Overview

• Brandenburg confirmed a reduction of 345 budgeted full‑time posts, offset by a mandatory extra weekly lesson for most teachers from the second half‑year.
• The state reported about 255 full‑time vacancies (roughly 1.3–1.5%), 1,533 permanent and 1,142 fixed‑term hires, and a record 46.3% of new recruits entering via side‑entry.
• Education minister Steffen Freiberg said core timetables are secured but warned schools may pare back choirs, theater groups or student newspapers, with a larger substitute budget worth 388 full‑time posts to cushion absences.
• Thuringia launched a program to appoint newly qualified primary teachers to grades 5–6 at Regelschulen with a 10% salary supplement for five years, drawing criticism from the German Teachers’ Association over qualification concerns.
• Hamburg counted 58 unfilled positions out of 16,123 and 620 new hires, while Lower Saxony reported a 43.1% part‑time rate and the Federal Administrative Court heard a case on Saxony‑Anhalt’s weekly add‑on lesson.