A method for profiling of cylindrical, thin-walled, hollow workpieces by cold-forming, for producing inner and outer toothings in the hollow workpieces having profiles running essentially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the hollow workpiece, characterized in that - for being worked on, the hollow workpiece is placed onto a mandrel having a profiling, the mandrel being movable along the longitudinal axis of the workpiece relative to the profiling tool, - a profiling tool which is operationally connected to an eccentric drive produces, in a direction radial to said longitudinal axis, hammering impacts from the outside against the hollow workpiece, - the profiling tool acts on the surface of the hollow workpiece in an oscillating fashion solely in an essentially perpendicular direction, - the oscillating thrust motion of the profiling tool is selected to be greater than the maximum radial depth of impression of the profiling tool into the hollow workpiece, - the hollow workpiece is intermittently rotated about said longitudinal axis, wherein said intermittent rotation of the hollow workpiece is synchronized with the oscillating thrust motion of the profiling tool, in particular each time by an amount corresponding to a pitch of the profiling to be made, and - the profiling tool, while operating in a uniform radial depth oscillation, is caused to move axially relative to the hollow workpiece, until a desired length of the profiling is achieved, wherein the profiling tool is designed as a metal working die comprising an active operational side and has at its active operational side a shape corresponding in a cross-section to the contour of the profile of the hollow workpiece to be created, and wherein the active operational side has a lower edge which in a longitudinal section is inclined at an acute angle relative to said longitudinal axis, except for a calibration zone forming an end portion of the profiling tool, wherein said lower edge, in a longitudinal section, is in the range of the calibration zone aligned parallel to the longitudinal axis, and wherein, in a cross-section, a contour of the operational side corresponds to the profile to be created in the external surface of the hollow workpiece, and wherein in the calibration zone the lower edge is located closest to the surface of the hollow workpiece. - for being worked on, the hollow workpiece is placed onto a mandrel having a profiling, the mandrel being movable along the longitudinal axis of the workpiece relative to the profiling tool, - a profiling tool which is operationally connected to an eccentric drive produces, in a direction radial to said longitudinal axis, hammering impacts from the outside against the hollow workpiece, - the profiling tool acts on the surface of the hollow workpiece in an oscillating fashion solely in an essentially perpendicular direction, - the oscillating thrust motion of the profiling tool is selected to be greater than the maximum radial depth of impression of the profiling tool into the hollow workpiece, - the hollow workpiece is intermittently rotated about said longitudinal axis, wherein said intermittent rotation of the hollow workpiece is synchronized with the oscillating thrust motion of the profiling tool, in particular each time by an amount corresponding to a pitch of the profiling to be made, and - the profiling tool, while operating in a uniform radial depth oscillation, is caused to move axially relative to the hollow workpiece, until a desired length of the profiling is achieved,