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2 Mark Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur
| Issuer | Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur, Landesgruppe Sachsen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 1921 Zwei Mark SPENDE FÜR DIE LIGA ZUM SCHUTZE DER DEUTSCHEN KULTUR LANDESGRUPPE SACHSEN. |
| Reverse description | Dark blue-ground Expressionist composition printed in blue, pink and white, dominated by two dynamic half-length figures in a woodcut style: a male figure at left raises a hammer and a female figure at right wields a tool, both set against a stormy hatched sky with a lightning bolt between them and a small house at centre. Numeral '2' and 'MARK' appear in white at lower left and in red at lower right. Two scrolled banner cartouches along the lower margin carry the aphoristic inscription 'WAS KANN AUS BLUTIGEM HASS' at left and 'EUCH GLÜCKLICHES GEDEIHN' at right, with the serial number and the designer's name 'M. ESCHLE' printed between them. |
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The Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur — the League for the Protection of German Culture — was one of dozens of völkisch organizations that proliferated in the early Weimar years, issuing this notgeld through its Saxon regional group in 1921. That a cultural-nationalist league was printing its own scrip at all speaks to how thoroughly the notgeld phenomenon had been colonized by political actors by that point in the inflation crisis.
The Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau handled production — a municipal print works serving a mid-sized Saxon textile town. Designer M. Eschle is otherwise obscure in notgeld literature.