Summary

Receipt for the donation of money to Ludendorff Wounded Soldiers Fund, Germany. Inscriptions in German. The card was found with a small handwritten text label, which suggest it may have been previously displayed by Museum Victoria. The text label reads:"Translation / This note has been given in return for a donation of a half mark to the Ludendorff Wounded Soldiers Fund. 'I thank the giver in the name of his war stricken comrades' Ludendorff".

The First World War Commemoration Site, Ettlingen, Germany, explains that the Ludendorff Spende für Kriegsbeschädigte - the Ludendorff Fund for Disabled War Veterans - was established in May 1918 by Emma Tscheuschner 'to assist war-disabled soldiers help transition back to civilian life. The fund collected around 150,000,000 Reichsmarks and continued until 1923, when it was dissolved probably due to the currency inflation of the Weimar Republic.' The honorary chairman of the fund was German general Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (1865-1937).

Physical Description

Small piece of paper printed in red and black. Front has highly decorative and stylised German gothic text, accompanied by a detailed illustration of a sword and shield. The reverse is printed with a form, which has been completed with handwritten signatures in black ink, a stamp with crest, and an additional military stamp in purple ink.

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