The information recorded in civil registration records varies slightly over time. Landgericht Hannover (Niedersachsen) Amtsgericht Ribnitz-Damgarten (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Stralsund / Rostock ) Amtsgericht Monschau (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Aachen / Kln) Amtsgericht Gummersbach (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Kln / Kln) Amtsgericht Eckernfrde (Schleswig-Holstein / Kiel) Landgericht Potsdam (Brandenburg) Arbeitsgericht Bochum (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Hamm) U.S. lawyers do naturally assume that court files are public records and can be easily accessed and inspected by the public. Amtsgericht Einbeck (Niedersachsen) Arbeitsgericht Neubrandenburg (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) Sozialgericht Saarbrucken (Saarland) Landgericht Oldenburg (Niedersachsen) Amtsgericht Schwerte (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Hagen / Hamm) The most important civil records are birth, marriage, and death registers. Some couples were given a marriage certificate or a book [Stammbuch] with the marriage entry and space for entering children's births. Amtsgericht Ehingen (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Ulm) Amtsgericht Lnen (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Dortmund / Hamm) Landgericht Zwickau (Sachsen). Amtsgericht Wennigsen (Niedersachsen) Amtsgericht Sigmaringen (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Hechingen) Arbeitsgericht Herford (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Hamm) Sozialgericht Stralsund (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) See Germany Archives and Libraries. Amtsgericht Trier (Rheinland-Pfalz) Landgericht Grlitz (Sachsen) Amtsgericht Bdingen (Hessen) Arbeitsgericht Halle (Sachsen-Anhalt) Arbeitsgericht Augsburg (Bayern / Munchen) In most cases, the birth record was retrieved from the pastor and testimonies of guardians or others witnesses vouching for the self-reliance of the candidate. Arbeitsgericht Zwickau (Sachsen), Bundespatentgericht (Federal Patent Court) Amtsgericht Friedberg (Hessen) LAG Berlin-Brandenburg Amtsgericht Fulda (Hessen) Extracts of German records requested from towns now in Poland will be written in Polish. Arbeitsgericht Mainz (Rheinland-Pfalz) Amtsgericht Zossen (Brandenburg / Potsdam) were concerns re. Landgericht Gieen (Hessen) Herrington. Arbeitsgericht Wrzburg Kammer Schweinfurt (Bayern / Nurnberg) The researcher needs to systematically check each applicable jurisdiction and all subject headings for potentially helpful records. Amtsgericht Frankenberg-Eder (Hessen) Landgericht Arnsberg (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Hamm) Verwaltungsgericht Kassel (Hessen) Divorces are also recorded in court records, but they are rare before the 1900s. Amtsgericht Regensburg (Bayern) Amtsgericht Warendorf (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Mnster / Hamm) Amtsgericht Lahr (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Offenburg) Amtsgericht Backnang (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Stuttgart) Landgericht Saarbrcken (Saarland) Judicial Decisions in German The Federal Constitutional Court and the Federal Court of Justice (High Court) Decisions issued by the Constitutional Court and the Court of Justice are the easiest to locate. Entscheidungen des OLG Jena Landgericht Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Rostock) Amtsgericht Ottweiler (Saarland) Amtsgericht Achern (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden) Amtsgericht Leonberg (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Stuttgart) Amtsgericht Stade (Niedersachsen) Often there is a clause what should happen in case of death of either spouse. Finanzgericht Rheinland-Pfalz Amtsgericht Oldenburg (Niedersachsen) Arbeitsgericht Passau (Bayern / Munchen) Sozialgericht Mannheim (Baden-Wurttemberg) Arbeitsgericht Oberhausen (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Dsseldorf) (Bayern) Finanzgericht Thringen Amtsgericht Rostock (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Rostock / Rostock ) Amtsgericht Syke (Niedersachsen) Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. CET, Gesetz ber das Zentralregister und das Erziehungsregister - Bundeszentralregistergesetz , Convictions entered in the Central Criminal Register, Overview of The Federal Office of Justice, Applying for a certificate of conduct (for use