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25 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Dortmund (Stadt- und Landkreise Dortmund und Hörde) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Printer | Aachener Verlags u. Druckerei G.m.b.H, Germany |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is rendered in crimson and black on a fine wavy-line underprint ground, with large ornamental '25' numerals within circular cartouches at left and right, each inscribed 'MARK'. A central hexagonal vignette contains an engraved landscape scene dated '1813', with a Prussian Landwehr soldier standing before a gnarled oak tree, a church spire in the distance, and a ribbon banner bearing the Blücher quotation 'BLÜCHER: MEINE WESTFALEN, KERLS WIE EISEN!'. Four interlacing ribbon banners radiate diagonally from the corners, each carrying verses of a patriotic Westphalian poem in Kurrent script. A red six-pointed star ornament appears at top centre and bottom centre, and the designer's credit 'L. BALOWEHMANN' is inscribed within the vignette; the imprint 'West-Werbe-Dienst-Dortmund.' appears at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 MARK 1813 BLÜCHER: MEINE WESTFALEN, KERLS WIE EISEN! Behüt dich Gott, du rote Erde, du Land von Mitternd und Teut! Bis ich zu Staub und Asche werde, mein Herz sich ferner Heimat freut. Durchfahrts Rhein und Westfalens o grüß Dich, und Land der Letzten Stunde Land der Westfalen wie Marr, wie Deine Eichenstämme Dich begrust noch der blaffe Hund im Sterben; Hand der Marr, mein Herz sich ferner Heimat traut. West-Werbe-Dienst-Dortmund. |
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Dortmund's municipal government, along with the rural district of Hörde, issued this 25 Mark note under the emergency currency provisions that proliferated across German municipalities after the Reichsbank's printing capacity became structurally inadequate for the accelerating inflation of 1922. The joint issuing authority — Stadt- und Landkreis Dortmund combined with Landkreis Hörde — was an administrative arrangement that reflected the coal and steel district's interlocking civic governance, not an unusual political maneuver.
Printing was handled by Aachener Verlags- und Druckerei G.m.b.H., one of several regional commercial printers pressed into Notgeld production during this period.