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1 Mark Wiesa; Officer PoW Camp
| Issuer | Offizier-Gefangenen-Lager Wiesa bei Annaberg |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Currency | Papiermark (1914-1923) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on yellow underprint, with a decorative guilloche border running along all four edges. The Saxon coat of arms — a crowned oval shield with diagonal barry pattern — appears in an oval vignette at left, flanked by the numeral "1" in the upper corners. The text block at right carries the full camp ordinance in black Gothic script, with the denomination EINE MARK set in bold display type at center; two manuscript signatures appear below the text alongside a red circular handstamp of the camp commandant. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 OFFIZIER-GEFANGENEN-LAGER WIESA BEI ANNABERG Der Kriegsgefangene, Inhaber dieses Gutscheines, erhält bei seiner Entlassung nach der Heimat oder Ueberweisung in ein anderes Lager gegen Rückgabe den Betrag von EINE MARK von der Verwaltung für Gefangenengeld des Offizier-Gefangenenlagers Wiesa bei Annaberg ausbezahlt. Der Schein gilt nur innerhalb des Lagers. Postoffizier Leutnant Wiesa bei Annaberg, 1. Januar 1916. Kommandant Rittmeister JOHANNES PÄSLER DRESDEN-N. (Translation: Officer prisoner of war camp Wiesa near Annaberg. The prisoner of war, holder of this voucher, receives upon his release to the homeland or transfer to another camp upon return, the amount of one mark paid by the administration for prisoner money of the officer prisoner of war camp Wiesa near Annaberg. The note is valid only inside the camp. Postal Officer. Lieutenant. Wiesa near Annaberg, January 1, 1916. Commandant. Cavalry Captain) |
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Wiesa bei Annaberg was a small Saxon camp holding captured Allied officers during the First World War — a distinct administrative category from enlisted prisoner camps, with officers entitled under the Hague Conventions to separate accommodation and, critically, not compelled to work. The camp's own scrip filled the gap left by a prohibition on circulating Reichsmark notes inside the wire, a policy applied across German PoW facilities from around 1916 to prevent currency leaking back into civilian hands.
Johannes Pässler of Dresden produced the printing. The handstamp was the sole security measure — straightforward to fake, but camp scrip fraud was more a theoretical concern than a documented problem at facilities this size.