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If you speak at least a bit of german, or can get someone who does to help you, you can check the following ressources:
Helpful keywords/categories are "mΓΆbliert" (ready-furnished) and especially "Wohnen auf Zeit" (living for a limited time, short-term rental). The latter almost always implies the former.
Furthermore, you can try directly typing "Wohnen auf Zeit" and "Bochum" into google (or whatever other general-purpose search engine you prefer), or even only "Wohnen auf Zeit", and enter "Bochum" as the next step into one of the web sites specialized on short-term rentals turned up by the search.
Upvote:4
What you are looking for is called corporate housing. They go by other names such as "serviced apartments". Basically it is short term accommodation, larger than a hotel room and with a kitchen and other facilities. It's specifically designed for people in your situation, where the stay is long enough to make being in a hotel troublesome but too short to be in the normal rental market, and where an employer is paying the costs. They are significantly larger than a hotel room, usually apartment sized or townhouse sized. They always come not just fully furnished but with everything you need to live a normal life, and often come serviced - i.e. they get cleaned on a regular basis. The price is usually less than a hotel but more than an apartment rental (though probably less than an apartment rental plus furniture etc.)
Places like this exist in most countries. Here is a page talking about them specifically in Germany.
Upvote:8
You have a couple of options:
The classical flat rental market is not what you want. Few landlords will be willing to offer a rental contract for this short time period, and the default style of renting a place in Germany is without furniture. Furnished apartments are quite unusual.
I do not have any connection to any of the mentioned websites (apart from having been a customer).