Semester Ticket

Deutschland-Semesterticket

Since the summer semester 2024 your student ID card is no longer valid as travel authorisation (not even in the MDV area). Retrieve your Deutschland-Semesterticket for the winter semester 2024/25 now. Please note: The ticket for the summer semester 2024 does not automatically convert to the one for the winter semester; you have to activate it.

Special regulations apply to students that:

• study at the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
• have applied to an reimbursement from payment of the semester fee
• are registered under a different name at their university (e.g. genderqueere people, stage names)

How to receive your ticket, where its valid and which particulatrities you have to consider – here you can find all important information.

How do I retrieve my ticket?

You can get your Deutschland-Semesterticket either as a digital ticket on the LeipzigMOVE app or alternatively as chip card in one of the service centres of the LVB.

• Deutschland-Semesterticket in LeipzigMOVE

  Do you already have a Deutschland-Semesterticket in LeipzigMOVE?

  All you have to do is retrieve the ticket again in LeipzigMOVE. Before you do this, please update the app. In LeipzigMOVE you will be asked to log in to your university network, please have your personal login details ready. The log in process verifys your eligibility to the Deutschland-Semesterticket and copy’s your name that is on file in the university network on the ticket. If this name does not match your official identification document please visit a service centre of the LVB to get the chip card.

  You are newly enrolled or do not yet have a Deutschland-Semesterticket in LeipzigMOVE?

  Download the LeipzigMOVE-App by the LVB and register to receive the digital Deutschland-Semesterticket via smartphone. In LeipzigMOVE you can choose your Deutschland-Semesterticket 14 days before the start of each semester at the earliest. When clicking on your ticket you will need to log in at your university network, please gather your personal log in data for this step. The log in process verifys your eligibility to the Deutschland-Semesterticket and copy’s your name that is on file in the university network on the ticket. If this name does not match your official identification document please visit a service centre of the LVB to get the chip card.

  • Students studying at the HMT and the HHL can receive their ticket in LeipzigMOVE from now on. Please consider that students of the HHL apply to some particularities that are listed below (“Students of the HHL”).
  • Students studing at the Universität Leipzig, the HTWK, the HGB, the BA Leipzig and the iba Leipzig can receive their ticket from now on.

  In the case of a ticket control you need to show your official identification document additionally to your Deutschland-Semesterticket.

  The LVB has created a detailed guide for ticket retrieval.

• Deutschland-Semesterticket as chip card

  Regardless of whether you already have a Deutschland-Semesterticket or you are newly enrolled or do not yet have a Deutschland-Semesterticket: If you need your ticket on a chip card, then go to one of a service centre of the LVB and get your Deutschland-Semesterticket at the earliest 14 days before the start of the semester.

  You need your:

  • Official identification document
  • Your valid certificate of enrolment for the semester and
  • Your student ID card

  In the case of a ticket control, you need to show your official identification document additionally to your Deutschland-Semesterticket chip card.

  Please note that there may be longer waiting times on site at the service centers if there is a high volume of visitors.

  Please also note that it is necessary to enter and save your address data in order to issue a chip card (in contrast to issuing the ticket in LeipzigMOVE).

• Students of the HHL

  To retrieve your Deutschland-Semesterticket via LeipzigMOVE or at the LVB service points, you will need a contract number, which the LVB will send you by e-mail, probably around August 26, 2024. All further steps can be found under “How do I retrieve the ticket?” (see above) for more information. You can find instructions here.

• Students apply for a “Reimbursement of the Semester fee”

  If you want to apply for an “Reimbursement of the Semester fee” for the winter semester, this will only be possible if you have not yet retrieved your Deutschland-Semesterticket. The reimbursement is not possible anymore if you already have your ticket either as chip card or as digital ticket.

• Student with various names

  While retrieving the Deutschland-Semesterticket in the LeipzigMove-App the name that you have registered with in your university will be shown. For students that keep a differing name from the one shown in their official identification document at their university (e.g. genderqueere people, stage names) a ticket control could be problematic.

  For the ticket control a valid official identification document must be shown additionally to the ticket on the app. If you retrieve your ticket as chip card in one of the service centre of the LVB it will be possible to change the name on the ticket to the one shown in the identification document.

  Please note: Unfortunately, it cannot be guaranteed that the dgti-Ergänzungsausweis will be accepted at ticket inspections throughout Germany.