Notarizations and certificates

Registration certificates

You can apply for a certificate of your data entered in the population register. According to § 18 BMG, a simple registration certificate generally contains data on the following:

• Surname,
• former names,
• First names (with identification of the surname),
• doctoral degrees,
• religious and stage names,
• date of birth,
• place of birth,
• State of birth (only if born abroad),
• current addresses, categorized according to main and secondary residence.

Upon request, further data stored in the registration register (e.g. marital status, nationality or former addresses) can be included in the certificate, which is then an extended registration certificate. The additional data to be listed must be named by the applicant. The above-mentioned scope of data can also be reduced upon request. If the application does not contain any information on the scope of data, a simple registration certificate will be issued.

Authorization certificate

Young people who start an employment relationship (e.g. an apprenticeship) before the age of 18 and for whom the future employer requires a medical examination can obtain an examination authorization certificate (UB-Schein) from StadtService H35. This is regulated by the Youth Employment Protection Act (JArbSchG).

Notarizations

A certification confirms that copies, photocopies, duplicates, negatives, printouts of electronic documents or electronic documents correspond to the original.

Signatures and hand signs on documents are certified by authorities if the signed document is required for submission to an authority or other body to which the signed document must be submitted on the basis of a legal provision.

If a certification is required for use abroad, a simple certification is not sufficient. See here: Legalization of German documents for use abroad.

Tax ID

If you have not received your tax ID or cannot find it, you can request it again free of charge using the input form of the Federal Central Tax Office.