Need help on WW2 German ration card

I bought a sheet of 4 weekly German ration cards for bread, meat, and margarine. They are for late November to early December, 1944. Can someone read the German on these coupons and tell me where they were issued?

I only show the first weekly coupon, the rest are identical except for the dates and the green number. They are connected 4,3,2,1.

Thanks,
Paul

 

Hagenau-Alsaß....I believe this is Whermact issue...

 

It says;

Name:.........
Birthplace:.....
Adress:.....

Also it says: Für [..]Arbeiter. [ maybe schwere/hardworker? ]

So for a worker, I doubt it's for the wehrmacht.

 

I think "Schwerarbeiter" means a worker doing heavy manual work who would consequently receive a higher ration allowance.

Regards

Richie

 

They are Alsacian , from the town of Hagenau (annexed to Germany during the war , nowadays in France) .

Hagenau was liberated twice , first on december 11th 1944 , but it was evacuated during the Battle of the Bulge and reocuupied only in March 1945 after the fall of the pocket of Colmar.




Archeographe - le Webzine du Patrimoine - La double libération de Haguenau. Hiver 1944-45. Témoignages de soldats américains.





They are rations for heavy tasks workers (Schwerarbeiter) and there are coupons for meat (Fleish), bread 'Brot) and Margarine. 50g s is about half a Mc Donald burger, so it's not much for an adult worker. Women and children recieved even less

 

heavy tasks workers is what I meant

 

Thinking about it I could eat the whole weekly ratio in a day.

After a closer check I found something really interesting: This card expired on Dec 12th 1944 and the city was liberated the day before (so it waS the last card issued before the first liberation) I suppose they were reisusied during the winter of 1945 and they were later under French rule from 1945 to 1949 when these cards were abolished. Of course the French version was in French and had no birdie on it .
In away these coupons were saved by the assault on the city. The man probalby stayed home during the combats and could not used his last coupons because the shops were closed and probably empty anyway.