2 000 000 Mark Arbeitgeber-Vereinigung

Issued by the Employers' Association for Düsseldorf and its surrounding region during the hyperinflation of 1923, this is Notgeld in its most functional form — emergency wages rather than commemorative novelty. By mid-1923, municipal and private issuers across the Rhineland were printing their own denominations simply to pay workers on a weekly or even daily basis, since Reichsbank notes were depreciating faster than they could be distributed. An employers' association issuing its own scrip was not unusual; the legal framework for such emergency currency had effectively collapsed under the weight of circumstance.

The Düsseldorf area was under French and Belgian occupation at the time, adding a layer of administrative complexity to an already chaotic monetary situation.