Administrative services A-Z

Forms: no default

Online procedure: not planned

Written form requirement: no requirement

perspective: trust level low

Upon request, you will receive information about the data stored about you in the population register.

The information includes:

• the data stored about you in the population register,
• the recipients of regular data transfers, as well as
• the purposes and the legal basis
  • the storage and
  • the regular data transmissions.

Insofar as the data is transmitted by means of an automated retrieval procedure or an automated simple registration register information, you may, upon request, obtain information about

• the types of data transmitted
• as well as their recipients.

You must submit an informal application to the registration office.

informal application

free of charge

You can apply for self-disclosure from the civil register in person or in writing at the competent office.
Some municipalities offer the possibility of requesting simple information from the civil register online.

Data transmissions via an automated retrieval procedure or the data of the automated simple civil register information are deleted after at least 12 months, at the latest at the end of the calendar year following the storage.

Registration office of your place of residence

• § Section 10 of the Federal Registration Act (BMG)
• 10 General Administrative Regulation on the Implementation of the Federal Registration Act (BMGVwV)

In exceptional cases regulated by law, information about stored data may be refused.

Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI), Department VII2