Driver’s license category AM
Light two-wheel motor vehicles of category L1e-B as defined in Article 4(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2013 on the approval and market surveillance of two, three or four-wheel motor vehicles (OJ L 60, 2.3.2013, p. 52). German driving license classes
Category L2e three-wheel mopeds as defined in Article 4(2)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2013 on the approval and market surveillance of two- or three-wheel motorcycles and quadricycles (OJ L 60, 2.3.2013, p. 52)
Light quadricycles of category L6e as defined in Article 4(2)(f) of Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2013 on the approval and market surveillance of two or three-wheel and four-wheel vehicles (OJ L 60, 2.3.2013, p. 52). Minimum age: 16 years. Included categories: none
Driver’s license category A1
motorcycles (including with sidecars) with a cylinder capacity not exceeding 125 cm³ and an engine power not exceeding 11 kW, where the power/weight ratio does not exceed 0.1 kW/kg, and tricycles with symmetrically arranged wheels and a cylinder capacity exceeding 50 cm³ in the case of internal combustion engines or a maximum design speed exceeding 45 km/h and with a power not exceeding 15 kW Minimum age: 16 years. Classes included: AM German driving license classes
Driver’s license class A2
motorcycles (including sidecars) with an engine power not exceeding 35 kW, where the power/weight ratio does not exceed 0,2 kW/kg, not derived from a motorcycle with an engine power exceeding 70 kW
Transitional right: Class A limited driver’s licenses issued before 19.01.2013 are automatically considered as Class A (unlimited) after two years.
Minimum age: 18 years. Included classes: A1 and AM
Class A driver’s license.
Motorcycles (also with sidecar) with a cubic capacity of more than 50 cm³ or with a maximum speed of more than 45 km/h determined by the type of construction.
Minimum age: 24 years (for direct entry), 20 years (with at least 2 years of previous possession of class A2)
motor tricycles with a power output of more than 15 kW and tricycles with symmetrically arranged wheels and a cylinder capacity of more than 50 cm³ in the case of internal combustion engines or a maximum design speed of more than 45 km/h and with
Power of more than 15 kW.
Minimum age: 21 years
Included classes: A2, A1 and AM
Driver’s license class B, BF17
motor vehicles – except for motor vehicles in categories AM, A1, A2 and A with a maximum authorized mass not exceeding 3 500 kg, designed and constructed for the transport of no more than eight persons in addition to the driver (including trailers with a maximum authorized mass not exceeding 750 kg or trailers with a maximum authorized mass exceeding 750 kg, provided that the maximum authorized mass of the combination does not exceed 3 500 kg and three-wheeled motor vehicles in the country, but in the case of a motor vehicle with an engine power exceeding 15 kW only if the holder of the driver’s license is at least 21 years old. German driving license classes
Minimum age: 18 years (17 years for participants in “accompanied driving at 17”)
Included classes: AM and L
Driver’s license category B 96
combinations of vehicles which consist of a tractor vehicle in category B and a trailer, the maximum authorised mass of the trailer being over 750 kg and the maximum authorised mass of the combination exceeding 3 500 kg but not exceeding 4 250 kg
Minimum age: 18 years (17 years for participants in “accompanied driving at 17”), previous possession of a category B driver’s license is required
Included classes: none
Driver’s license class BE (German driver’s license classes)
combinations of vehicles where the tractor vehicle is in category B and a trailer or semi-trailer, provided that the maximum authorised mass of the trailer or semi-trailer does not exceed 3 500 kg.
Minimum age: 18 years (17 years for participants in “accompanied driving at 17”), prior possession of a category B driver’s license is required.
Included classes: none
Class C1 driver’s license.
Motor vehicles, except motor vehicles in categories AM, A1, A2, A, D1 and D with a maximum authorised mass of more than 3 500 kg but not more than 7500 kg, designed and constructed for the transport of not more than eight persons in addition to the driver (including trailers with a maximum authorised mass not exceeding 750 kg).
Minimum age: 18 years, previous possession of a category B driver’s license is required.
Included classes: none
Class C1E driver’s license
Vehicle combinations consisting of a towing vehicle of
category C1 and a trailer or semi-trailer with a maximum authorised mass exceeding 750 kg, provided that the authorised mass of the vehicle combination does not exceed 12 000 kg,
of category B and a trailer or semi-trailer with a maximum authorised mass exceeding 3 500 kg, provided that the maximum authorised mass of the vehicle combination does not exceed 12 000 kg.
Minimum age: 18 years, prior possession of a C1 driver’s license is required
Included classes: BE and D1E, provided that the holder is entitled to drive vehicles in category D1.
Class C driver’s license.
Motor vehicles, with the exception of motor vehicles in categories AM, A1, A 2, A, D1 and D with a maximum authorised mass exceeding 3 500 kg, designed and constructed for the transport of no more than eight persons in addition to the driver (including trailers with a maximum authorised mass not exceeding 750 kg).
Minimum age: 21 years, prior possession of a category B driver’s license is required.
Included classes: C1
Class CE driver’s license.
combinations of vehicles consisting of a tractor vehicle in category C and trailers or a semi-trailer with a maximum authorised mass exceeding 750 kg
Minimum age: 21 years, prior possession of a category C driver’s license is required.
Included classes: BE, C1E, T and DE, provided he is entitled to drive vehicles in category D
Driver’s license class D1
motor vehicles, except for motor vehicles in categories AM, A1, A2, A, designed and constructed for the transport of no more than 16 passengers in addition to the driver and with a length of no more than 8 m (including trailers with a maximum permissible mass not exceeding 750 kg)
Minimum age: 21 years, prior possession of a category B driver’s license is required.
Included classes: none
Driver’s license class D1E
combinations of vehicles where the tractor vehicle is in category D1 and its trailer has a maximum authorised mass of over 750 kg.
Minimum age: 21 years, prior possession of a D1 category driver’s license is required.
Included classes: BE
Driver’s license class D
motor vehicles, except motor vehicles in categories AM, A1, A2, A, designed and constructed for the transport of more than eight persons in addition to the driver (including trailers with a maximum permissible mass not exceeding 750 kg)
Minimum age: 24 years, prior possession of a category B driver’s license is required.
Class included: D1
Driver’s license class DE
combinations of vehicles where the tractor vehicle is in category D and its trailer has a maximum authorised mass of over 750 kg
Minimum age: 24 years, previous possession of a category D driver’s license is required.
Class included: BE, D1E
Driver’s license class T
Tractors with a maximum design speed of not more than 60 km/h and self-propelled machinery with a maximum design speed of not more than 40 km/h, each designed and constructed for and used for agricultural or forestry purposes (also with trailers)
Minimum age: 16 years at 40 km/h (bbH) and 18 years at 60 km/h (bbH)
Class included: L, AM
Tractors designed and constructed for agricultural or forestry purposes, with a maximum design speed of not more than 40 km/h, and combinations of such vehicles and trailers when towed at a speed of not more than 25 km/h, and self-propelled machinery, self-propelled forage mixers, lift trucks and other industrial trucks, with a maximum design speed of not more than 25 km/h, and combinations of such vehicles and trailers.
Minimum age: 16 years
Included classes: none
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