Facsimile of a Dehomag D11 census punch card

Identifier
irn521589
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.48.4
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn521589

Extent and Medium

overall: Height: 5.625 inches (14.288 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm)

Archival History

The punch card was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the Technische Sammlungen Dresden.

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Technische Sammlungen Dresden

Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Scope and Content

Facsimile of punch card used in the 1933 German census. This punch card was used with a Dehomag 11 tabulating system. which was the type used for processing results of the 1933 and 1939 German census during the Nazi regime (1933-1945). Dehomag [Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen] was a German based subsidiary of the US company, IBM. The Hollerith machine was a punch-card system consisting of three components, a punching machine [1990.48.3] that transmitted information onto punch cards, a sorting machine [1990.48.2] that arranged the punch cards by categories, and the tabulating machine [1990.48.1] that computed the results.

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Black and white photo reproduction of an unused, rectangular, stiff, white paper punch card with 1 angled corner and printed data. There is German text along the edges and repeated columns of numbers, 0-9, across the middle. Each column is identified by a number, 1-60, at the top and bottom. There are 28 categories of personal identification information along one long edge; such as residential district, age, religion, occupation, and number of children.

Corporate Bodies

  • Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft m.b.H.

Subjects

  • Germany--Statistical services--History--20th century.
  • Calculators.
  • Germany--Census--History--20th century.
  • Population research--Germany--History--20th century.
  • Census--Data processing--Germany--20th century.
  • Punched card systems.
  • Tabulating machines--Germany--Lichterfelde (Berlin)

Genre

  • Object
  • Tools and Equipment
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