Help translating German > English

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1. 1. Last name
   2. First name
   3. Birthday, month, year
   4. Birth city
   5. Citizenship
   6. Religion
   7. Marital status
   8. Job
   9. Parents, father, mother

   I suck at reading older handwriting so can’t help with that.

2. Georg Ruf, born 4.4.1895 in Schöneberg, Kreis Günzburg in Swabia (State of Bavaria nowadays).

   Father: Josef Ruf

   Mother: Monika? (Ulrike?) Ruf, born Liegel(?), died 1913

   What else do you need?

3. Family name – Ruf

   First names – Georg

   Birth day, month, year – 4.4.1895

   Birthplace – Schöneberg

   Administrative district […] – Günzburg/Swabia

   Citizenship – German-Reich [sic on the “-“]

   Religion – Gtls. [That’s definitely how it reads to me, and the only possible meaning I can come up with is “gottlos” which literally means “godless” and is all kinds of hilarious. I’ve never seen that.]

   Marital status – married

   Occupation – trained – Building fitter

   Occupation – actual – Res.[? not sure what that abbreviates] train driver

   Father – Josef Ruf

   Occupation – Untrained labourer

   Mother – Monika Ruf

   née – possibly Siegel? The corrections don’t make it easy

   died in 1913