25 Pfennig Verkehrsverein

Königswinter's Verkehrsverein — a local tourism association, not a municipal authority — issuing its own emergency currency is a sharp illustration of how thoroughly the Notgeld phenomenon dissolved normal boundaries of monetary issuing authority during the inflation years. Associations, clubs, and chambers of commerce all printed scrip when small change simply disappeared from circulation. H. Stürtz A.G. in Würzburg was a prolific Notgeld printer of the period, handling runs for dozens of such bodies across Germany.

Designer Heinrich Vogel's credit in the margin is worth noting — Stürtz often commissioned named artists for tourist-area issues, where collectability was part of the commercial calculation from the outset.