Services and information on the topic: Certificates
The public authorities can issue a range of certificates. For example, registry offices issue birth, marriage and death certificates from the civil status register.
- Applying for recognition of the International Baccalaureate Diploma/Diplôme du Baccalauréat International as a university entrance qualificationOnline service availableContact person available
- Use academic degrees, titles and designations from foreign universitiesOnline service availableContact person available
- Airworthiness Review Certificate (ARC): Apply for issue and submit ARCOnline service availableContact person available
- Apply for a theoretical examination for aviation personnel (ATPL, MPL, CPL, IR, CB-IR, BIR, FI)Online service availableContact person available
- Apply for approval to manufacture aeronautical productsOnline service availableContact person available
- Bericht des Prüfers EntgegennahmeOnline service availableContact person available
- Pilotenlizenz Ausstellung NeuausstellungOnline service availableContact person available
- Pilotenlizenz Eintragung Automatische ValidierungOnline service availableContact person available
- Pilotenlizenz Eintragung SprachenvermerkOnline service availableContact person available
- Pilotenlizenz Erteilung LizenzOnline service availableContact person available
- Applying for re-certification of a birth abroad without a place of residence in Germany
- Birth certificate; Exhibition
- Birth certificate issue for home births
- Birth certificate issued at birth abroad as well as in the former German territories or from the consular and colonial registers
- Birth certificate issued multilingual
- Certified printout from the birth register exhibition
- Have your birth abroad certified
- Notarisation for births on seagoing vessels
- Apply for a certificate of notification of death
- Apply for a multilingual death certificate form
- Death abroad Notarisation
- Death abroad Notarisation of deaths on seagoing vessels
- Death abroad Notarisation of Germans without domestic residence
- Death certificate issuance
- Death certificate issued in case of death abroad
- Death certificate issued in case of death on German seagoing vessels
- Mortuary passport
- Age and marriage anniversariesContact person available
- Awarding of the Freiherr-vom-Stein Certificate of Honor to municipalities / citiesOnline service availableContact person available
- Awarding of the Freiherr-vom-Stein plaque to municipalities / citiesOnline service availableContact person available
- Awarding of the Freiherr-vom-Stein plaque to public figuresOnline service availableContact person available
- Honors for lifesaversContact person available
- Municipal honorsOnline service available
- Applying for a day hunting license for the first time
- Hunting licenseOnline service available
- Hunting license New issue of daily hunting license
- Hunting license reissue Annual hunting license
- Hunting license Re-issue of daily hunting license
- Hunting license replacement
- Youth hunting licence Issuance of day hunting licence
- Youth hunting license Issue of annual hunting license
- Apply for a single certificate of inheritanceContact person available
- Applying for a certificate of sole inheritance due to statutory successionContact person available
- Applying for a joint certificate of inheritanceContact person available
- Applying for a joint certificate of inheritance according to intestate successionContact person available
- Applying for a joint certificate of inheritance on the basis of intestate successionContact person available
- Applying for a limited joint certificate of inheritance as a prior or subsequent heirContact person available
- Applying for a limited joint certificate of inheritance as a prior or subsequent heirContact person available
- Contract of inheritanceContact person available
- InheritanceContact person available
- Joint certificate of inheritance confiscationContact person available
- Joint certificate of inheritance Granting of disposition of property upon deathContact person available
- Joint certificate of inheritance Granting of joint certificate of partial inheritanceContact person available
- Joint certificate of inheritance Granting of partial certificate of inheritance Disposition by reason of deathContact person available
- Joint certificate of inheritance Granting of partial certificate of inheritance Prior or subsequent heirContact person available
- Joint certificate of inheritance Granting of partial certificate of inheritance Subject to restrictionsContact person available
- Joint certificate of inheritance Granting of prior or subsequent heirsContact person available
- Joint certificate of inheritance Issuance limited to the subject matterContact person available
- Joint certificate of inheritance Issue of joint minimum divisional certificate of inheritanceContact person available
- Living will
- Precautionary power of attorney
- Registering health care proxies and advance care directives in the central register of health care proxiesOnline service availableContact person available
- Requesting the return of an officially deposited disposition of property upon death (e.g. will)Contact person available
- Sole certificate of inheritance Granting of limited certificate of inheritanceContact person available
- Sole heir certificate confiscationContact person available
- Sole heir certificate Granting of disposition of property upon deathContact person available
- Waiver of the inheritance MinutesContact person available
- Application for a certificate of no impediment to marriage for German nationals, stateless persons, homeless foreigners or foreign refugees within the meaning of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees with habitual residence in Germany
