If you are a member of the fund and are checked without a ticket, the fund will pay the increased fare. Send an email to entgelt@9eurofonds.de with the following content: Send us a photo of the payment request, your current order number, the typed IBAN and the name of the relevant transport company. We also need the EBE number or FN number for the intended purpose. We will then transfer the fee for you and send you a confirmation. If you want to take someone with you, explain how to do it and pass on your current order number. This will allow us to recognize and pay for the ticket as a Soli 9 Euro ticket.

Driving without a ticket is still considered a criminal offense in Germany and every time you are checked without a ticket, the risk of being reported increases. We therefore recommend that you stop using the fund once you have been checked without a ticket. We do not cover the costs of penalties and legal proceedings. Please be aware that you ultimately bear the risk yourself. To protect you, we will cancel your active membership of the fund after the second ticket that we have taken over for you. In order not to endanger yourself, it is very important that you make sure that you are no longer checked without a ticket! Any additional people you have taken with you will not be counted.

Driving without a ticket is considered a criminal offense in Germany. You will be charged with the so-called „fraudulent obtaining of benefits“. If you are caught, there is nothing we can do about the legal consequences that may arise.  If, for example, you are on probation, your visa depends on law-abiding behavior or similar, there is a much higher risk of being prosecuted than with others and/or the impending consequences are much more drastic. It is also possible that transport companies will record people who are caught without a ticket in a database – and people who have often traveled without a ticket will eventually be reported to the police. So always be aware of the risk and weigh up carefully whether you want to take it or not.

What are the benefits of your stickers and jute bags?  The stickers and jute bags have two aims: Firstly, you make your demand for affordable mobility for everyone visible in public spaces, on buses and trains, and show that you are in favor of affordable mobility: I travel without a ticket because I demand that the 9-euro ticket be reintroduced. Secondly, you can try to refute the legal accusation of „fraudulent use of benefits“ with your openly worn statements.  After all, it is difficult to speak of „fraud“ when ticketless travel is done publicly and explicitly. However, courts have so far ruled very differently on this. You can’t rely on anything here either.  There is already case law which states that small stickers are not sufficient to avoid this accusation (KG, decision of March 2, 2011 – (4) 1 Ss 32/11 (19/11)). That is why our stickers are quite large, but even that is no guarantee. In addition, you may have to go to court to fight the argument – not all people are prepared to do this either.    

After all, it is difficult to speak of „fraud“ if ticketless travel is done publicly and explicitly. However, courts have so far ruled very differently on this. You can’t rely on anything here either.

There is already case law which states that small stickers are not sufficient to avoid this accusation (KG, decision of March 2, 2011 – (4) 1 Ss 32/11 (19/11)). That is why our stickers are quite large, but even that is no guarantee. In addition, you may have to go to court to fight the argument – not everyone is prepared to do this either.

We are a small structure with few people and little resources and therefore we unfortunately cannot offer any further support with legal consequences – neither with finding lawyers, nor with emotional support or paying the actual fine after receiving a penalty order, should one actually come. You are of course free to write to us if you are threatened with further consequences – but we can’t guarantee that we can help.

If you were already a member before the inspection, the fund will pay the increased transportation fee for you and/or one other person per month! If you are checked without a ticket, please send us an email to entgelt@9eurofonds.de. In addition to a photo of the payment request addressed to you, please also send us the name of the transport company with its IBAN and the EBE number for the purpose of payment (sometimes also called FN no.). This information and your current order number must also be sent to us by the +1 person traveling on your order number. We will then settle the invoice for you or the +1 person and send a confirmation. As the penalty fees are time-limited payments, we ask you or your +1 person to inform us immediately after the inspection. This way we can transfer the money directly and there are no further reminder costs. If reminder costs are incurred because the mail reaches us too late, we ask you or the +1 person to bear these yourself. In this case, the fund will only pay the 60 euros. 

I traveled without a ticket and was checked, but was not yet a member of the 9-Euro-Fund at the time. What can I do?

In this case, you will have to pay the fine yourself. It is not possible to join the fund at a later date. The 9-Euro-Fund works on the principle of solidarity. If everyone only joined when they had been checked without a ticket, there would very quickly be no money left in the fund. We want to prevent this and therefore only pay out the increased transportation fee to members or their +1 person.  

The 9-Euro-Fund started as an independent activist initiative and has now slipped under the legal patronage of the party DIE PARTEI. 

Generally speaking, you are a member as soon as you transfer money to the fund. If you are checked, we will pay the increased transportation fee for you and/or a +1 person per month. However, if you want to be absolutely sure that everything went smoothly with the transfer, please send us your request to admin@9eurofonds.de.

Actually a good idea! Unfortunately, the easiest way to allocate your payment is to place a new order on our website every month and enter your order number in the reference field. In the past, we have sometimes had problems with the allocation of standing orders. We therefore advise against this until further notice. At the end of each month, we therefore remind all members to pay into the donation fund again if they are interested.

Once you have paid in, you can be mobile for 9 euros until the end of the current month. Your membership of the fund works in the same way as a monthly ticket. At the end of each month, we will send you an e-mail reminding you to pay in again for the coming month. 

We finance the fund from donations, so it is important that you think carefully about whether you can pay in a little more than €9 and that you tell all your friends and acquaintances about it, because with more people, the donations increase and the likelihood that the fund will not run out. If this happens, we will notify everyone in good time and let them know.

We pay the fare for journeys within Germany on buses, subway trains, streetcars and S-Bahn trains where the 9-euro ticket could previously be used. Regional transport operated by DB is not covered. 

Basically: Yes. The 9-Euro-Fund is a solidarity pot and the contribution of 9 euros is a politically chosen amount to demand that the 9-euro ticket be reintroduced. Due to the broad circle of supporters and many donations, we are confident that we will be able to continue to pay all increased transport fares – however, we cannot guarantee this and there is no legal entitlement to this. If the fund is empty, we will ask for further donations and inform all members by email that we are currently no longer able to pay.