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Page 2 is a recap of all wild game seasons in Nazi Germany for the year on the back of page 1. Pages 3-4 and 5-6 are printed on lightweight paper pasted into the center of the license and are very rare extensions by the Police President of Kiel through 31 March 1945!

The back side of both extensions has four stamped Receipt of Payment Prussian state police stamps attached and certified.

INTERESTING FAMILY

The father of Obergefreiter Kieseritzky was a Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross recipient, Kriegsmarine Admiral Gustav Kieseritzky (also a recipient of the German Cross in Gold). Kieseritzky Sr. was killed on 19 November 1943 during the Kerch–Eltigen Operation on the Kerch Peninsula in the east of Crimea, while he was the Commanding Admiral in the Black Sea . He was 50 years old at the time of his death and was buried at the German military cemetery at Simferopol.

AN ORIGINAL 1942 INLÄNDER-JAHRESJAGDSCHEIN WITH TWO WAR-TIME EXTENSIONS ISSUED BY THE KIEL POLICE

This is standard German Inländer-Jahresjagdschein or Domestic Hunting License number 2/42 issued by the Landrat of Franzburg-Barth, Germany on 25 March 1942 to 21 year old Luftwaffe Obergefreiter Gustav Kieseritzky.

Gustav Paul Alexander Kieseritzky (born 11 July 1921 in Stettin) joined the service in January 1940, became an Officer on 1 February 1943, trained as a pilot and from 1944 onwards he was a Nachtjäger in der Reichsverteidigung (Night Fighter Pilot Defending the Reich). He crashed on 6 November 1944, was badly hurt and was in and out of military hospitals until September 1945. After the war he studied law and worked in various positions for the city of Kiel, Germany and the provincial government. He married in 1956 and had two sons, the oldest named Gustav as well.

Our 4-1/8 x 11-5/8 inch (folds to 4-1/8 by just over 5-¾ inches) unusual eight-page hunting license is printed on the typical reinforced cardstock with a yellow background and still has the original ID photo of Kieseritzky attached to it with three staples.

Page 1 is dated 25 March 1942 and identifies Gustav Kieseritzky as a resident of Pütnitz (in northern Germany on the Baltic coast), and bears the official purple Nazi stamp and his signature. The ID photo shows Kieseritzky in his early Luftwaffe uniform and Gefreiter collar tabs.

Page 7 is also on white and provides hunting rules as well as the cost for the license and other benefits. Included in the 60.50 Reichsmark (US $24!) cost of the license was an annual membership in the Deutsche Jägerschaft, a subscription to its magazine and membership in the German Handgun Research Center. Page 8 with a yellow background consists mainly of gun safety information to be observed during the hunt.

Gustav Kieseritzky extended his hunting license at the main police office in the city of Kiel for the 1943-1944 and the 1944-45 hunting season and that is why the two tan double-sided sheet extensions are pasted between pages 2 and 3 of his original Nazi hunting license. Note the Preussen Staatliche Polizei dues stamps overstamped with Nazi eagle and swastika of the Kiel police.