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1000 Mark Pöge Elektricitäts A.G.
| Issuer | Pöge Elektricitäts-Aktiengesellschaft, Chemnitz |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Printer | Richard Müller, Chemnitz, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Tausend Mark Dieser an Lohnzahlungsstatt ausgegebene, nicht zum allgemeinen Umlauf, sondern nur zur einmaligen Verwendung an Zahlungsstatt bestimmte Gutschein über 1000 Mark wird bis 1. November 1922 von den hiesigen Banken und an der Hauptkasse der Pöge-Elektricitäts-Aktiengesellschaft Chemnitz, Oderstr. 52, in bar eingelöst. Chemnitz, 11. September 1922 Pöge Elektricitäts-Aktiengesellschaft |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in grey-green on plain paper, with the same fine geometric cross-pattern guilloche underprint as the obverse, enclosed within an identical ornamental chain border. A large central circular guilloche rosette in purple-violet dominates the field, with radiating starburst lathe-work at its core, and the numerals '1000' arranged in large oval digits above and below the medallion. The printer's imprint 'Richard Müller, Chemnitz' appears in small type at the lower centre margin; a partial purple cancellation stamp is visible at the right edge. |
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Pöge Elektricitäts-Aktiengesellschaft was one of the more substantial electrical manufacturing firms in Saxony during the early Weimar period, producing motors and transformers in Chemnitz — a city so densely industrialized it was sometimes called the "Saxon Manchester." The 1922 hyperinflationary spiral forced thousands of German companies, municipalities, and institutions to issue their own emergency currency (Notgeld) simply to make payroll, as the Reichsbank could not print fast enough to keep denominations useful.
Richard Müller was a Chemnitz-based printer who handled a number of local corporate Notgeld issues from this period. The note is a private corporate scrip, redeemable only through the issuing firm — not a banking instrument in any formal sense.