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Berlin is making faster progress than expected with the civil servant status of previously employed teachers.
Education Senator Katharina Günther-Wünsch (CDU) said that she expects all applications submitted on time to be processed by the end of the year. That is one year earlier than originally planned.
After an 18-year interruption, Berlin returned to granting civil servant status to teachers in 2023. At that time, civil servant status was already standard practice in all other federal states. Berlin feared that it would be at a disadvantage in competing with other states for personnel. Among other things, many trainee teachers in Berlin subsequently moved to other federal states in order to obtain civil servant status there.
Under certain conditions, teachers who have previously worked as employees at Berlin schools can also become civil servants. According to the education administration, around 500 such teachers have been made civil servants every month since the beginning of the year. By 1 August, a total of 9,350 had already been appointed, with around 2,375 applications still being processed.