50 Pfennig Deutscher Verein für Sanitätshunde

The Deutscher Verein für Sanitätshunde — the German Association for Sanitary Dogs — trained rescue and medical dogs, a practice developed intensively during the First World War when these animals were used to locate wounded soldiers on the battlefield. By 1921, the organization was operating in straitened postwar conditions, and this Notgeld issue was almost certainly a fundraising instrument rather than emergency currency in the conventional sense. Stalling, the Oldenburg printer responsible for this note, was a significant regional press with a long illustrated-book history.