25 Pfennig Landkreis Schweidnitz

Schweidnitz notgeld from this period came out of the severe small-change shortage that crippled everyday commerce across Germany in the early Weimar years — federal coinage production simply could not keep up with demand, and district savings banks like the Kreissparkasse were among the institutions authorized to fill the gap locally. Hugo Reisse was a regional printer with no particular prestige; these were functional emergency instruments, not collector pieces, though philatelic demand arrived quickly enough that some issues were printed in quantities well beyond genuine commercial need.

Schweidnitz itself — now Świdnica in southwestern Poland — was transferred to Poland under the Potsdam Agreement in 1945, which severed the institutional continuity that might otherwise have preserved archival records of exact print runs.