Medical Certificate in Stuttgart: Online, Same-Day from €34.99
- Certificate types covering every common use case in Germany
- Licensed doctors (Ärzte) reviewing every case via a real video consultation, never a questionnaire alone
- Same-day delivery, usually within 30 minutes on weekdays
- Full refund if the doctor cannot issue your certificate
- 🇩🇪 EUR pricing
- DSGVO & BDSG data protection
- Accepted by employers, Krankenkassen & sports clubs
Yes. From Stuttgart, your case is reviewed online by a registered doctor, with no appointment and no travel. All six certificate types are a flat €34.99, delivered as a PDF. It states the doctor's findings for an employer, school, club or insurer in Germany. It is not the eAU that a treating practice transmits to your Krankenkasse.
Last updated: 10 September 2026
Reviewed by Dr. Anjum Ilahi (MBBS, MS) GMC · Cardiology and MRCPI
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Getting a Medical Certificate in Stuttgart
Stuttgart sits at the centre of the German automotive industry, with Mercedes-Benz and Porsche both headquartered in the region alongside a wide base of engineering and manufacturing suppliers. Production and engineering employers often run on shift patterns, and shift-based workplaces tend to have a written absence procedure sitting on top of the statutory minimum — check your own contract for what it actually says.
The University of Stuttgart adds a substantial engineering-focused student population to the city. Illness affecting exams, coursework or a placement is generally handled through the university's own formal process, with its own evidence requirements.
There's no clinic in Stuttgart to book into — the review takes place online, and the doctor assessing your case is registered to do so anywhere in Germany. You don't need an appointment slot or a journey across the city to get looked at.
The Stuttgart region's employment concentration is larger than its headline names suggest. Bosch alone employs around 37,000 people in the greater Stuttgart area, more than 15,000 of them in Feuerbach, and Mercedes-Benz's Untertürkheim plant employs roughly 12,500, with more than 23,000 people working at that site in total. At that scale absence handling is systematised: named contacts, written deadlines, payroll software that retrieves electronic certificates automatically, and works agreements that can set requirements tighter than the statutory minimum. The practical implication is that the certificate is the easy part — knowing your own site's submission route is the part worth sorting out while you are still well.
For care, Klinikum Stuttgart is the city's maximum-care provider across three sites: the Katharinenhospital, which with around 880 beds is the largest hospital in the region, the Krankenhaus Bad Cannstatt and the Olgahospital children's hospital, with the Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus as a further large independent hospital. Getting to any of them is its own problem, because Stuttgart sits in a basin and journeys that look short on a map involve valley slopes, tunnels and a rail network that has been a construction site for years. There is a pronounced autumn peak in hospitality and security shift work too: the Cannstatter Volksfest, Germany's second largest folk festival, ran seventeen days from 26 September to 12 October in 2025 on a 35-hectare site by the Neckar. Short-term contracts around it carry the same documentation duties as any other job, usually with a tighter internal notification deadline.
The automotive industry
Mercedes-Benz and Porsche are both headquartered in the Stuttgart region, alongside a wide base of engineering suppliers. Production sites often run shift patterns with a written absence procedure.
University of Stuttgart
A large engineering-focused student population. Illness affecting exams or coursework is handled through the institution's own process.
Engineering and manufacturing suppliers
A wide base of firms supplying the automotive industry, many with their own written absence procedures on top of the statutory minimum.
Club and school sport
Sports clubs across Stuttgart commonly ask for medical clearance before participation, particularly for underage and contact sport.
All Certificate Types Available in Germany
Every certificate type is reviewed by a licensed doctor via a genuine video consultation and assessed against German requirements. Choose the one that matches your situation.
Sick Leave Certificate (AU)
Issued as an Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung (AU) for work absence in Germany, after a real video consultation, and transmitted electronically (eAU) to your Krankenkasse and, where required, your employer.
From €34.99Sports Fitness Certificate
For German school sports, Sportverein youth football and handball clearance, and competitions requiring medical fitness confirmation. Valid 12 months.
From €34.99General Fitness Certificate
For German gym membership and personal training sign-up where a health declaration is requested.