- Apply for a marriage certificate
- Certificate of no impediment to marriage Exemption for foreignersContact person available
- Certificate of no impediment to marriage Issuance of Germans without ever residing in Germany
- Issuance of a certificate of no impediment to marriage for stateless persons, persons entitled to asylum, recognized refugees and persons whose nationality cannot be determined with habitual residence in Germany
- Marriage annulmentContact person available
- Marriage consummation
- Marriage Registration of marriages concluded abroad by Germans without domicile in Germany
- Notarisation of a marriage abroad by a German registry office
- Register marriage
- First name change
- First name Change of order
- Name
- Naming rights
- Submit a declaration on the name of spouses without a domestic marriage or marriage entry
- Surname Change Child - Declaration of Affiliation
- Surname Change Child - Naming
- Surname Change due to the declaration of expellees, ethnic German repatriates, their spouses and descendants
- Surname Change due to the declaration on the use of names of spouses (married name)
- Surname Change due to the declaration on the use of the name of life partners (civil partnership name)
- Surname Change of child - Redefinition of the birth name in the case of joint custody established later
- Surname Change Re-adoption of maiden name
- Apply for permission to use the professional title Medical DocumentarianContact person available
- EU-Konformitätsbescheinigung für Apotheker EntgegennahmeOnline service availableContact person available
- EU-Konformitätsbescheinigung für Ärzte EntgegennahmeOnline service availableContact person available
- EU-Konformitätsbescheinigung für Zahnärzte EntgegennahmeOnline service availableContact person available
- Confirmation of registration issuance
- Extended registration register informationOnline service available
- Issuing information from the population register
- Population register information - Provision of self-disclosure
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Registration register information - issuing group information
- Registration register information in special cases - Issuance to landlords
- Simple population register information
- Apply for a Green Gun Possession Card for an individualOnline service available
- Apply for a shooting permit
- Applying for a red gun ownership card for gun or ammunition collectors
- Authorisation to acquire and possess weapons and ammunition Grant to purchasers following an inheritance
- Authorisation to acquire and possess weapons and ammunition Issuing red WBK to weapons or ammunition experts
- Gun licenseOnline service available
- Installation of a blocking system for inherited weapons Display
- Permission to acquire, possess and carry weapons and ammunition Issued to individuals with an existing green firearms possession card
- Permission to take weapons or ammunition into, through or out of the area of application of the Weapons Act Extension
- Permit to carry firearms (firearms license) Renewal
- Weapon Possession Card for Sport Shooters (yellow WBK)Online service available
- Weapons and ammunition - apply for permission to take them with you
- Apply for a pleasure craft licenseOnline service availableContact person available
- Apply for seafarer's identity cardContact person available
- Applying for a replacement copy of a recreational craft licenseOnline service availableContact person available
- Applying for the transfer of recognized qualifications to a recreational craft licenceOnline service availableContact person available
- Long Range Certificate (LRC) Erteilung ErsatzausfertigungOnline service availableContact person available
- Long Range Certificate (LRC) Erteilung nach PrüfungOnline service availableContact person available
- Long Range Certificate (LRC) UmschreibungOnline service availableContact person available
- Short Range Certificate (SRC) Erteilung ErsatzausfertigungOnline service availableContact person available
- Short Range Certificate (SRC) Erteilung nach PrüfungOnline service availableContact person available
- Short Range Certificate (SRC) UmschreibungOnline service availableContact person available
- UKW-Sprechfunkzeugnis (UBI) Ausstellung ErsatzausfertigungOnline service availableContact person available
- UKW-Sprechfunkzeugnis (UBI) Ausstellung nach PrüfungOnline service availableContact person available
- Aircraft radio certificates: Apply for admission to the examOnline service availableContact person available
- Apply for admission to the amateur radio serviceOnline service availableContact person available
- Apply for an Aircraft Station Licence call signOnline service availableContact person available
- Apply for number assignment for recreational or commercial shipping (Ship Station License)Online service availableContact person available
- Apply for participation in an amateur radio examinationOnline service availableContact person available
- Apply for the issue of an amateur radio examination certificate or an amateur radio certificateOnline service availableContact person available
- Flugfunkzeugnis Ausstellung ZweitschriftOnline service availableContact person available
- Frequenzzuteilung Erteilung für BündelfunkOnline service availableContact person available
- Have foreign radio operator's certificates recognizedOnline service availableContact person available
- Have the flight radio examination recognized as a flight radio certificateOnline service availableContact person available
- Have the reported amateur radio station entered in the EMF databaseOnline service availableContact person available
- Report radio interferenceOnline service availableContact person available
- Show fixed amateur radio stationOnline service availableContact person available