The identification document and method for identifying a person

The invention relates to an identification document (100) to identify an individual with a document body (101) having a surface (103) having a surface region (103a) which is acted upon by a biometric feature of the person, a physical structure (105) which in the document body (101) is embedded below the surface area (103a), a transceiver structure (107a, 107b) which is formed in the document body (101) and designed to transmit a stimulation signal in the direction of the surface region (103a) to to obtain a light reflected on the biometric feature of the person response signal of the physical structure (105) depends, and to assign a processor (109) which is designed, the person from the reflected response signal the identification document (100).