WEIMAR REPUBLIC HYPERINFLATION NOTE

The note above is the 100000 mark note from the Weimar Republic.This was the first of 11 issues in 1923, which was at the height of the period of hyperinflation . On the left is georg giese a prominent merchant from the 1500’s 
 

ALLIED MILITARY CURRENCY IN GERMANY AT THE END OF WWII

This note , like in the previous post , is quite small and is the 1 mark note from Germany issued as the allied military currency in the 1944.

A LARGE GERMAN NOTE FROM 1910

This is a large old note from 1910 from Germany with mercury (left) and Ceres (right) on the front and Germania  on the reverse.

TWO MORE OLD GERMANS

Here are two pre 1930's German notes. the Top note is a one (eine) mark note from 1920 whereas the lower note is a similar one mark note from 1914. the date , 12 August 1914 was 15 days after world war one started and the very day that Britain declared war on the Austro-hungarian empire.

More German notes Here and Here

TWO OLD GERMAN NOTES

Here we have 2 notes from the first part of the 20th century. The first note (top two pics) is the 1908 100 Mark note. Three issues were released at once, this one has a green serial number, one other has a red serial number and the third has Mercury, Ceres and Germania on the note.

The second note is a uniface (printed on one side only) note and it is the 2 million mark note from 1923. Right in the middle of the weirmar hyperinflation period.

More German notes  HERE

DANZIG

The Free City of Danzig was created by the treaty of versailles which lasted between the two world wars. It was made up of the city of Danzig - today called Gdansk - and 200 towns in the area surrounding the city. Previously it was part of Prussia , West Prussia and the Weirmar Republic and existed between 1920 and 1939. The city was administered by the local nazi party from 1933 until 1939 when the Yalta conference decided it should be part of Poland.

Monetary Unit: 1 Mark = 100 pfennig

The Notes above are the emergency money issued in 1919 as the city state was being set up and was issued by the city council.

The notes are the 50 and 10 Pfennig notes and both are uniface.

see also Poland and Germany

GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC

In 1815 32 German states came together to form a federation. In 1871 Otto von Bismarck, the chancellor of Prussia formed the German empire with Wilhelm I at it head. As A result of the first world war the empire disintegrated and the Weimar republic was born. In 1933, economic depression led to Hilter setting up the Third Reich. After the second world war, Germany was split into 4 allied controlled areas and in 1949 the British, French and American areas were set up as the Federal Republic or West Germany, while the Russian controlled area was set up as the DDR or East Germany.
Reunification came in 1990 when East Germany ceased to exist. Germany is on of the main countries of the European Union and Of the Eurozone which came into effect in 2002.

Monetary unit:
1 Deutsche Mark = 100 Pfennigs (1949-2001)
1 Euro = 100 Cents (2002 onward)

The Notes:

The notes above are all pre 1930. the first one, from 1910, is the 1000 Mark note issued from Berlin. the second is a 20 mark note from 1914 - just 5 months before the outbreak of WWI. the 3rd is a 1919, 50 Mark note, this time 7 months after the WWI ended. The last two are the 10,000 mark and 50,000 mark notes from 1922 both from the era of German Hyperinflation. All these notes above are over-sized compared to our modern notes.

the two notes above are from the 1940's. The top one is a 50 Pfennig or 1/2 mark note from 1944, which is during WWII and the bottom one is from 1949, a 10 mark note from the newly constituted West Germany. the 1/2 mark is a small square note about half the size of a modern note whereas the 10 mark note is only marginally smaller than its modern equivalent.

This last two notes are from a specialised section of German notes , they are called Notgeld or emergency money. the first one is a reproduction of a 25 pfennig note from Altenkirchen in 192. Notgeld are best known to be used in Germany and Austria after the first world war. The second one has both front and back shown and is a 25 mark note from Bieldfeld in 1921. The interesting thing about this note is that it is made, not of paper, but of cotton. If you look carefully at the edges you can see the stitching that keeps it together. This one is probably in my top ten of my collection !!