Need Help To ID This Bank Note

"Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein businessâ€"the Prince Consort, who is deadâ€"a German professor, who has gone madâ€"and I, who have forgotten all about it."

Lord Palmerston

I gave a presentation on the Schleswig-Holstein problem to the International Bank Note Society about 15 years ago. I, too, once understood the "business" but, alas, like Lord Palmerston, I have forgotten it. (Although my wife would probably suggest I have gone mad.)

Thank you cookey for the information.

I thought I would update you (or lack there of) on my findings so far.

Here is a list of sites that I have emailed.

National Danish-American Genealogical Society
**National Museum of Denmark
Danish newspaper -- Berlingske
Danish Museum in Iowa
University of Denmark
Facebook -- Satrup
Danish National Archives
Owner, catalog of Sonder Jutland emergency notes

**National Museum of Germany
University of Greifswald
University of Freiburg
Municipality of Sorup
German National Archives

The only two responses that I've received so far are from the National Museum of Denmark and the National Museum of Germany. The German Museum provided other websites that may be helpful. And the Danish Museum provided this information, which I already knew.

After WW1 there was a dearth of small change in Germany, and many cities and parishes issued their own notes. Thus, your note is issued by the parish council of Satrup, some 15 km south-east of Flensburg in Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany. It was at the time of the referendum in 1920 whether this part of Germany should be German and Danish. The notes were often used as propaganda for one or the other side, and your note is overtly pro-Danish. In the legend Hjulmand Jørgensen is linked to the war between Denmark and Germany in 1848-1850, and his is shown in a uniform. On the small drawning, he is shown sitting on a roof. I do not know this war episode, but it must have been well known to the local people of Satrup back in 1920.

I'm still searching.

Received this information yesterday from the Danish Museum in Iowa

From a Danish periodical entitled Museum : tidsskrift for historie og geografi (Museum: periodical for history and geography), published in Copenhagen between 1890 and 1896. It's just a small paragraph on p. 10 of the diary notes from 1864 kept by C. Krog Meyer, pastor in Sattrup in Sundeved . My translation:

"Although I now had to be prepared that the Dannevirke was completely deserted, it surprised me, however, when Hjulmand Jørgensen came to me the day before yesterday around noon with the sorrowful news that the Dannevirke-positions were routed and that the entire army was in retreat; he himself was going to flee to the Kingdom [i.e., into Denmark proper] in order not to fall into German hands, for he had not forgotten the persecution and maltreatment he had experienced in 1848 and 1849."

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