Home-schooling Prohibited
“Home-schooling” is prohibited. Parents’ rights are commonly understood to include the right to choose the form of education of one’s children, including the possibility of non-institutional education, such as so-called home-schooling. Germany, however, allows home-schooling only in the most exceptional circumstances. In general, parents do not have the option to home-school their children. Offenders have to pay fines, and occasionally prison sentences are pronounced.
The law was first drafted as the Nazi-Reichsschulgesetz in 1938. It is now specified in different state laws, with varying fines. The UN special rapporteur on the right to education, Mr. Vernor Munez spoke in his 2006 report on Education in Germany of a “criminalization” of homeschooling. No improvements have since been made. Source and further information: The Observatory's Report 2012 on Legal Restrictions Effecting Christians in Europe