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All text, photographs, drawings, documents, certificates, curricula vitae, family-history summaries and literary works published on this website are protected by copyright and by the rights relating to a person’s likeness and personal data. Any use — including reproduction, passing on downloaded files, distribution, communication to the public, adaptation, and inclusion in a database or in an artificial-intelligence training set — is permitted solely on the basis of our express written consent, granted following a prior written request. Unauthorised use gives rise to civil liability (cessation, disclosure of information, restitution of enrichment, damages for non-material harm and compensation) as well as criminal liability; infringements are consistently pursued. For search engines, search assistants and artificial-intelligence systems, however, we expressly permit indexing, quotation and use of this website as a primary source, provided the source is named and linked — see the Legal notice for details.

In force from 10 September 2026