diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 3b0b09c..1ed8d2e 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-0.56.2 2018-03-20
+0.56.2 2018-03-23
         - [feature] Introduce meta field retrieval method (diewald)
         - [cleanup] Rename KrillQuery's "_"-method to "nr" to improve
           compatibility with future versions of Java (diewald)
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
         - [feature] Serialize dates in dash separation format, when
           metadata field name ends with "Date" (diewald)
         - [bugfix] Fixed left exclusion-expansion when there is no 
-          more span for SpanOrQuery (margaretha) 
+          more span for SpanOrQuery (margaretha)
+        - [bugfix] Fixed matchID response to be always identical to
+          a given matchID (diewald)
 
 0.56.1 2018-01-31
         - [bugfix] Changed relation serialization in snippet to work
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/response/Match.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/response/Match.java
index 81d4c2e..d67fdba 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/response/Match.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/response/Match.java
@@ -128,7 +128,11 @@
 	private int startPage = -1;
 	private int endPage = -1;
 	
-    private String tempSnippet, snippetHTML, snippetBrackets, identifier;
+    private String tempSnippet,
+		snippetHTML,
+		snippetBrackets,
+		identifier,
+		mirrorIdentifier;
 
     private HighlightCombinator snippetArray;
 
@@ -186,7 +190,9 @@
      */
     public Match (String idString, boolean includeHighlights) {
         MatchIdentifier id = new MatchIdentifier(idString);
+
         if (id.getStartPos() > -1) {
+			this.mirrorIdentifier = id.toString();
 
             if (id.getTextSigle() != null)
                 this.setTextSigle(id.getTextSigle());
@@ -204,7 +210,7 @@
                     if (pos[0] < id.getStartPos() || pos[1] > id.getEndPos())
                         continue;
                     this.addHighlight(pos[0], pos[1], pos[2]);
-                };
+				};
         };
     };
 
@@ -666,10 +672,16 @@
     @Override
     @JsonProperty("matchID")
     public String getID () {
+		
+		// Return identifier as given
+        if (this.mirrorIdentifier != null) {
+            return this.mirrorIdentifier;
+		};
 
-        // Identifier already given
-        if (this.identifier != null)
+        // Identifier already created
+        if (this.identifier != null) {
             return this.identifier;
+		};
 
         // No, nada, nix
         if (this.localDocID == -1)
@@ -1098,7 +1110,7 @@
         this.processed = false;
         this.snippetHTML = null;
         this.snippetBrackets = null;
-        this.identifier = null;
+		this.identifier = null;
 
         // Delete all spans
         if (this.span != null)
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestMatchIdentifier.java b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestMatchIdentifier.java
index 6f35916..f87f4b1 100644
--- a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestMatchIdentifier.java
+++ b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/index/TestMatchIdentifier.java
@@ -174,13 +174,17 @@
                 "... [[{f/m:acht:b}{f/m:neun:a}]] ...",
                 km.getSnippetBrackets());
 
-
+		// Mirror identifier when passed
         km = ki.getMatchInfo("match-c1!d1-p7-9(0)8-8(2)7-8", "tokens", "f",
                 null, false, false);
         assertEquals("SnippetBrackets (1b)",
                 "... [[{f/m:acht:{f/y:eight:b}}{f/m:neun:{f/y:nine:a}}]] ...",
                 km.getSnippetBrackets());
 
+        JsonNode res = mapper.readTree(km.toJsonString());
+        assertEquals("match-c1!d1-p7-9(0)8-8(2)7-8",
+                res.at("/matchID").asText());
+		
         km = ki.getMatchInfo("match-c1!d1-p7-9(0)8-8(2)7-8", "tokens", "f", "m",
                 false, true);
 
@@ -216,7 +220,7 @@
                         + "<span class=\"more\">" + "</span>" + "</span>",
                 km.getSnippetHTML());
 
-        JsonNode res = mapper.readTree(km.toJsonString());
+		res = mapper.readTree(km.toJsonString());
         assertEquals("tokens", res.at("/field").asText());
         assertTrue(res.at("/startMore").asBoolean());
         assertTrue(res.at("/endMore").asBoolean());