10th August 1936
Reichsdruckerei

The 'Reichsdruckerei'

From Wikipedia:

The Reichs Printing Office in Berlin was under the management of the State Secretary of the Reich Post Office. It was created on 1st April, 1879 through the merger of the Royal Prussian State Printing Office, founded in 1852, with Decker's Royal Secret Oberhof Buchdruckerei. The official founding day of the Reichsdruckerei was 6th July, 1879.

The location used was the property of the former Prussian state printing press on Oranienstrasse, which was expanded between 1879 and 1881 according to plans by the architect Carl Busse, who was also the first director of the Reichsdruckerei.

It was generally only intended for the direct purposes of the German Empire and the federal states, but also worked for local authorities, corporations and, in certain cases, for private individuals. Their main activity was the production of Reich treasury notes, Reich banknotes, bonds, postage stamps, exchange stamps and other stamps and monetary papers. It also printed ordinance sheets and official works (including the Reichskursbuch and patent documents).

At the head of the Reich Printing Office was a director. Two company inspectors managed the technical operation.

As a successor institution after 1949, the tasks of the Reichsdruckerei were essentially taken over by the State Printing Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, from which the Federal Printing Office emerged in 1951.

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