1 Mark

Rinteln is a small town on the Weser in Lower Saxony, and this 1920 emergency issue is one of hundreds of German municipal Notgeld pieces produced when the post-WWI coin shortage made small-denomination transactions genuinely unworkable. The Edler & Krische firm in Hanover was a prolific printer of such material — they handled commissions from numerous Niedersachsen municipalities during this period, which makes attributing their work straightforward when the printer's imprint survives.

Rudolf Hillebrecht is the more interesting name here. He later became Hanover's chief city planner and oversaw the postwar reconstruction of the bombed city center from 1948 onward — a significant figure, though in 1920 he was working as a commercial designer. The two signatories, Neumann and Dr. Wachmuth, were municipal officials whose authorization gave the scrip its local legal standing.