2 Mark

Partenkirchen issued its own emergency currency in 1921 as part of the broader Notgeld wave that flooded Weimar Germany when coin shortages and rampant inflation made official small denominations effectively useless. The Marktgemeinde — a market municipality, not a full Stadt — had the legal standing to issue such notes under the permissive emergency provisions of the period, though the quantity and duration of local issues varied enormously from town to town.

J. Adolf Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu was a regional printer handling Notgeld commissions for several Bavarian communities during this period. The reference suffix variants (.1-4/6) indicate at least four distinct printings or sub-types within this denomination, worth examining carefully for paper stock and typographic differences.