Account overview

You will receive several personal identifiers and accounts, each enabling you to do different things.

Here is a brief overview:

• student number
  • Is a 7-digit running number (e.g., 7012345)
  • Is needed for exams, tuition fees, etc.
  • Is assigned to you when you start studying by the University
  • Can be found on your student ID
• STiNE account (also "UHH account"/"B-account"/"User account")
  • Consists of three letters (the first is a "B" which stands for "Benutzer" – German for "user") and four digits (e.g., BAM1234)
  • Is required for accessing STiNE, WiFi (eduroam), Moodle, and your university e-mail address
  • Your university e-mail address will look something like this:
    firstname.lastname@studium.uni-hamburg.de
• iRZ account (also "Informatics account")
  • Consists of a digit (last digit of the year you started at UHH, 5 ≙ 2025) and the first seven letters of your last name (e.g., 5surname).
    In case of collisions, your account name might additionally contain letters of your first name.
  • Is required to access the computers at the Informatikum and to create an account for mafiasi.de (see below)
• mafiasi account
  • Looks like the iRZ account ID (IRZ ≙ "Informatik Rechenzentrum") but with one further digit of your starting year(e.g. 25surname)
  • Is needed for all web services that are offered to you by the student body (more on that here)