Abstract: A medium manganese cold-rolled steel intermediate product having an improved fts value is disclosed, the alloy having a carbon fraction within the range 0.003 wt %<C<0.12 wt %, a manganese fraction (Mn) within the range 3.5 wt %<Mn<12 wt %, a silicon fraction (Si) and/or an aluminium fraction (Al) as alloy fractions, where Si wt %+Al wt %<1, optionally further alloy fractions, optional microalloy fractions, in particular a titanium fraction (Ti) and/or a niobium fraction (Nb) and/or vanadium fraction (V), and the remainder of the alloy has iron (Fe) and unavoidable impurities of a melt. A method is also disclosed having the following step that is carried out after the cold-rolling step performing an intercritical box annealing process at a maximum annealing temperature of 684° C.?(517° C.*the carbon fraction in wt %).