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Extend your licence as a driving instructor to include categories A, CE and DE

  • Service description

    If you have a licence as a driving instructor, you can extend this to include categories A, CE and DE.

    • With the BE category, you can work as a driving instructor for passenger cars. It authorises you to teach the following classes:
      • B
      • BE
      • L
    • Class A entitles you to work as a motorbike driving instructor. It authorises you to teach the following classes:
      • AM
      • A1
      • A2
      • A
    • With the CE category, you can work as a lorry driving instructor. It authorises you to teach the following classes:
      • C1
      • C1E
      • C
      • CE
      • T
    • With the DE class, you can work as a bus driving instructor. It authorises you to teach the following classes:
      • D1
      • D1E
      • D
      • EN

    To be able to extend your licence, you must have held a category B licence for at least 3 years and, depending on the driving instructor licence you want, a category A2, CE or D licence for at least 2 years.

  • Who should I contact?

    Driving licence authorities

  • Prerequisites

    • You are at least 21 years old.
    • You are mentally and physically fit.
    • They are professionally and pedagogically suitable.
    • There are no reasons that make you appear unreliable for the job.
    • You have completed vocational training or an equivalent qualification.
    • You have a driving licence for the category you wish to teach.
    • You have successfully completed your training as a driving instructor in the last 3 years.
    • You have sufficient knowledge of German.
  • Which documents are required?

    • Application
    • Birth certificate
    • Curriculum vitae
    • medical and ophthalmological certificate confirming your suitability as a driving instructor (maximum 1 year old)
    • Driving licence (copy)
    • Proof of completion of vocational training, Abitur or Fachholschulreife
    • Training certificate as a driving instructor
    • Certificate from the training driving school (only for category BE)
    • Certificate of good conduct (not older than 3 months)
  • Legal basis

  • Short text

    • Anyone with a driving instructor licence can extend this to include categories A, CE and DE
      • with class A work as a motorbike driving instructor possible
      • with category CE work as a lorry driving instructor possible
      • with class DE work as a bus driving instructor possible
    • In order for the licence to be extended, at least 3 years of driving licence category and at least 2 years of driving licence category A2, CE or D required
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