From €34.99General Medical Certificate
For insurance claims, visa applications, and other general documentation needs in Germany.
From €34.99How It Works in Stuttgart
Complete assessment
3-5 minutes. Select your certificate type, confirm Germany as your country, and answer relevant health questions. No payment yet.
Doctor conducts a video consultation
A licensed physician reviews your case and, for sick leave (AU) certificates, completes a genuine video consultation with you, as required under German law. Reviewed during German business hours (9am-6pm CET/CEST, Monday-Friday). May request more information.
Receive your PDF
Emailed same day, usually within 30 minutes of approval, with doctor credentials and a verification reference. For AU certificates, your doctor also completes the eAU transmission to your Krankenkasse where required.
Who Asks for a Medical Certificate in Stuttgart
Stuttgart employers
A certificate from a doctor registered to assess cases in Germany satisfies the documentation most employers ask for. Under §5 EntgFG, your employer may require it from day 1 or day 4, depending on your contract — shift-based manufacturing employers often set their own submission deadlines.
University of Stuttgart and colleges
Commonly requested as supporting evidence where illness has affected exams, coursework or a placement. Each institution sets its own evidence requirements.
Clubs and gyms
Sports clubs and gyms across the city may ask for medical clearance before participation, particularly for contact sport.
Insurers and other bodies
General medical certificates are sometimes requested for insurance claims or similar administrative purposes, where what matters is that a genuine assessment took place.
Germany Pricing: All Certificate Types
| Certificate Type | Our Price | Typical Private Visit |
|---|---|---|
| Sick Leave Certificate (AU) | €34.99 | €50-€120 |
| Sports Fitness Certificate | €34.99 | €50-€120 |
| General Fitness Certificate | €34.99 | €50-€120 |
| Fit to Fly Certificate | €34.99 | €50-€120 |
| Return to Work Certificate | €34.99 | €50-€120 |
| General Medical Certificate | €34.99 | €50-€120 |
Typical private in-person doctor visit costs are general ranges reported for German private consultations and vary by clinic, specialty (a sports medicine or travel-clinic assessment can cost more than a routine GP visit), and location within Germany.
The price difference mainly reflects convenience rather than a lower quality of assessment: a genuine video consultation with a licensed doctor still takes place for AU certificates, and you avoid travel time, waiting-room time, and the need to take unplanned time off to visit a practice in person. For non-AU certificate types, such as a fitness or fit-to-fly certificate, our fixed price also removes the uncertainty of a private clinic's individual consultation fee, which can vary considerably between providers and cities.
Germany Legal Snapshot: What Applies in Stuttgart
Sick-leave and certificate rules are set nationally, so what follows applies in Stuttgart exactly as it does anywhere else in Germany.
Yes — you can get a medical certificate (doctor's note) in Germany online, reviewed by a registered doctor and usually issued the same day, from €34.99. In Germany, the standard sick-leave document is the Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung (AU): literally the "certificate of incapacity to work." The statutory minimum is that employers can require an AU from day 4 of illness, though many employers use their contractual right to request one from day 1. Since 2023, the AU has been transmitted electronically as the eAU, sent directly between your doctor, your statutory health insurer (Krankenkasse), and your employer. For sport, gym, travel, or general purposes, a separate certificate type applies. See the full list below. In everyday English this is often just called a doctor's note for Germany, even where the official local term differs.
| Local document name | Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung (AU): German for "certificate of incapacity to work." Often just called a Krankschreibung in everyday speech. |
|---|---|
| Statutory minimum | An AU can be required by your employer from day 4 of illness |
| Employer-specific rule | Many employers use their contractual right under German law to require an AU from day 1 of absence instead. Check your contract or ask HR which rule applies to you |
| Who can legally issue it | A licensed physician (Arzt), after a genuine clinical assessment carried out in person or by video consultation |
| Electronic transmission (eAU) | In place since 2023: the AU is sent directly between your doctor, your Krankenkasse, and, where applicable, your employer |
| Submission deadline | Inform your employer without delay, and submit the AU per your employer's required timeline (day 1 or day 4, depending on company policy) |
| Governing framework | §5 of the Entgeltfortzahlungsgesetz (EntgFG, the Continued Remuneration Act) |
| Data protection law | DSGVO, the German name for the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies directly, together with the BDSG (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz), Germany's national law supplementing it |
Note on day-1 vs day-4 rules: German law sets day 4 of illness as the statutory minimum point at which an employer can require an AU. In practice, many employment contracts and company sickness policies validly require an AU from day 1 of absence instead. Confirm which rule applies to you with your employer or HR department before you rely on either timeline.
