Why does a smart card reader kill MacOS?

I need a smart card within a virtual machine on my Mac. The trouble is, every time I connect the reader, my MacOS stops working properly.
When the smart card reader is connected before the Mac is turned on, then I can't login: After entering the password, it hangs with the spinning color icon.
I can boot without the reader, though. If the reader is plugged in after boot, this happens:
Safari doesn't start up, all I see is the color spinner. Finder gets blocked as well while Safari is trying to start up (i.e. forever)
If I have a Terminal open, then I can "kill -9" the Safari process, which unblocks the Finder.
When I then try to shut down, it hangs with a white screen, and never properly finishes until power off.
How can I debug or solve this problem?
Thanks! Martin

It's a very common device (Omnikey 3121), which should be compatible. Nevertheless, I installed drivers from the manufactor's site to see if they make any difference. On reboot after driver installation I got a kernel panic within the HID drivers. Very strange.
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily(2.0)[994495B5-FB34-3DB5-B47A-D2A732E52F33]@0xffffff 7f811c1000->0xffffff7f81232fff
            dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleFDEKeyStore(28.30)[2A8A5F6B-0A7C-33A0-8E5B-4C10F646EC4F]@ 0xffffff7f811b6000
After reboot it seems to work fine, but I'll have to check some more.

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