Fahrerlaubnis: Führerschein Ausstellung der Karteikartenabschrift beantragen

The loss or theft of your old driving license must be reported immediately and you will need a replacement document unless you have waived or wish to waive your driving license. The declaration of renunciation must be submitted to the driving license authority. If you have moved your place of residence to another district or city after acquiring your driver's license and after your old license has been issued, you will need an extract from the local driver's license register (so-called "Karteikartenabschrift") from the issuing authority.

You can request this "index card copy" in advance from the former issuing authority or the driving license authority responsible for your current place of residence can request the index card copy from the issuing authority.

If applicable, you have reported the loss or theft of your driver's license to the police and have proof of the report. At the request of the driving license authority, you may have made an affidavit in accordance with Section 5 of the Road Traffic Act regarding the whereabouts of your lost or otherwise misplaced driving license. You may have received or requested a copy of the index card from the former driving license authority.

You were issued a driving license before 1999 and you have not renounced your driving license.

Fees and expenses are incurred, the amount of which is calculated on the basis of the administrative costs, are set out in the scale of fees for road traffic measures and are determined by the driving license authority. Please contact the competent authority.

The theft of your old driver's license must be reported to the police immediately so that an alert can be issued at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Office of Criminal Investigation. If there are no indications that a criminal offense is the cause of the loss, the driving license authority will initiate the search alert at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Office of Criminal Investigation. You apply to the driving license authority for the reissue of a driving license for your driving license issued before 1999. If your driver's license has been lost or otherwise misplaced, you will be will not be able to comply with the obligation to present your driver's license as proof of your driving license. If necessary, the driving license authority will require you to provide an affidavit stating the whereabouts of the lost driving license. The driving license authority will obtain information from the driving aptitude register, the central driving license register and/or foreign registers as to whether your driving license has been revoked provisionally or with final effect by a court or immediately enforceable or with final effect by an administrative authority. If the driver's license was issued before 1999, the now competent driving license authority will ask the former authority for a copy of the index card. Once the driving license authority has ascertained that you, as the applicant, hold the relevant driving license, it will commission the Bundesdruckerei to produce a new driving license, which will be sent to your home address if necessary. If the previous driving license is found again after the new one has been issued, the old driving license must be returned to the relevant driving license authority without delay.

four to six weeks

The loss or theft of the old driver's license must be reported immediately. If the previous driver's license is found again after the new one has been issued, the old driver's license must be handed over to the competent driving license authority without delay.

Transmission of a copy of an index card for the purpose of commissioning the Federal Printing Office to produce a new driving license on the basis of a driving license issued before 1999.

Driving license authority

Contact the driving license authority of your district, independent city or large city belonging to a district. Jurisdiction depends on your place of residence (main residence according to your identity card).