Luger Noord
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| Born | Luger Noord 21 May 1968 |
| Other names | Lugertje |
| Occupation | Civil documentation worker |
| Era | Vriend Era |
| Organization | Stichting Noord Registratiebureau |
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Father | Hendrik van Noord |
| Relatives | Walter Noord (brother) |
| Family | Noord family |
Luger Noord (born 21 May 1968 in Rotterdam, Netherlands), also known as Lugertje, is a Dutch civil documentation worker and member of the Noord family. He works for the Stichting Noord Registratiebureau, where he handles birth certificates, registry files, document checks, and other civil records. He is the son of Hendrik van Noord and the brother of Walter Noord.
Early life
Luger Noord was born on 21 May 1968 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He grew up with his brother Walter Noord. As a child, Luger was troublesome and often followed Walter into petty trouble around the neighbourhood.
Luger and Walter became known for a game called Birth Certificate. They went to houses, asked residents to show their birth certificates, tore the papers apart, and ran away. The game caused complaints from local residents and became one of the first signs of their interest in civil papers.
At school, Luger had a blunt way of speaking. He argued with teachers when instructions were unclear and often refused to change his answer once he thought it was correct. He paid more attention to written papers than to class discussion. He also had a habit of checking names and dates on school forms.
As a teenager, Luger became more reserved, but he stayed difficult to manage. He spent much of his free time with Walter Noord and often went with him through parts of Rotterdam and Vriendendam. By the early 1980s, the two were already known for bothering residents and asking about birth certificates in a way that caused complaints.
In 1984, Luger was arrested once in Vriendendam after refusing to leave a municipal registry office during an argument over a birth certificate form. He had entered the office with Walter and questioned the staff about the wording on the form. The argument continued after he was told to leave. He stayed at the counter, kept asking for the document to be shown again, and was removed by local police. He was released after questioning. After the incident, Luger kept a lower profile but still spent time around registry offices and municipal buildings. He remained interested in certificates, official stamps, and the way civil records were handled. His teenage years gave him a reputation as stubborn, dry in speech, and hard to move once he had fixed his attention on a document.
Career
Luger Noord began his career in 1986 at the civil registry section of the municipal administration in Rotterdam. He worked as a junior clerk in an office that processed requests for civil documents. His work covered birth record searches, certificate copies, registry extracts, and the preparation of files for senior staff. The position gave him regular contact with population records and the paperwork used by municipal offices.
In 1988, Noord moved to Vriendendam and took a clerical position at the local registry office. He worked between the public counter and the records room. At the counter, he processed requests for copies of birth certificates and other civil documents. In the records room, he helped prepare registry folders, sort older paper files, and check whether file numbers matched the names used in municipal records. The work also brought him into contact with family registration files, address records, and identity paperwork used by local authorities.
Between 1989 and 1991, Noord worked mainly with older birth records in Vriendendam. He helped locate missing certificate copies, checked registry references, and prepared files for review when residents requested older documents. His work stayed close to birth certificates and civil status papers, which later became the main field of the Stichting Noord Registratiebureau.
Stichting Noord Registratiebureau
In 1991, Walter Noord founded the Stichting Noord Registratiebureau. Luger Noord joined the organization in the same year as a civil documentation worker. His first work at the bureau involved taking in certificate material, sorting registry copies, and preparing files for document review. The bureau worked with people who needed civil records checked, organized, or compared with older registry material.
During the early 1990s, Noord helped build the bureau's filing system in Vriendendam. He worked on birth certificate folders, family registry files, and document requests sent to the bureau by residents. He also helped arrange older civil papers by family name and registry number. This gave the bureau a clearer archive for later document checks.
In 1996, Noord became a registry file clerk at the bureau. His work became more focused on cases where birth records had missing entries, unclear names, or conflicting dates. He prepared files before review by senior staff and wrote short file notes for internal use. These notes covered the source of a document, the registry number, and the part of the file that needed further checking.
From 2001, Noord worked on the bureau's certificate review desk. This part of the bureau handled requests involving birth certificates, family records, and older municipal extracts. Noord reviewed copies sent to the bureau and compared them with the bureau's own archive. When a file was incomplete, he prepared a request for more material from the person or office that had submitted it.
In 2004, Noord became a senior file worker at the Stichting Noord Registratiebureau. His work covered older birth certificate material, family registry folders, and civil record copies from Rotterdam and Vriendendam. He also trained newer clerks in the bureau's filing system and helped maintain the archive used for document checks.
During the Vriend Era, Noord remained part of the bureau's administrative staff. His work continued to deal with birth certificates, registry references, family files, and civil documentation. He stayed in the paperwork side of the Noord family and worked under the wider administrative structure created by Walter Noord.