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1 Mark Gewerkschaftsbund der Angestellten
| Issuer | Gewerkschaftsbund der Angestellten, Gau Groß-Hamburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Central colour vignette of the Erholungsheim Walsrode convalescent home (Lüneburger Heide), flanked by decorative blue-grey acanthus scroll panels left and right; Hamburg city arms in lower-left cartouche and an ornamental monogram vignette at lower right. Denomination '1 MARK' appears in white on purple panels at each upper corner beneath the heading 'GUTSCHEIN'. |
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| Reverse lettering | Wo Walo einst hat ein Kloster gegründet, Jetzt man Pulver- und Lederfabriken findet. Hartung & Co., Hamburg. |
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The Gewerkschaftsbund der Angestellten — the federation of white-collar employee unions — issued local emergency currency during the acute small-denomination coin shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar inflation years. The Gau Groß-Hamburg branch was one of several regional union bodies that resorted to producing their own Notgeld rather than wait for the Reichsbank to solve a problem it was visibly failing to solve. That a labor organization rather than a municipality or savings bank stands as issuer is genuinely uncommon among Hamburg-area Notgeld of this period.
Hartung & Co. in Hamburg handled a substantial volume of local emergency currency printing during 1921.