1 000 000 Mark Oberamt Riedlingen

Riedlingen is a small market town on the upper Danube in Württemberg, and its Oberamtssparkasse — the district savings bank tied to the administrative office — was among hundreds of local German institutions forced to issue emergency currency during the hyperinflation of 1923. By the time million-mark denominations were being printed at the district level, the Reichsbank had effectively lost control of the money supply; local authorities were authorized, then simply compelled, to fill the gap themselves. The Oberamt system in Württemberg gave these notes a degree of institutional legitimacy that purely municipal issues lacked.

Riedlingen's notgeld of this period is not especially rare among collectors of Württemberg hyperinflation material, but regional coverage in major catalogs remains uneven.