The hyperinflation episode in the Weimar Republic in the early 1920s was not the first hyperinflation, nor was it the first one in Europe, or even the most extreme inflation in history (the Hungarian pengő and Zimbabwean dollar have both been more inflated).
During the hyperinflation in 1920s Germany, he donated the respectable sum of 20'000 Mark to the impoverished people of his hometown, but lost almost everything on Black Friday, 1929.
Adam Ferguson: Das Ende des Geldes - Hyperinflation und ihre Folgen am Beispiel der Weimarer Republik. FinanzBuch-Verlag, München 2011, ISBN 978-3-89879-627-9