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20 Mark
| Issuer | Kaiserliche Gouvernement Deutsch-Südwestafrika |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Protection type | Overprint |
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| Variants | P#3a - issued note P#3b - cancelled note |
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Issued in the final weeks of German colonial authority in South West Africa, this note was produced locally in Windhoek under genuine emergency conditions — not by a metropolitan printing house. The Kaiserliche Gouvernement resorted to improvised paper currency after the outbreak of war cut off access to normal financial channels. Seitz signed as Imperial Governor; he surrendered the territory to South African forces in July 1915, making the entire series one of the shortest-lived colonial emissions in German imperial history.
The overprint security feature reflects the ad hoc nature of production. Paper, press, and authorization were all local.