Featured ANYONE SPEAK GERMAN? 1932 VICTORIA ZU BERLIN PAPERWORK - TRAVEL PAPERS?

A friend found this in a storage unit he won at auction. I think it might be papers allowing the person to travel from Victoria to Berlin?
But trying to translate parts or if - I typed allgemeine - and got something about the ss division!!

Then when I put ALLGEMEINE VERSICHERUNGS-BEDINGUNGEN - It came out as insurance!?

So can someone tell me what I have - and is it valuable?!

Thanks all

 

I think it's an insurance certificate. (Don't know what it is with Germans and insurance certificates but we still have my great-grandmother's lying around.)

https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/victoria-group

Debora

 

I believe it's a life insurance policy...

victoria zu berlin

 

The wording in the fine print seems to cover not only death but the loss of various body parts - what we would call death or dismemberment. "Disability"

 

On the front

fur Tod = For Death
fur Invaliditat = for Disability
an Tagegeld = daily allowance.

 

good luck collecting on that! sorry couldn't help myself

 

It is ..as I understand lifelong train and steamship accident travel insurance

 

So it is, Bobsyouruncle!

 

Reading it reminded me of the German love for portmanteau words. No language I know has such an affinity for sesquipedalian polysyllabics.
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Didn't include air ship accidents did it? Just before Hindenburg crashed soon after this, no?

 

Does it have any value? How would you look that up?

 

Probably not much, except to a descendant, or a collector of things related to the issuing company. If you can find either.

 

Insurance Ephemera on eBay is a start...

 

Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften certainly comes into play in this situation

 

Ephemera was the word I was looking for!

 

And so many words to describe something as precisely as possible, although Dutch is very close.
I remember a study into the amount of pages of books published in all Germanic languages. A book is thickest in German, the same book is thinnest in English.

 

This insurance is hilarious, its almost an insurance against the perils of modern times.

It includes not only trains and steamships but also motorized taxis and buses (excludes horse drawn ones), and elevators.
The fine print even states that injuries from a fall because the bus took a turn to quickly is not covered, the bus has to have an accident.

(but sadly air travel is not included, I think that would make it more valuable, there are many airship memorabilia collectors)

Edit: I found out that according to Wikipedia, the last horse drawn omnibus in Berlin was in 1920, so the insurance covered most if not all public transport.

 

So, in other words, it covered everything but the one thing everyone in Germany should have begun worrying about in 1932.

Debora

 

In those days, air travel was risky and crazy expensive, so odds were the it was too risky for the insurance company to consider covering.(LOL)

 

Did anyone else notice that this policy was issued to cover an 8 year old?