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The licence to practise entitles you to use the corresponding professional title and to practise the profession.
Citizens of the European Union or the European Economic Area who only wish to work in Germany temporarily and occasionally do not require a licence to practise. However, they must register their activity with the competent authority. Further information can be obtained from the competent authority.
Under certain circumstances, you may also initially receive a professional licence that is restricted in terms of time and specialisation.
Seek free advice on the recognition of your foreign professional qualification. You have a legal right to this counselling. The specially trained staff at the advice centres listed below will discuss with you what options are available with your qualification and which procedure seems to make the most sense. They will also support you in making an application and compiling the necessary documents.
State Recognition Centre for Healthcare Professions (LAfG) in the Stuttgart Regional Council
Note: Your nationality, the origin of your qualification and your residence status have no legal significance.
The competent body will check whether your qualification obtained abroad is equivalent to the corresponding German qualification.
Your qualification will be recognised as equivalent if there are no significant differences between your foreign qualification and the corresponding German qualification.
In addition to your education, the professional experience you have gained in Germany or abroad will also be taken into account. Any significant differences identified can be compensated for by relevant professional experience.
You will be granted a licence to practise if your qualification is recognised as equivalent and the other requirements are also met.
If there are significant differences between your qualification and the German reference qualification, you can take an examination in order to achieve equivalence. You can obtain further information from the competent authority
Automatic recognition (not for psychotherapists):
For qualifications from member states of the European Union, signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and equivalent countries such as Switzerland, the following generally applies:
Your qualification will be recognised without an individual equivalence assessment if the certificate was issued after the accession of the country of training.
Qualifications issued before the cut-off date are generally recognised automatically if you submit a certificate from the competent authority of the country of training stating that the training completed before accession meets the minimum standards of Directive 2005/36/EC. Further information can be obtained from the competent authority.
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The competent authority may request further documents.
Please note: Only send officially certified copies and not originals! An officially certified copy in the original language and an officially certified copy of a German translation are required for foreign-language documents. Translations must be carried out by a publicly appointed or sworn interpreter or translator.
The administrative fee may increase in the event of additional expenses.
The period begins with the receipt of the complete documents.
You must take an examination at the respective chamber of medical professions to prove your specialised language skills at level C1. The competent body will register you with the chamber, which will then contact you.
The language test costs
If you do not pass the exam, you can retake it. However, you will have to pay the fee again for each examination.
You do not have to prove your language skills if you have one of the following qualifications:
Further information can be obtained from the competent authority and the respective Chamber of Healthcare Professions.
machine generated, based on the German release by: Sozialministerium Baden-Württemberg, 27.03.2025
