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Not everyone has a Personalausweis.

• mschuster91 8y ago
  Nearly all Germans do have one (yes, I know, having a passport is sufficient... but, anecdata, never met anyone with only a passport), and iirc the Elektronischer Aufenthaltstitel required for non-German residents of Germany has the same functions. It's a perfect model of "the tech would be there but government is incompetent/corrupt and so it is not freely available for the benefit of citizens".