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2 000 000 Mark Mechanische Schuhfabrik R. Dorndorf
| Issuer | Mechanische Schuhfabrik R. Dorndorf, Breslau |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld on cream-coloured paper with a fine guilloche underprint in olive-gold. The note is framed by a dark blue interlaced geometric border, with the issuer's name 'Mechanische Schuhfabrik R. Dorndorf, Breslau' set in bold letterpress across the top. The denomination 'Zwei Millionen Mark' is printed in large bold type at centre, below which redemption conditions, a retail face value of 2 100 000 Mark, series letter, serial number, date, and a manuscript signature of the issuer appear. A narrow olive-gold coupon stub is visible at the right edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | Mechanische Schuhfabrik R. Dorndorf, Breslau Dieser Gutschein über Zwei Millionen Mark wird an unserer Fabrikkasse, Neukircher Weg, eingelöst. Zahlwert bei Einkäufen in unseren Detailgeschäften 2 100 000 Mark Serie B Breslau, 20. August 1923 Mechanische Schuhfabrik R. Dorndorf Der Aufruf erfolgt 4 Wochen nach Bekanntmachung im Breslauer General-Anzeiger Flemming-Wiskott AG, Glogau, Berlin, Breslau. |
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Dorndorf was one of Germany's larger shoe manufacturers, with factories across Silesia. Like thousands of German industrial firms in 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to pay workers when the Reichsbank could no longer supply enough physical banknotes to meet payroll demand during the hyperinflationary collapse. These notes were obligations of the issuing company, not the state, and were theoretically redeemable at the factory.
Flemming & Wiskott, with operations across Glogau, Berlin, and Breslau, printed enormous volumes of late-inflation Notgeld for Silesian firms that year. The 2,000,000 Mark denomination places this firmly in the August–September 1923 window, when that figure represented a day's wage or less.