25 Pfennig Schlesische Lutherfestspiele

The Schlesische Lutherfestspiele were a series of large-scale theatrical productions staged in Breslau in 1921 to mark the 400th anniversary of Luther's appearance before the Diet of Worms. The city issued this Notgeld specifically to fund or commemorate the festival — a not uncommon practice in early Weimar Germany, where municipalities discovered that collectors would absorb small-denomination emergency notes as souvenirs, effectively generating revenue with paper that never returned for redemption.

Grass, Barth & Comp. (operating under the W. Friedrich imprint) was a Breslau-based printing house with a long local history, which accounts for the unusually tight regional specificity of the design program across the .1 through .5 variants in this series.