Our Germany Medical Team
Every Germany certificate is reviewed by a doctor registered to assess cases in Germany. Physicians practising in Germany are subject to oversight by the Bundesärztekammer (German Medical Association) together with the relevant state medical chamber (Landesärztekammer), and registration details can be independently checked through those bodies. A clinician will only issue a certificate, including an Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung (AU), after a genuine video consultation, and only if it is clinically appropriate to do so; if it is not, you receive a full refund.
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Reg. #Medical Certificates in Stuttgart: Common Questions
No. The assessment is completed online and reviewed by a doctor registered to assess cases in Germany, so where you are in the country makes no difference to the process or the price. This page exists because people search for their own city.
Not the statutory position, which applies nationally. It often changes the practical one: shift-based manufacturing workplaces tend to have a written absence procedure setting out who to notify and by when. Your contract or staff handbook is the place to check.
Our certificate is €34.99 flat, including the doctor's review, the PDF and its verification reference. A typical private in-person consultation in Germany commonly falls in the €50-€120 range. It is not a substitute for care — if you need to be examined or treated, see a doctor in person.
It depends on your contract. §5 EntgFG allows employers to require a certificate from day 4 of illness, but many employers use their own contractual right to ask for one from day 1 instead. Check your employment contract rather than assuming.
Same day, usually within 30 minutes of the doctor approving your case during business hours. Some cases take longer where the doctor needs more information before deciding.
Not by us. On the statutory route your practice transmits the incapacity data to your health insurer, which is how your employer retrieves it and how sick pay beyond the employer-paid period is administered. A privately obtained certificate is not part of that transmission, so your insurer does not receive it automatically. That matters if an absence is long enough for statutory sick pay to come into play, because then certification has to run through the normal route with a treating doctor. For a short absence covered by employer-paid continued pay, it does not arise.
No. The fee is €34.99 whenever you request it and whichever of the six types you need, with no surcharge for an evening, a weekend or a rush. What varies out of hours is how quickly a doctor reviews the case, not the price. Set against a private in-person consultation this is a narrower service at a lower price — if what you actually need is examination or treatment, pay for the consultation instead.
No, and it is better to say so plainly. A resting or exercise ECG, blood pressure measurement and an exertion test have to be done in person, so where a club, federation or competitive licence requires a sports-medicine examination, a sports-medicine practice is what you need. A Sports Fitness certificate covers the other and much commoner case: a club or gym that wants a doctor's statement that there is nothing against participation. Ask your club which of the two it means before spending anything.
No. Notification and documentation are separate duties: notification is immediate and governed by your contract or works agreement, and documentation follows. A works agreement at a large Stuttgart plant will typically name who to call, by when, and how a certificate must be submitted — and missing the call causes more trouble than a document arriving a day later. Deal with the call first and the paperwork second.
Probably not. Fitness for commercial driving, forklift operation, work at height and other safety-relevant duties is a statutory occupational-health matter in Germany: the examination is carried out in person by a company doctor or an authorised physician against a defined standard, and an online General Fitness certificate does not substitute for it. General Fitness fits the everyday case — a course, a placement, an activity, or an employer that simply wants a doctor's statement that nothing stands in the way. If the request came with a prescribed form to be filled in, that is a strong sign you need the in-person route.
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Every certificate is issued by a doctor registered with their national medical council, after a real assessment, and carries a reference code that resolves instantly - whether your employer is in Dublin, Berlin or Warsaw.
- ✓Issued only after a genuine clinical review
- ✓Unique reference code, checkable by anyone
- ✓Covers sick leave, fitness-to-work & carer's leave
- ✓Delivered as a signed PDF within the hour
