Apply for insolvency information

Do you need information about an insolvent company or an insolvent person? The courts publish notices of such insolvency proceedings on www.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de.

Do you need information on whether insolvency proceedings have been opened against a company or a person or would you like to find out about the status of ongoing proceedings? The courts publish notices of insolvency proceedings on the nationwide internet portal www.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de

The notices are accessible to everyone there for a limited period of time.

If you require further information, the insolvency court can provide you with information on request about

• Insolvency proceedings that have been opened and already terminated
• Insolvency proceedings whose opening was rejected due to lack of assets
• insolvency applications filed by debtors

However, the right to information is limited. For example, the court may only inform you of a creditor's insolvency application if this is of particular interest to legal transactions (e.g. due to the ordering of provisional protective measures).

Inspection of files

If you yourself are involved in insolvency proceedings as a creditor or debtor, the competent insolvency court will allow you to inspect the files on request.

To the insolvency court.

You can find the competent court in the local and court directory, which is maintained jointly by the federal government and the federal states.

For individual insolvency information: informal application.

Insolvency publications

You can obtain generally accessible information on insolvency proceedings via the nationwide internet portal www.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de. The federal and state justice portal (www.justiz.de) also contains a nationwide directory of the courts with local jurisdiction.

Request for further information

You can apply for further information on individual insolvency proceedings informally in writing or by fax to the competent insolvency court; in addition to your request, state your legal interest in the information in the letter.

Information from the debtor register

Debtors are entered in a central debtor register,

• who have not fulfilled their obligation to submit a list of assets,
• for whom, according to the contents of the list of assets, full satisfaction of the creditor is not to be expected,
• who do not prove to the bailiff that the creditor has been satisfied in full within one month of submitting the list of assets, or
• for whom an application to open insolvency proceedings has been rejected due to lack of assets.

The central debtor register can only be accessed via the Internet.

The information is free of charge for you as a party to the proceedings. If you are a third party not involved in the proceedings, fees of at least €15.00 will be charged, depending on state law. These fees also apply in the event of negative information. (Status: January 2019)