Registration certificate; application

A registration certificate about your place of residence and possibly other data is required for a variety of everyday matters.

Upon request, the registration authority where you are registered with a residence will issue you with a written or electronic registration certificate.

The registration certificate always contains your surname, first name with the common first name, doctor's degree, date of birth and current addresses, categorized according to main and secondary residence.

On request, the registration certificate can include further data:

• former names,
• religious name,
• stage name,
• place of birth and, if born abroad, the country,
• gender,
• Data on the legal representative,
• current nationalities,
• legal affiliation to a religious community under public law,
• previous address(es) in the area of responsibility of the registration authority as well as the address of the last sole residence or main residence and the last secondary residences outside the area of responsibility of the registration authority, identified according to main and secondary residence, in the case of moving in from abroad also the state and the last address in Germany, in the case of moving out abroad also the move-in address abroad and the state,
• Date of moving in and moving out, date of last move out of a home in Germany and date of last move in from abroad,
• Marital status, in the case of married persons or civil partners also the date and place of marriage or the establishment of the civil partnership and, in the case of marriage or the establishment of the civil partnership abroad, also the country,
• Data on the spouse or civil partner,
• Data on underage children,
• data on the identity card, the recognized passport or passport replacement document, and/or the eID card, and
• the fact that a date of death is not stored.

Data on information and transmission blocks may not be included in a registration certificate.

• Identity card or passport

• for a written registration certificate: EUR 5.00
• for an electronic registration certificate: none

In addition to the registration certificate, the official registration confirmation also serves as proof of residence. This is issued automatically when you register or deregister. It only contains data on the surname and first name, doctor's degree, date of birth, address, date of moving in or out and the date of registration or deregistration. The registration confirmation also states whether it is your sole, main or secondary residence. Unlike a registration certificate, you cannot apply for an official registration confirmation.