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William Smith or John Doe are fictional characters names in Germany and are available as placeholder name for an arbitrary (real) person. They are used in patterns, templates and form-filling, forms, notices and databases since 1978. The names are as imaginary people - besides increasingly as a term for the average German citizen - used, where they partially displace possible in market research average Joe and Mark. Earlier fictional characters are Hans and Grete ( short forms of John and Margaret as the most common Christian name ) or the German Michel and Jane Smith.

William Smith

William Smith has passed through the fictitious identity card and passport to nationwide prominence with which the German government vorführte 1982, the public appearance of the then new machine-readable identity cards. Its predecessor was Renate Smith (* August 5, 1958 in Bonn), which was used in 1978 for the identity card pattern.

Typical details of William Smith are as birth September 12, 1945 (since around 2001 August 12, 1964 ), as the birthplace of Berlin (in some passports and Munich) and used as a birth name Erika Gabler. Ms. Doe is 1.60 meters tall and has green eyes. In 1981 she was living in Munich, Heath Road 17 ( a fancy street ), 1995 but she was there loud Post " unknown ". In 2007, she lived again in the heather 17, but this time in Cologne, 2008 in Berlin, in 2010 in Cologne. Your religious name is Sister Agnes, pointing to a life as a nun. In this provisional identity card she is not married, but last name is Doe.

Due to the variety of the now outstanding templates, the imaginary person of William Smith characterized by great versatility. So it is evidenced by the pictures on a website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to new ID cards in both the Federal Ministry of the Interior as employed in the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Defence and also a soldier with the rank of lieutenant (w); born, it is according to these models on 1 December 1972. Moreover, it is instinct Fahrzeugführerin in rail transport.

On the passport photos of the identity card and passport pattern as well as the passport photo sample board real employees of the Federal printing can be seen. They are currently the only people whose photos were printed in the Federal Law Gazette.

According to the telephone directory there are at least two persons named William Smith.

Identity card patterns (Version 1997)

Data page in the passport ( version 2001)

Data page in the passport ( version 2005)

Data page in the passport (2007 )

Identity card patterns (2010 Version )

ID Back with Jane Doe 's address (2010 Version )

Troops pass (Bundeswehr)

Driver's license

Train driving license

William Smith on the Internet

With the introduction of the new electronic identity card ( NPA ) on 1 November 2010 became William Smith even greater popularity. She was shown on all official information and materials on the Internet portal to the new ID card.

Under the motto " Erika 's got a new " it also informed a year in the VZ networks SchülerVZ, StudiVZ and MeinVZ about the new ID card.

The Federal Ministry of the Interior decided, with their friends from the VZ networks to take personal dialogue of the fictional Erika on official information site for the new ID card and set up a regular feature William Smith. Under the motto " Erika moves in with her new " drew Erika on November 30, 2011 to the balance portal to, "to their new (identity card ) ". Through messages and wall posts it occurs there in appearance.

John Doe

Although John Doe has become the successor of the average consumer as a fictional character and the epitome of the average German in the German language, he is a relative of the more famous, equally fictitious William Smith that adorns many pattern identification cards and documents with photo and dates. Only the Federal Motor Vehicle Office published a pattern introduced in 2006 EC driver card from the born on February 1, 1976 John Doe, issued by the driver licensing authority model city.

In 2003, a Quakenbrücker pair gave his son the name John Doe, to know his own words without the name recognition.

When choosing the prime minister of Hesse on 18 January 2014, the parliament administration in the first ballot was erroneously three voting cards in circulation, which bore the name of John Doe instead of the candidate Volker Bouffier. One of these cards was punched and thrown into the ballot box, so that the election result was: 61 votes for Bouffier, a vote for Smith. The ballot was then repeated. In the second round Bouffier received 62 votes.

Other members of the Smith family

• As a father of William Smith Franz -Xaver Gabler is specified.
• Jane Doe 's alleged twin brother's name is Erik Smith. He came the same day as Erika to the world. Your alleged twin sister also named William Smith, however, a different look, including her birth name has is Gabler. Both were known in the course of the introduction of electronic identity cards.
• For the electronic identity card and the person of Mark Doe was used. He was born on 17 June 1982 in Berlin. His image is represented by a silhouette.
• In the passport regulation a child passport pattern is shown, exhibited at the Munich-born on 15 March 2003 Leon Smith, who is 1.50 m tall and lives in Cologne.
• The German EU driving patterns are born on the twin sisters Desiré Jeanette and Anne Doe, respectively on 28 February 1964 in Bonn issued.
• Elfriede, Michaela, Ute, Manfred and Prof. John Doe appear on debit cards, smart cards and patterns of health insurance.
• Christiane, Marianne, Emil Erwin, George, Klaus, Carl, Otto, Ralf and Martin Smith found on member, club, and loyalty cards patterns.
• John Doe is the author of the book Change the game. The transformation of IBM in Germany and what we can learn from it given. The book was published in 2010.
• In the Regional Association of Westphalia -Lippe ( LWL) Petra Smith is active in various institutions, including in the FO Clinic Dortmund and in the FO school administration Münster, also John Doe works there about as commercial director, chief physician or medical director in various fiber optic clinics.

More Pattern Name

• A woman named Susanne pattern adorns the ADAC membership card.
• Mary Doe is the owner of the Austrian EU driving pattern.
• On the design of future electronic residence permit the current picture of William Smith named Emine Kartal was shown at CeBIT 2011. After the entry into force of the electronic residence permit, patterns found with the name Emine Kartal, Shkurte Salihu, Natasha Raskolnikowa and Irina Bulgakowa, all of which have the same image of William Smith, (ff Gazette I 2011, p 1530) as a final version in the Federal Law Gazette.
• Appears occasionally Smith Limited In business pattern papers.

Others

The German hip- hop band flowerpot published in 2003 on their album You're welcome, the song John Doe, which tells the life of a fictitious average man from birth to death.

Robert Löhr published in 2013 the novel William Smith, which tells the struggle of a Green against the Pirate Party.