Driving school — Germany
Theory, driving hours and exam preparation, taught by instructors who tell you plainly where you stand after every lesson.
Most people arrive with the same two questions: how long will this take, and what am I supposed to do first. So we answer them before you sign anything. A licence in Germany is made of parts that have to happen in a certain order — registration with the authority, the theory block, your practical hours, the special drives on the Autobahn, overland and at night, then the two exams. None of it is mysterious. It is just a list, and we walk you down it.
Your first practical hour is usually a quiet one: a car park or an empty industrial street, clutch or no clutch, mirrors, and getting used to a car that has a second set of pedals on the instructor's side. From there we add traffic in a sequence that matches what you can already do, not what the calendar says. If something isn't ready — roundabouts, parking, the motorway merge — we say so out loud and we practise it rather than booking you into an exam to find out.
Nobody can promise you a number of lessons, and we don't. What we can promise is that you will always know what the next lesson is for, what you are still missing, and roughly how far from the exam you are.
The rooms, the cars and the people you'll be spending your Tuesdays with.
Every training car has pedals on the right-hand side, so the first lessons are safe to get wrong in. You keep the same instructor through your course unless you ask to change.
Autobahn, overland and night driving are required hours, and they are the ones learners most often get rushed through. We schedule them as proper lessons with a route and a purpose.
At the end of each lesson you hear what went well, what is still shaky and what the next hour will work on. No guessing how close you are to being ready.
Open the app, see which hours your instructor has free, take one. Cancel or move it there too instead of playing phone tag with the office.
Sessions explain the rules the way they show up at a junction, and the official question catalogue is in the app for the evenings in between.
Learn on a clutch, or take the automatic route with the extra manual hours so your licence still covers both. We'll explain which suits how you'll actually drive.
Every student gets our companion app, and it is not a brochure. It is where your course lives between lessons: the hours you have driven, the ones still missing, the theory questions you keep getting wrong, and the free slots in your instructor's week.
Three things it saves you. First, booking — you see real availability and take a slot at eleven at night if that's when you remembered. Second, theory — the official question catalogue, sorted so you practise the categories you are weak in rather than scrolling past the ones you already know. Third, knowing where you stand — after each practical hour your instructor marks off what was covered, so the list of what's left is the same list in both your heads.
You don't need to install anything to talk to us. The app comes with the course; the enquiry below is a form and a person, nothing more.
Honestly, nobody can tell you at the start — it depends on how often you drive, whether you've sat in a car before and how quickly traffic stops feeling loud. German rules set a minimum of required special drives, and everything beyond that is what your instructor judges you need. We tell you after a handful of hours what a realistic total looks like for you, and we update it rather than letting it drift.
For a class B licence in Germany you generally need a valid ID or passport, a biometric photo, proof of an eye test and a completed first-aid course. We go through the list with you at the first appointment and tell you which parts you can still sort out while the theory block runs.
No — you can start practical lessons while you are still working through theory, and most students do. You do need to have passed the theory exam before you are allowed to sit the practical one, so we usually plan the theory date early and keep driving around it.
Yes. The B197 route means you train mostly in an automatic, complete a set number of manual hours and a manual test drive, then take the exam in the automatic. The licence you get is valid for manual cars too. If you only ever intend to drive automatics, the simpler restricted route is also an option — we'll explain the difference before you choose.
It is more common than people think and it is not the end of the course. There is a waiting period before you can retake, and we use it: we work on exactly what the examiner marked, with mock drives under the same conditions, and book the new date when your instructor says you're ready.
Send your name and email with whatever you want to know — which course fits, what registration needs, whether you can start this month.
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