History on how I got my hands on this: Visited Budapest and an old dude with his antique shop had many war time relics. Saw this and was very intrigued, since I grew up in Asia. So excited me bought this without the realization of how this could be from whom suffered or passed due to war. First of all, I'm sorry if this is offending. I do not think it's appropriate to profit off of something that could only mean suffering for others. But I already bought it. So might as well get to know more about it and maybe even connect this piece back to its remaining family. I'd take any information I could get about this. Thanks in advance! Ps: I'm only posting this here because I read mentions of Vienna. Oh and I've tried to post on r/wien but got my post removed without a reason mentioned anywhere. Thanks!

by myDeliciousNeck666

13 comments

  1. I think you should try to reach out to a museum (maybe someone with better knowledge could help here). This is a pretty cool find and they may be interested in it.

  2. Don’t worry, it’s nothing bad. It’s basically just an official Curriculum Vitae. It list things like name, address, place of birth etc. Also vocational training and previous occupations.

  4. You should give it to a museum or maybe the DÖW. The other post probably got removed because Swastikas are illegal to show in Austria. Because of that you should be careful and not wave it around in public.

  5. The depiction of national-socialist symbols is in general – with exemptions – considered a criminal offense in Austria and Germany. So don’t be surprised that the post was deleted.

    What you have is a work book in the form in which it was obligatory for every employee/worker in the German Reich since 1935 and became obligatory in Austria from march 1938 upon integration into the German Reich. The Reich was transforming into a planned economy in preparation of war and the work books were a tool to monitor and steer the available workforce into sectors that were deemed important by the regime.

    Before 1935, workbooks were obligatory for non-adult trainees / workers and were meant to protect them from unfair treatment. An employer was prohibited to employ non-adults without a workbook.

  6. At least I can tell you what the book says as far as I am able to read it.

    I can not read the name of the Person correctly I red “Obuarlo Janeiek” – thats not correct for sure

    Born: 17 Sept. 1925 in Vienna / Deutsches Reich
    (Interesting because it says “Deutsches Reich” and “Wien” because when Germany occupied Austria, Vienna was called “Ostmark” as far as I know)

    Berufsausbildung (Vocational training) was Commercial Employee in a machine factory (Maschinenfabrik) in vienna (sadly cannot read the name from the factory) but it seems like he was there as a “Lehrling” (apprentice).

    The Stamp on the last Picture is from “Arbeitsamt Wien” (Employment Office Vienna)

  8. If you ever post a picture again, redact the swastika. In Austria it is a criminal offense to show it. If this gets taken down you know why, and can or may repost it with the symbols blurred or blackened out.

  9. I’ll have to look where we put it but I have one of those from my great-grandmother.

    Little fun fact – at least it’s like this in “my” book – they continued to use them after the war and the fall of the regime. She got entries in there a few years after ‘45 from her employer.

    Here is the Wikipedia article to the “Arbeitsbuch – [Employment record book](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_record_book)”.
    It’s basically a little booklet they wrote down where and what the person did work.

    This person was “Kaufm. angestellter” – „commercial Clark“, not married and was born and lived in Vienna.

  10. It was called an “Arbeitsbuch” (working book) and was mandatory for every working age citizen.

    Basically a state issued Curriculum. It contains personal data like name, adress, nationality, vocational training and previous employers. Back then, if you want to work at a company you had to show this book to your new employer and you needed permission from the former employer.

    Other countries like Slovenia used such books up until the 2000s.

  11. Thank you all for replying! I’m glad to have found more knowledge regarding this relic. Very interesting but I hope I can get in contact with the family. I’ll see what I can do!

  12. https://preview.redd.it/e5wi0umbafve1.png?width=830&format=png&auto=webp&s=314f1d74c27d87a7d7f90d442a2daf57ab2b4091

    [https://maps.app.goo.gl/kiJ1XGegEvYjmsN96](https://maps.app.goo.gl/kiJ1XGegEvYjmsN96)

    just in case you are interested; this is the exact part of the building from the home address. in vienna we have some bs system where a single street number can stretch over multiple blocks, or sometimes even streets and those subsections of one or multiple building/s, called ‘Stiegen’ (referring to different staircases per entrance, which are usually not connected indoors), are the often seen as second number in addresses. so street number 45 is one big building with a total of 28 ‘Stiegen’, 2 refers to the floor number (exactly above the steel wire from the street lighting) and 16 to the apartment number

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