Access control system

A system with at least one access control device (1) with a reading device (4) for data carriers (8) upon which identification details are stored for those assigned authorized access, and with a database (9), in which a photograph of the user of the data carrier (8), together with the identification details on the data carrier (8), is stored, characterized by at least one camera (7), at an access control device (1), which takes digitized photographs of the users of the access control device (1), which are stored, together with the identification details, in a database (9), as well as at least one terminal having a screen (12), communicating with the database (9), operable by an official (15), by means of which the identification details on the data carrier (8) are retrievable, and to which the stored photograph of the user of the data carrier (8) taken by the camera (7) during access via the access control device (1), together with the corresponding identification details, is transmissible for visual comparison with the user (16) of the data carrier (8) being checked.