German Democratic Republic Banknotes 50 Mark banknote 1964 Friedrich Engels
German Central Bank - Deutschen Notenbank DDR
Obverse: Portrait of Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher and father of Marxist theory & National Emblem of the GDR in underprint at center.
Reverse: combines in wheat field & the National Emblem of the German Democratic Republic at upper left.
Watermark: portrait of Friedrich Engels.
Size : 150 x 72 mm.
Printer: VEB Wertpapierdruckerei der DDR, Leipzig.
German Democratic Republic Banknotes
1964 Issue
The East German mark (Mark der DDR) in West Germany and after the reunification), in East Germany only Mark, was the currency of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Its ISO 4217 currency code was DDM. The currency was known officially as the Deutsche Mark from 1948 to 1964, Mark der Deutschen Notenbank from 1964 to 1967, and from 1968 to 1990 as the Mark der DDR (Mark of the GDR); it was referred to colloquially as simply the Mark. It was divided into 100 Pfennig.Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels (28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, together with Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in Manchester.
In 1848 he co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, though he also authored and co-authored (primarily with Marx) many other works, and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx's death, Engels edited the second and third volumes. Additionally, Engels organized Marx's notes on the "Theories of Surplus Value," which he later published as the "fourth volume" of Capital. He has also made important contributions to family economics.