Datatypes

German identity card number (Personalausweis)

ID depersonalausweis

DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifier

Serial number (Ausweisnummer) of a German identity card (Personalausweis). Cards issued since 1 November 2010 have nine characters: a four-character code of the issuing authority and a five-character random number, from the digits and the consonants C, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, R, T, V, W, X, Y and Z (0 is no longer used since November 2021). Microsoft Purview expects the first character to be L, M, N, P, R, T, V, W, X or Y; in the machine-readable zone a check digit follows. Cards issued from April 1987 to October 2010 have a nine-digit number and a check digit. The cards are produced by the Bundesdruckerei and issued by local registration offices and missions abroad.

Categories
Personally identifiable information, Person related
Countries
Germany
Languages
Common to most languages
W3C DPV
pd:OfficialID
Google DLP
GERMANY_IDENTITY_CARD_NUMBER
Presidio
DE_ID_CARD
Microsoft Purview
Germany identity card number, EU Social Security Number (SSN) or Equivalent ID, EU social security number or equivalent identification, EU national identification number
Quality
100/100
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
Amazon Macie, Azure AI Language PII detection, Databricks Unity Catalog data classification, Google Cloud Sensitive Data Protection (DLP), IBM Security Guardium Analyzer, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Nightfall AI, Microsoft Presidio, Snowflake sensitive data classification

Regular expression

^(?:[LMNPRTVWXY][0-9CFGHJKLMNPRTVWXYZ]{8}\d?D?|\d{10})$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
LF5HT23N4Synthetic number in the format used since 2010
TGP2M723J5Synthetic number with its machine-readable zone check digit
5259324215Synthetic number in the format used until 2010, with its check digit
CJ383NJ2P invalidPassport numbers start with C, F, G, H, J or K
525932421501 invalidTwelve digits

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
GermanPersonalausweisnummer
RussianНомер удостоверения личности Германии (Personalausweis)Серийный номер немецкого удостоверения личности - с ноября 2010 года девять букв и цифр, до этого девять цифр и контрольная цифра.

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