You will receive the normal old-age pension on application if you

• have reached the standard retirement age and
• have completed the minimum insurance period (waiting period) of 15 years.

All compulsory and voluntary contributions that you have paid or are deemed to have paid to the agricultural pension fund are taken into account in the waiting period of 15 years. Contributions for periods prior to 01.01.1995 are generally only taken into account if they have been paid without gaps.
If a pension equalization was carried out in your favour, the transferred entitlement will be converted into qualifying period months.
Periods from other pension schemes:

• Periods from other pension schemes, for example periods in the statutory pension insurance scheme, can also be counted towards your qualifying period.
• If the external periods overlap with those of the agricultural pension fund, the external periods cannot be credited at the same time.
  • This also applies if you were exempt from compulsory insurance with the pension fund as an entrepreneur during the same period.
  • However, an exemption from compulsory insurance as a contributing family member does not preclude the crediting of third-party periods completed during this time.

The following periods can be taken into account:

• Compulsory contribution periods to a statutory German pension insurance institution and equivalent periods of social insurance in the former GDR,
• periods of exemption from insurance in the statutory pension insurance scheme, for example as
  • civil servant
  • Judge
  • professional or regular soldier and
  • as another person with similar civil servant status
• Periods of exemption from compulsory insurance in the statutory pension insurance scheme, for example
  • Employees and self-employed persons who belong to a professional pension scheme
  • Teachers and educators at private schools, if there is civil servant-like coverage
• certain foreign periods under supranational and intergovernmental law