Abstract: A punch for punching markings into rolled material such as bars, ingots, billots or slabs, relative to which the rolled material that is to be punched is guided, comprises a toolholder movable by means of a controlled piston-cylinder arrangement and punch types settable automatically. A punch plate is firmly arranged on a vertical shaft mounted in the toolholder. The drive of this shaft is effected via bevel gears of which one bevel gear supported in an arm of the toolholder is mounted on and driven by a horizontally supported drive shaft driven by means of a step motor and is axially shiftable along the horizontally supported drive shaft with the toolholder. The toolholder together with the cylinder of the piston-cylinder arrangement as well as the step motor is secured to a transverse slide movable transversely of the path of the toolholder.