Apply for Civil Servant Status (Verbeamtung) for Teachers
Verbeamtung für Lehrkräfte beantragen
Machine translation of the German page, 2026-09-15. The German original is binding.
The Federal State of Berlin has been granting civil servant status to teachers again since 2004 for the first time. If you wish to be granted civil servant status, you must apply for it.
The application procedure is aimed at employed teachers, school principals and seminar leaders who were working in the public school service of the Federal State of Berlin in the 2022/2023 school year on a permanent, non-terminated basis and who meet the requirements for civil servant status.
Procedure
1. Submit the online application for transfer to civil servant status (Beamtenverhältnis).
2. Save the application as a PDF file on your device.
3. Your submission will be processed by the personnel office (Personalstelle), which will draw on your documents in your personnel file.
4. In the case of an application for civil servant status, the personnel office will contact you without being asked and request that you present yourself to a doctor for an assessment of your medical fitness. The certificate must be submitted to the personnel office.
Book an appointment
Book an appointment (service.berlin.de)
Requirements
• You are an employed teacher in the State of Berlin
The law applies to:
• employed teachers,
• employed seminar leaders,
• employed deputy seminar leaders
• Employment in the 2022/2023 school year
In the 2022/2023 school year, you were:
• employed on a permanent, non-terminated basis in the public school service of the State of Berlin
or
• on leave
or
• released from duty under a statutory provision, such as the Bundeselterngeld- und Elternzeitgesetz (Federal Parental Allowance and Parental Leave Act).
• Qualification in the Laufbahnfachrichtung Bildung (career field of education) gesetze.berlin.de/perma?j=BiLbV_BE_Inhaltsverzeichnis
You have a qualification for one of the career branches (Laufbahnzweige) of the school service established within the career field of education (Laufbahnfachrichtung Bildung) (pursuant to § 1 para. 2 no. 1 in conjunction with § 2 nos. 1 to 6 of the Bildungslaufbahnverordnung (Education Career Path Ordinance))
• Age limit up to completion of the 52nd year of age
• Employed teachers may be appointed to civil servant status (Beamtenverhältnis) up to completion of their 52nd year of age (by way of derogation from § 8a para. 1 sentence 1 of the Landesbeamtengesetz (State Civil Servants Act))
• Nationality www.gesetze-im-internet.de/beamtstg/__7.html
Appointment to civil servant status (Verbeamtung) requires the nationality of a member state of the European Union or of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
• Positive health prognosis
Appointment to civil servant status (Verbeamtung) requires a medical examination with a positive health prognosis. The examination result must not be older than six months at the time of appointment. You will be informed in writing in due course by the personnel office (Personalstelle) about the review of your medical fitness by a doctor affiliated with the Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Berlin (KV Berlin, Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians Berlin), and you will also receive documents (e.g. a cover letter to the examining doctor, a medical history form, and an expert opinion form) that you must bring with you to the examination appointment.
Documents you need
• Application for appointment to civil servant status (Beamtenverhältnis)
• Further documents
If further documents are required, the personnel department (Personalstelle) will ask you in individual cases to provide these documents: this includes, for example, the report on the outcome of your medical health examination.
Fees
none
Legal basis
• Schulgesetz (SchulG – School Act) gesetze.berlin.de/perma?j=SchulG_BE_Inhaltsverzeichnis
• Gesetz zur Verbeamtung von angestellten Lehrkräften im Berliner Schuldienst und zum Verwendungseinkommen von Lehrkräften im Ruhestand (Lehrkräfteverbeamtungsgesetz – Act on Granting Civil Servant Status to Employed Teachers in the Berlin School Service and on the Post-Retirement Income of Teachers, LVerbG) gesetze.berlin.de/perma?j=LehrVerbeamtG_BE_!_5
• Bildungslaufbahnverordnung (BLVO – Educational Career Ordinance) gesetze.berlin.de/perma?j=BiLbV_BE_Inhaltsverzeichnis
Processing time
An average processing time cannot be given because the number of applicants is not known.
Further information
• We are appointing teachers as civil servants in Berlin (Senatsverwaltung für Bildung, Jugend und Familie, Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family) www.berlin.de/sen/bjf/karriere/wir-verbeamten/
• Teacher: switching from salaried employment to civil servant status (Senatsverwaltung für Bildung, Jugend und Familie) www.berlin.de/sen/bjf/karriere/wir-verbeamten/informationsbl
• Civil servant pension provision in the State of Berlin (Landesverwaltungsamt Berlin, State Office of Administration) www.berlin.de/sen/bjf/karriere/wir-verbeamten/kurzinfo-beamt
• Decision-making aid for civil servant employees regarding the different Beihilfe (subsidy for medical expenses) entitlements (Landesverwaltungsamt Berlin) www.berlin.de/sen/bjf/karriere/wir-verbeamten/entscheidungsh
• Information sheet on the appointment of teachers as civil servants in the State of Berlin (Senatsverwaltung für Bildung, Jugend und Familie) www.berlin.de/sen/bjf/karriere/wir-verbeamten/merkblatt-1.pd
• Information on the implications of fundamental health insurance law decisions when entering civil servant status (Senatsverwaltung für Finanzen, Senate Department for Finance) www.berlin.de/sen/bjf/karriere/wir-verbeamten/merkblatt-2.pd
Responsible for you
Choose a location; the appointment itself is booked on the original page.
- Senatsverwaltung für Bildung, Jugend und Familie
- Zentraler Service Verbeamtung
Original
Service number 331409 · same path as the original: service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/331409/