2 Mark Straßenbahn Berlin, Issue 7 - Erste elektr. Straßenbahn

Berlin's municipal tram authority issued this note in 1922 as part of a broader Notgeld program during the hyperinflationary spiral that was making small-denomination Reichsmark coins effectively worthless as fast as they could be minted. The seventh issue in the series commemorates the launch of the first electric tramline in Berlin — the Lichterfelde line, which began operating in May 1881 and was among the earliest electric street railways anywhere in the world, built by Siemens & Halske.

The two signatories, Dr. Jur. Adler and Harding, signed in their capacities as senior Magistrat officials authorizing emergency transport scrip — a bureaucratic detail that dates the note to a very narrow window before the currency collapsed entirely later that year.