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The Jubelkugel was a marzipan product from the Niederegger company in Lübeck , which was used to finance the 700th anniversary of Lübeck's freedom from the Reich in 1926.

The 700th anniversary of the city of Lübeck was organized in 1926 by the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , because Lübeck's local and state politics did not participate in the preparation due to political quarrels between the social democratic camp and the national conservative bourgeois bloc of the feast able to see. To finance the celebrations privately, the Jubelkugel was developed in 1925 at a suggestion by Lübeck's museum director Carl Georg Heise , which was supported by Lübeck's governing mayor Johann Martin Andreas Neumann , Heises's father-in-law. It was a marzipan ball from the Lübeck marzipan manufacturer Niederegger . The jubilation balls were sold as part of a lottery , the Jubelkugellotterie. The lottery winnings were contained in the marzipan ball, which was an early form of today's surprise egg . Each ball cost one Reichsmark and every tenth ball contained a monetary prize of one, ten or one hundred Reichsmarks, ten cheering balls contained a thousand Reichsmarks as the main prizes. Winnings of RM 37,500 were distributed over 100,000 cheering balls. All 100,000 cheering balls was in December 1925 within a few days of white-red-clad urban colors cheers ball boy with Bauchladen sold in street sale.

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