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retirement savings in Germany, how much do I need?
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this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2026
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I think you want to have all three pillars going, normally you save in some kind of stock market pension fund.
I don't live in Germany, but lot of countries in EU have similar system. Over here in Sweden, you can easily see an overview and your projected pension at retirement age by logging into one of government offered e-services, maybe Germany has something similar.
What number you need to reach - is completely up to you of course.
Germany's government usually only does e-services kicking and screaming.
They send a letter once per year with a summary and an estimation of how much your pension will be if you keep contributing the same amount. Not sure how that takes inflation into account, €2k in 2025 will not have the same value in 2055, but yeah …