The passion scale (Vallerand et al., 2003; 2019) gains popularity in industrial- and organisational psychology research since it's devise and has been translated to many different languages. However, since a recent German translation was lacking, this study translated the passion scale including its two facets, harmonious and obsessive passion to German following recommendations given by Brislin (1970) and Smith (2004) and validated it using a German sample of working students (N=433). Different CFA and ESEM two-factor solutions were compared and a solution also employed by Marsh et al. (2013) retained as the final model. Results include scale properties resembling those of other studies, most notably Marsh and colleagues (2013). However, as also apparent in other translation studies and more recently pointed out by different researchers (e.g. Astakhova et al., 2020; Moeller et al., 2021; Smith et al., 2023) the conceptualization of (work) passion as done in the dualistic model of passion (Vallerand et al., 2003; 2019) may not do the construct fully justice and different approaches may be necessary in the future. However, until then, contributions of this study include the German passion scale provided in this study as an easy to adapt measure of harmonious and obsessive passion, covering different activity domains, including (but not limited to) work, leisure, social, sports and education. The Mplus dataset provided here is devoid of any variable names. Only variables relevant for the main analysis are included (free form Mplus data input). Thus, you can replicate the main analysis of the related publication with this dataset, by copying the syntax to Mplus and running it accordingly. The .CSV dataset includes all variables for the main analysis, as well as many variables beyond the according publication: There were two measurement occasions spaced two weeks apart and participants were asked to indicate two different passionate activities per measurement occasion. If participants didn't specify their work as their first passionate activity (as indeed, most of them didn't), they were specifically asked about their work passion for the second passionate activity (and vice versa). The related publication only uses data for work passion of the first measurement occasion (Variable Names "Taetigk2_Arb_*"). Of course, no demographic variables are included.