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Driving license exchange due to expiry of validity

If the validity of your driver's license has expired, you must apply for a new license.

Leistungsbeschreibung

Driving licenses issued as of 19.01.2013 are limited to 15 years.

The validity of a driving license issued before 19.01.2013 is governed by Annex 8e to the Driving License Ordinance.

If the validity of the driver's license has expired, a new driver's license must be applied for, unless you renounce the driver's license.

However, the time limit only affects the driver's license document, not the underlying driver's license. No medical examination or other verification is associated with the document exchange.

The rights documented in the driver's license remain valid even if the document is exchanged. The individual driver's license classes that are assigned when a driver's license is exchanged are governed by Annex 3 of the Driver's License Ordinance.

Contact the relevant driver licensing authority in the town, in which you have your main residence.

Contact the relevant driver licensing authority in the town, in which you have your main residence.

  • Photo ID (identity card or passport (if passport is presented: attach a current registration certificate from the registration office responsible for the main place of residence)).
  • Photo, 45 x 35 mm in portrait format and without border (so-called biometric passport photo) - frontal photo, without head covering and without covering of the eyes, information and examples can be found in the photo sample board (Bundesdruckerei)
  • Driving license

The fee is based on the Fee Regulations for Road Traffic Measures (GebOSt).

Driving licenses issued up to and including December 31, 1998:

Year of birth of the driver's license holder - Date by which the driver's license must be exchanged.

Before 1953 - January 19, 2033

1953 to 1958 - January 19, 2022

1959 to 1964 - January 19, 2023

1965 to 1970 - January 19, 2024

1971 or later - January 19, 2025

Driver's licenses issued on or after January 1, 1999*:

Year of issue - date by which driver's license must be exchanged.

1999 to 2001 - January 19, 2026

2002 to 2004 - January 19, 2027

2005 to 2007 - January 19, 2028

2008 - January 19, 2029

2009 - January 19, 2030

2010 - January 19, 2031

2011 - January 19, 2032

2012 to January 18, 2013 - January 19, 2033

(*Driver's license holders whose year of birth is prior to 1953 must exchange their license by January 19, 2033, regardless of the year the license was issued)

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.

Thuringian Ministry for Infrastructure and Agriculture

16.08.2022

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Agency

Stadtverwaltung Gera - StadtService H35
Heinrichstraße 35
07545 Gera

Residents and documents

Registering/registering and deregistering an apartment

  • Application for a federal identity card
  • Passport application
  • Application for a child's passport
  • Official notarization
  • Application for certificate of good conduct/information from the central trade register
  • Registration certificates
  • Registration information (simple information from the current database)

Driving license

  • Creation - initial issue
  • Extension/renewal
  • Registration in accordance with the Professional Driver Qualification Act
  • Accompanied driving from 17
  • Exchange of driver's license/duty driver's license
  • Replacement driver's license after loss or theft
  • International driving license
  • Driver card

Vehicle registration/fine dust

  • Decommissioning
  • Change of address (relocation within Gera)
  • Issue of the fine dust sticker

Business/Taxes

  • Registration/change of address and deregistration of business
  • Payment of basic and dog tax
  • Registration/deregistration of dog tax
  • Replacement dog tax sticker

Social welfare

  • Issue and acceptance of various applications in the area of responsibility of the city of Gera
  • Issue of the social card
  • Notarization for GEZ exemption

Resident parking permit

  • First issue, change, extension of resident parking permit

General information

  • Acceptance and issue of lost property
  • Sale of rent index
  • Sale of various brochures
  • Sale of dog waste bags and AWV garbage bags
  • Sale of tokens FD Health
  • Application for green waste customer card
  • Issue of income tax forms
  • Issue and acceptance of EEG registration/deregistration forms
  • Application for disabled toilet key
  • Applications in accordance with the law for the protection of the population from animal dangers

Name change authority

  • Change of name under public law

Registry office

  • Information from the civil status registers
  • Issue of civil status certificates (birth certificate, marriage certificate, death certificate)
  • Issue of certificate of no impediment to marriage Marriage abroad
  • Marriage and civil partnership
  • Declaration of leaving the church
  • Recognition of paternity at the registry office
  • Change of name under civil law
  • Prefixing or adding a name to the married name
  • Re-adoption of a previously used surname
  • Change of name of a child (granting of name)
  • Changing the name of a child (renaming)
  • Changing the name of a child after receiving joint custody rights
  • Adaptation of foreign name forms to the German language

Specialist area of immigration law/citizenship

  • Asylum law matters
  • Issuing residence permits (residence permit, settlement permit)
  • Declaration of invitation and commitment
  • Issuance of citizenship cards
  • Naturalization

Residents and documents

  • Registration/change and deregistration of residence
  • Issue of registration certificate/residence certificate
  • Issuing a life certificate
  • Issue of household certificate
  • Issue of certificate of right to examine
  • Information from the population register
  • Official certification
  • Application for certificate of good conduct
  • Application for information from the central trade register
  • Application for documents
  • Transmission and information blocks
Telephone

0365 838-1900

Fax

0365 838-1901

Email

Stadtservice@gera.de

WWW

CityService H35

De-mail

info@gera.de-mail.de

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 15:00

Tuesday 09:00 - 18:00

Wednesday 09:00 - 13:00

Thursday 09:00 - 18:00

Friday 09:00 - 15:00

Saturday 09:00 - 13:00

Book an appointment online

Public Transportation

StopHeinrichstraße

Busalle Buslinien

Tramwayalle Straßenbahnlinien

Parking Lot

Parking PlaceParkhaus in den Gera Arcaden

Fees: Yes

Elevator

No

Wheelchair Accessible

Yes

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Agency

Stadtverwaltung Gera - Abteilung 2450 Kfz-Zulassung/Fahrerlaubnis
Wiesestraße 125
07545 Gera

Telephone

0365 838-2470
Driving license authority

Telephone

0365 838-2450
Vehicle registration

Fax

0365 838-2445

Email

kfz-zulassung@gera.de

WWW

Vehicle registration/driving license authority

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 17:00

Tuesday 09:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 17:00

Thursday 09:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 18:00

Friday 09:00 - 12:00

Note: These times only apply to the vehicle registration office

Monday 09:00 - 12:00

Tuesday 09:00 - 12:00

Thursday 09:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 17:00

Friday 09:00 - 12:00

Please note: These times apply to the driving license authority

Book an appointment online

Public Transportation

StopSchenkendorfstraße

TramwayLinie 3

Parking Lot

Parking PlaceParkplatz gegenüber der KfZ-Zulassung

Fees: No

Elevator

No

Wheelchair Accessible

Yes