I am now a naturalized American, but I was born in West Germany in 1969. My birth certificate states that I was born "Statenloss" (Stateless). My mother's side of the family had been in Germany for at least 2 Generations by the time of my birth. What would my status as a German citizen have been? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

I am now a naturalized American, but I was born in West Germany in 1969. My birth certificate states that I was born "Statenloss" (Stateless). My mother's side of the family had been in Germany for at least 2 Generations by the time of my birth. What would my status as a German citizen have been?

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FatherStorm

More background. It appears my great great grandfather fled the Russian revolution to Germany after the death of the czar. There is some talk that he was a German warden for the czar but we have no evidence directly of that.