1 Pfennig - München Rapp Motorenwerke

Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH was the Munich engine manufacturer that, after financial restructuring and a change of direction in 1917, became Bayerische Motoren Werke — BMW. These zinc notgeld pieces circulated among the factory workforce during World War I, when the Imperial government's requisitioning of copper and nickel for shell casings stripped the economy of small-denomination coinage almost entirely. Zinc was the fallback material across hundreds of German industrial issuers during this period.

The connection to BMW's direct corporate predecessor makes this among the more historically loaded pieces of German industrial notgeld.