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The 9-Euro-Ticket - a monthly ticket - was valid throughout Germany between June and August 2022. Passengers did not need any additional tickets for travelling and they could travel on it over all Germany. Traveling was made much easier and encouraged additional passengers to use public transport who otherwise would not have traveled by this transport mean at all. As a replacement for the 9-Euro-Ticket, the so-called Deutschland-Ticket, which costs 49 Euros, was introduced on May 1st, 2023. The article analyzes, using public available data, the development of passenger numbers in the period of the 9-Euro-Ticket, its financing, points out some problems connected with the ticket and development after the end of the ticket. Overall, the 9-Euro-Ticket was a success, as 52 million tickets were sold throughout Germany and passenger figures increased extraordinarily. The transport companies were thus able to compensate for the declining passenger numbers caused by the pandemic, at least for the threemonth implementation period. To finance the 9-Euro-Ticket, the federal government increased the regionalization funds by € 2.5 billion and made them available to the federal states based on the so-called "Kiel distribution key" to financially support the transport companies, as the low-priced ticket led to a loss of revenue for the companies.