Prerequisites
- You have a paper driving license, a permanent card driving license or an expired card driving license.
- Her main residence is in Hamburg.
- You submit the application in person.
Documents required
- Your valid identification document (identity card, passport, passport substitute) and, if applicable,
- Your eID card or
- Your (electronic) residence permit
- biometric passport photo
- current driving license
- Appointment confirmation
- For paper driving licenses that were not issued in Hamburg: index card copy (available from the authority that issued your old driving license)
Additionally for an extension of a truck driving license of the old classes 2 and 3:
- an ophthalmological report in accordance with Annex 6 of the Driving Licence Regulations (FeV) not older than two years
- a medical report according to Annex 5.1 of the FeV not older than one year
If you are no longer interested in renewing your old vehicle classes and ownership rights, you do not need a certificate. You can then continue to drive vehicles up to 7.5 tons plus trailers over 3.5 tons (provided the total weight does not exceed 12 tons).
Please note
With the old Class 3 license, an extension to drive vehicles over 7.5 tons (CE 79) is no longer possible without further ado. You will receive a Class BE driver's license upon exchange.
If you wish to obtain additional driving license classes, you will need to submit additional documents. If you have been over 50 for more than five years, you will also need to take a theoretical and practical test for classes C and CE (formerly class 2). Alternatively, you can forgo class 2.
Deadlines
For paper driving licenses, the year of birth of the license holder is decisive:
- before 1953: Exchange until 19.01.2033
- 1953 to 1958: Exchange until 19.07.2022
- 1959 to 1964: Exchange until January 19, 2023
- 1965 to 1970: Exchange until January 19, 2024
- 1971 or later: Exchange until January 19, 2025
For unlimited card driving licenses, the year of issue of the driving license applies:
- 1999 to 2001: Exchange until January 19, 2026
- 2002 to 2004: Exchange until January 19, 2027
- 2005 to 2007: Exchange until January 19, 2028
- 2008: Exchange until January 19, 2029
- 2009: Exchange until January 19, 2030
- 2010: Exchange until January 19, 2031
- 2011: Exchange until January 19, 2032
- 2012 to 18 January 2013: Exchange until 19.01.2033
Class B driving licenses issued after January 19, 2013, are already valid for 15 years. Please adhere to the expiration date on your document.
