1 Mark Buchdruckerei Rehmann

Bockenem is a small town in Lower Saxony, and Heinrich Rehmann was its printer — not a bank, not a municipal treasury. During the notgeld period, particularly 1914–1923, German towns and businesses of all sizes issued emergency small-denomination scrip when official coinage disappeared from circulation, hoarded by a public bracing for the worst. A printing house issuing its own 1 Mark note is among the more self-referential acts of that crisis: the same press that made the money was named on the money.

Self-printed notgeld from private commercial issuers carries a higher forgery risk by design — there was no separation between issuer and printer.