Health insurance

In order to complete your enrolment (Immatrikulation) as a student, you need to provide proof that you have health insurance. This is a German legal requirement.

  • Students from EU countries can usually stay with the health insurance coverage from their own country if they have a European health insurance card. However, if you work part-time alongside their studies, you also need to get German health insurance.
  • Students from non-EU countries are required to get German health insurance.

IMPORTANT: You must provide proof of health insurance from the beginning of the semester (starting 01.10. or 01.04.). If you are entering Germany at a later date, you can submit a travel insurance for the interim period (up to three months). As soon as you enter Germany, you must register for German health insurance and submit proof to the Admissions Office of HAW Hamburg (Studierendensekretariat). This proof must be submitted to the Admissions Office within three months of the start of the semester; otherwise we will unfortunately have to de-register you from the university.

German health insurance – public or private?

Public health insurance

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Private health insurance

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Comparing health insurance providers

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Important information

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