Overview

• Berlin reports that only about 17 percent of recent hires hold a full teaching degree, with roughly 2,000 teaching students, nearly 300 retirees, and 184 career-changers covering gaps.
• Brandenburg reduced its staffing plan by 345 full-time posts, prompting AfD and CDU demands to restore the positions via a rapid supplementary budget as an added weekly hour is slated for the second half-year.
• Hamburg starts the year with 620 new teachers but 58 advertised vacancies, with shortages concentrated in MINT subjects plus music and theater, and student leaders warning of too few specialized informatics teachers.
• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern lists 397 open teaching posts, mostly permanent, with final hiring figures due September 9 and unions highlighting retirements outpacing new entrants.
• In Saxony-Anhalt, Die Linke seeks to end the compulsory extra teaching hour by the close of 2025/26, as multiple lawsuits proceed and the Federal Administrative Court hearing is set for September 4.