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Document: DEU-FO-02001

Title:

FÜHRERSCHEIN ('D')

Issuing Country:

DEU - Germany • BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND •

Document Category:

F - Driving licence

Document type:

O - ordinary document

Document version number:

02001

First issued on:

01/01/1999

Not valid after:

19/01/2026

Valid:

no

Legal status / main purpose:

Driving licence

Overall construction:

card

Format width (mm):

86

Format height (mm):

54

Number of pages:

First card model driving licence

Image 100792 of Recto - identity

Security features:

Printing technique

Image 100794 of Printing technique

Security features:

Printing technique

Image 100796 of Printing technique
OVI

Security features:

Printing technique

Image 100797 of Printing technique

Security features:

Personal data

Image 100798 of Personal data
Laser engraving with tactile features

Security features:

Facial image

Photo integration technique:

laser engraving

Security features:

OVD (optically variable device)

OVD (optically variable device):

Kinegram®

OVD description:

TKO film

Image 100799 of OVD (optically variable device)
Optically variable features of TKO film

Security features:

UV feature

UV feature:

fluorescent overprint (invisible under normal light)

Image 100800 of UV feature
Image under UV light

Security features:

UV feature

UV feature:

fluorescent ink

Security features:

UV feature

UV feature:

fluorescent fibres

Image 100793 of Verso

Security features:

Substrate

Top left: hand-writeable infill area consisting of paper, printed with the same design as the card

Security features:

Printing technique

Image 100801 of Printing technique

Security features:

Personal data

Laser-engraving, except for entries in the infill area (items 13. and 14.), which are either handwritten or stamped

Security features:

OVD (optically variable device)

OVD (optically variable device):

hologram

OVD description:

embedded holographic stripe

Image 100802 of OVD (optically variable device)
holographic stripe
Image 100803 of OVD (optically variable device)
holographic stripe - top: under incident light; bottom: by transmitted light

Security features:

OVD (optically variable device)

Image 100804 of OVD (optically variable device)
CLI: traffic signs/part of driving licence number

Security features:

UV feature

UV feature:

fluorescent ink

Image 100805 of UV feature
Image under UV light

Security features:

UV feature

Remark:

infill area substrate --> yellow

DEUThis information is supplied to you by the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union. It has been selected and compiled by document experts in Germany • BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND •
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