75 Pfennig Fischermeister

Gothmund was a small fishing village on the Trave estuary, absorbed administratively into Lübeck but stubbornly independent in identity — which makes its decision to issue its own notgeld something between civic pride and local theatre. The "Fischermeister" designation in the title refers not to a portrait subject but to the fisher-guild tradition the village used to brand its scrip, leaning hard into its occupational identity at a moment when every German municipality with a rubber stamp seemed to be printing emergency currency.

H. G. Rahtgens was a Lübeck-based printer responsible for notgeld across several northern German municipalities in this period. Gothmund's proximity made the choice obvious.