Shortly before the nationwide boycott of Jewish businesses on 1 April, large numbers of people were arrested in Regensburg and other German cities. The factory owner Alfred Binswanger was among those taken into custody on 30 March 1933. This pass, which was issued to his wife Lina the next day, entitled her to visit him in the prison and talk "for ten minutes under supervision."

The SS released the seventy-three year-old the same day due to his age. On 11 April, nearly two weeks later, Binswanger wrote in a report that ten to fifteen of the 124 people arrested were still being held in prison.

Binswanger came from a family of liqueur producers and ran their factory in Regensburg. He died in November 1933, three years before the family was forced to sell the successful company.

Franziska Bogdanov

Visitor‘s pass

Frau Binswanger
is hereby granted permission to speak to the police prisoner
Alfred Binswanger
for ten minutes under the supervision of a prison official.

Regensburg, 31 March 1933
Police Department
J.A.