Before you move from working life to retirement, it is a good idea to seek advice on retirement pensions (see below). This will help you determine whether you meet all the requirements for receiving pension payments and check your insurance history. Ideally, however, you should check the current data on your insurance history, which is sent to you every few years by the pension insurance (Rentenversicherung), in order to ensure that it is correct and that there are no missing data.

It makes sense to seek advice several months before your scheduled retirement date, to ensure that you have enough time to obtain any necessary documentation regarding gaps in your insurance records.

Important: Retirement pensions are not paid out automatically; you must always apply for a pension in advance!
 

Advice on Pensions

Advice on pension insurance issues is provided in an honorary capacity at the university by former colleague Wolf-Dieter Klink: he is advisor to insurants of the German statutory pension insurance (Deutschen Rentenversicherung Bund, DRV).
For contact details for him and other pension advisors in Tübingen, please visit the DRV Baden-Württemberg website (in German only).

The contact details of the DRV regional center in Reutlingen are also available there.

Updated: 03/2024