Objekt 8160
Inflation
Description
Trillions for a shirt
After the First World War the bloated supply of money and the excessive reparation claims led to increased inflation, then to hyperinflation following the occupation of the Ruhr and the general strike of 1923. It was only in November 1923, when one dollar reached the rate of 4.2 trillion marks, that the introduction of the new «Rentenmark» brought inflation to an end.
Object description
upper level on the left:
Coined and paper money
German Empire, Baden, Anhalt, Waldeck and Pyrmont, 20, 5 and 2 mark 1896/1907
Buer in Westfalia, emergency money of 50 billions, 2, 3 and 5 trillions of mark, 1923
Papenburg and Hahla, pseudo emergency money of 25, 50 and 75 pennies with satirical and statistic date on the economic situation, 1921
Inv. 2011.569.1./4., 2007.151.1.–2., 1997.472., 1997.469.
lower level:
Inflation and rationing
German Empire, war and post-war inflation paper money of 100 through 2 millions mark, 1908–1923
Basel, diary notes on the war time 1914 to 1918
Inv. 2011.426.1.–14., 1984.412.