Method for assigning addresses to bus subscribers of a bus system, and a bus system having a master module and bus subscribers which are arranged in series, wherein the method has the following temporally successive method steps: wherein, in a first method step, the master module assigns a first address to a first bus subscriber and transmits this first address to the first bus subscriber, in particular wherein the first address is a natural number n, in particular wherein the first address is 0 or 1, wherein, in a second method step, the first bus subscriber increments the first address by one and assigns said address to a second bus subscriber as a second address and transmits this second address to the second bus subscriber, in particular wherein the second address is the natural number (n+1), wherein, in a third method step, the second bus subscriber registers with the master module (M) using the second address thereof.