Previous periods of service

Below you will find important information on the clarification of periods completed prior to appointment as a civil servant for civil servant pension purposes.

General information

In the case of lifetime civil servant appointments, the possibility of taking into account previous periods of service and employment for the subsequent civil servant pension should be clarified as standard. The crediting of periods must be clarified at the latest before retirement.

Conducive times

According to Section 79 (2) sentence 4 of the Lower Saxony Civil Service Pension Act (NBeamtVG), periods of full-time employment after successful completion of university studies and before appointment as a professor can be taken into account as pensionable periods in the civil service pension and increase the civil service pension if special specialist knowledge was acquired during this time that was beneficial for the performance of the (later) office as a professor.

School, university and training periods

According to Section 12 NBeamtVG, the minimum period of training prescribed in addition to general school education (technical college, university and practical training, preparatory service, standard examination period) can also be taken into account as pensionable service, the period of technical college or university training including the examination period up to three years.

Process

All professors will receive the forms linked below by email from their administrator in the Professorships/Civil Servants department after their appointment as a tenured civil servant. All previous periods of employment, including all periods of training, can be entered in the form to the exact day.

The completed table is returned together with the completed and signed application form to the responsible administrator in the Professorships/Officials department. Together with the personnel files, the application and the table are forwarded to the Lower Saxony State Office for Pay and Pensions (NLBV) in Hanover by the secretariat of the Professorships/Officials department. The NLBV Hannover decides on the recognition of previous periods of service on the basis of the relevant legal regulations and communicates the result in a notification. The decision is sent directly from the NLBV Hannover to the applicant.

 

Forms

To enable you to easily fill out, sign and save writable pdf forms, they should be downloaded to the computer and saved. Use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader or the Adobe Pro version to fill them out and use the DFN certificate (instructions) for digital signatures. 

Further information

Contact

  • Inga Baumann
  • Tobias Kinkel