25 Pfennig

Oldenburg in Holstein — not to be confused with the far larger city of Oldenburg in Lower Saxony — issued this Kleingeldschein as part of the wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Germany from 1916 onward, when metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation due to wartime requisitioning. Small towns with no prior history of issuing currency found themselves printing their own small-denomination notes out of administrative necessity.

H. Brügge is credited as designer, a locally engaged artist rather than a professional printing house — suggesting the note was produced on modest equipment, possibly within the region.