1 Rupie

Printed at the offices of the Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung in Dar es Salaam, this note is a product of genuine wartime isolation. By 1915, the British naval blockade had severed German East Africa from any external supply of currency or printing materials, forcing Governor Heinrich Schnee's administration to improvise with what was locally available — a newspaper press and whatever paper stock could be sourced in-colony.

The series is sometimes called Buschgeld — bush money — by collectors. Lettow-Vorbeck's forces used these notes in the field throughout the East Africa campaign.