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The Chiemgauer's credit lending

On August 5, 2025, the Henry George School of Economics released a video where Dr. Christian Gelleri discusses the Chiemgauer with Josh Sidman. These are the timestamps where Gelleri explained the three different options for the Chiemgauer's credit lending:

• 39:57: Direct lending.
• 40:41: Formalized micro-financing.
• 42:12: The Chiemgauer model: Give a Chiemgauer credit, and we get Chiemgauer back with a bonus. Interest is paid, but with a bonus at the end. This is about half of the bank's interest rates.

While I believe that these lending options are real, I am going to hold off from stating this information in the article. I don't think the video presented enough information on how the second and third lending methods work, so I would prefer to find another source besides the video that explains this. Zero Contradictions (talk) 04:43, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

missing citations

Hello Zero Contradictions! In this edit, you added a footnote for "Gelleri 2021". But there's no such citation here, and the material isn't verifiable and the article shows some error messages. Are you able to supply the missing citation so that the article renders without errors, and the material is verifiable? -- mikeblas (talk) 16:56, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello mikeblas! I was completely unaware of this problem, but I managed to fix it in my latest edit to the article. The problem was that I forgot to specify the second author of the paper in my sfn footnotes. The citations should display correctly now, the error messages should be gone, and all the material is verifiable. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Zero Contradictions (talk) 13:10, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

To add to article

Basic information to add to this article: whether this currency is legal. How could someone have written an article on this subject, but failed to mention the word "legal"? ~2026-20625-89 (talk) 17:32, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

Because Wikipedia articles usually only say what's found in secondary sources that cover the topic. Most secondary sources on the Chiemgauer don't say whether or not the complementary currency is legal or not, beyond strongly implying it. For that matter, most articles on most complementary currencies don't say whether those currencies are legal or illegal, although there are some that have been banned (and were thus obviously illegal, like most demurrage currencies during the 1930s).

Another issue is that legality can depend on context and what the currency is used for. The article mentions Businesses cannot pay taxes with the Chiemgauer since they are required to pay taxes using the euro. German law also requires employers to pay employees using the euro, and there are no exemptions even if the employer and the employee both agree to paying the employee using other currencies. That paragraph heavily implies that the Chiemgauer is legal for most other uses in region, simply by the fact that people can use it for such purposes. Zero Contradictions (talk) 09:54, 6 April 2026 (UTC)