Teachers without teacher training
Share of newly hired permanent teachers who entered without teacher training (lateral entrants), 2025
33.7% of the teachers hired in the eastern states in 2025 had no teacher training, against 8.8% in the West (3.8 times). In Brandenburg more than half of all new teachers were lateral entrants (52.6%), in Saxony-Anhalt 47.3%. Saxony is the eastern exception at 3.2%.
< 9.0%9.0%17.7%26.5%35.2%≥ 43.9%
Inner-German border 1949–1990 ·16 states · 2025
Former West
8.8%
excl. Berlin
Former East
33.7%
excl. Berlin
Berlin
12.6%
Germany
13.4%
The East's figure is 3.8× the West's (2025).
By state
- Brandenburg52.6%
- Sachsen-Anhalt47.3%
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern39.3%
- Thüringen36.6%
- Bremen15.6%
- Nordrhein-Westfalen12.7%
- Berlin12.6%
- Baden-Württemberg12.5%
- Bayern7.7%
- Hamburg6.2%
- Niedersachsen6.1%
- Hessen4.7%
- Sachsen3.2%
- Schleswig-Holstein3.2%
- Rheinland-Pfalz2.1%
- Saarland0.3%
2025
Notes & caveats
- Lateral entrants = KMK's "sonstige (unbefristete) Lehrkräfte" (formerly "Seiteneinsteiger"): permanent teachers hired without the teacher-training degree and practical training (Vorbereitungsdienst), with or without another master's-level degree (columns 9 and 10), as a share of all new hires (column 11).
- Counts people hired in 2025 into public schools. Our state shares match KMK's own published shares (Grafik 15).
- States differ in how quickly they move lateral entrants into regular teacher status, which also affects the figures.
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| State | Side | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Saarland | west | 0.3% |
| Berlin | berlin | 12.6% |
| Brandenburg | east | 52.6% |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | east | 39.3% |
| Sachsen | east | 3.2% |
| Sachsen-Anhalt | east | 47.3% |
| Thüringen | east | 36.6% |
| Schleswig-Holstein | west | 3.2% |
| Hamburg | west | 6.2% |
| Niedersachsen | west | 6.1% |
| Bremen | west | 15.6% |
| Nordrhein-Westfalen | west | 12.7% |
| Hessen | west | 4.7% |
| Rheinland-Pfalz | west | 2.1% |
| Baden-Württemberg | west | 12.5% |
| Bayern | west | 7.7% |