Imprint
This is a translation. The German Impressum is the reference.
Information under § 5 DDG
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E-mail: gectim@mefby.com
An independent project
Geçtim is an independent project and has no connection with the Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF) or any other public authority. The content is for test preparation and is no substitute for legal advice.
Sources
Questions: Annex 1 to the Einbürgerungstestverordnung (Anlage 1 EinbTestV), published by the Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge as the ‘Gesamtfragenkatalog zum Test Leben in Deutschland und zum Einbürgerungstest’. As part of a regulation, the catalogue is not protected by copyright (§ 5(1) UrhG, the German Copyright Act); the rights to individual pictures are listed under ‘Picture credits’.
Correct answers: the answer key of the leben-in-deutschland-app project, published under the MIT licence; every answer was also checked separately.
Turkish translations and explanations: written for Geçtim.
Pictures: from the question catalogue. We decided on each picture individually: some are shown unchanged, others are replaced by a description or a different picture.
English translations and explanations, and the German explanations: written for Geçtim.
Source: Anlage 1 EinbTestV
Catalogue as of 7 May 2025
Picture credits
Pictures on this website with a named rights holder:
- Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Question 55) Source of the picture
- In Anlehnung an Bundeswahlordnung (BWO), Anlage 26 (Question 130)
Licence texts
The licence texts of the open content we use, in their original language:
Third-party notices
leben-in-deutschland/leben-in-deutschland-app
Used for:
- the PDF extractor in scripts/catalogue/ (vendored, with local edits marked gectim:);
- the answer key in content/source/answer-source.json (trimmed to question, answers and solution).
Source: https://github.com/leben-in-deutschland/leben-in-deutschland-app at commit 257812d72a6c1a1645509f3be65f25192e6fbd55.
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Official question catalogue
The question texts are Anlage 1 of the Einbürgerungstestverordnung, published by the Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge as "Gesamtfragenkatalog zum Test „Leben in Deutschland" und zum „Einbürgerungstest"". As an official work it carries no copyright (§5 UrhG). Pictures may carry third-party rights; see content/images/AUDIT.md.
Photograph of the Reichstag building (question 55)
"Pediment and dome of the Reichstag building, Berlin" by Christian David (User:Espandero), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pediment_and_dome_of_the_Reichstag_building,_Berlin.jpg
Changed: scaled down to 1600 pixels wide and saved as JPEG (content/images/replacements/55-1.jpg). This copy stands under the same licence.
Fonts: Newsreader and Hanken Grotesk
Used for: the website's typefaces, self-hosted from the npm packages @fontsource-variable/newsreader 5.3.0 and @fontsource-variable/hanken-grotesk 5.3.0 (the font files only).
Sources: https://github.com/productiontype/Newsreader and https://github.com/marcologous/hanken-grotesk. Both are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1:
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