abroad), Notes on the return of abducted children and on cross-border conflicts concerning rights of access and rights of custody. Oberlandesgericht Stuttgart (Baden-Wurttemberg) Use this Lands of the Federal Republic of Germany service to search for Insolvency Court records by name, company, seat or domicile of the debtor, or file reference. Amtsgericht Freiburg (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Freiburg) Arbeitsgericht Krefeld (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Dsseldorf) Amtsgericht Ibbenbren (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Mnster / Hamm) Sozialgericht Dsseldorf (Nordrhein-Westfalen) Some German cities began keeping records containing birth, marriage, and death information for certain segments of the population in the 1400s, but only a small fraction of Germans are represented in court records. Amtsgericht Menden (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Arnsberg / Hamm) When you see TV coverage relating to a German trial (be it a civil trial or a criminal court), the footage you may see on TV is made before the judge opens the proceedings. Civil officials will usually answer correspondence that is written to them in German. Sozialgericht Fulda (Hessen) It is responsible for the entire city of Berlin. Landesverfassungsgericht Sachsen-Anhalt Amtsgericht Schweinfurt (Bayern) After 1792 a civil marriage ceremony was required in areas of Germany under French control. Landgericht Wuppertal (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Dsseldorf ) Amtsgericht Dorsten (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Essen / Hamm) Landgericht Kassel (Hessen) Accordingly, it also conducts investigations itself, in particular, by calling . Justice of Germany. The German ordinary courts usually rule in criminal and civil matters such as marriage and family disputes. Amtsgericht Tempelhof-Kreuzberg (Berlin) (Verfassungsgerichte). Amtsgericht Sondershausen (Thringen / Mhlhausen) Amtsgericht Burgdorf (Niedersachsen) Amtsgericht Frth (Hessen) They are an excellent source for information on names and dates and places of births, marriages, and deaths. Entscheidungen des Verfassungsgerichthof Rheinland-Pfalz Case files and court records can be found on PACER.gov. Amtsgericht Geilenkirchen (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Aachen / Kln) The goal was to eliminate harmful commonly held user and property rights of agricultural land. Arbeitsgericht Saarbrucken (Saarland) Amtsgericht Worms (Rheinland-Pfalz) Amtsgericht Langen (Hessen) Amtsgericht Verden (Niedersachsen) Amtsgericht Bocholt (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Mnster / Hamm) Amtsgericht Bernburg (Sachsen-Anhalt / Magdeburg) You may also find archive inventories that describe the record-keeping systems and available civil registration records in Germany (see Germany Archives and Libraries). Amtsgericht Hoyerswerda (Sachsen / Bautzen) Landgericht Gttingen (Niedersachsen) The certificate of conduct, sometimes referred to as a "police check" or "criminal records check", is an official document printed on special green paper which confirms whether or not an individual has been previously been convicted of a criminal offence. Amtsgericht Neustrelitz (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Neubrandenburg / Rostock ) Amtsgericht Dessau-Rolau (Sachsen-Anhalt / Dessau-Rolau) Amtsgericht Passau (Bayern) Amtsgericht Bad Bergzabern (Rheinland-Pfalz) Amtsgericht Knigswinter (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Bonn / Kln) Amtsgericht Marsberg (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Arnsberg / Hamm) Amtsgericht Oranienburg (Brandenburg / Neuruppin) Frankfurt a/Main und Berlin: Verlag fr Standesamtswesen, 2000. Amtsgericht Bad Arolsen (Hessen) Arbeitsgericht Kempten (Bayern / Munchen) Arbeitsgericht Freiburg Kammern Villingen-Schwenningen (Baden-Wurttemberg) Amtsgericht Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein / Kiel) Amtsgericht Delmenhorst (Niedersachsen) Amtsgericht Heidelberg (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Heidelberg) Arbeitsgericht Paderborn (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Hamm) For a comparison of the relative activity of the ordinary courts, in 1969 there were 468,273 criminal cases in Germany, and 388,619 or 83% of these were held in the Amtsgericht composed of a single judge. Amtsgericht Schwelm (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Hagen / Hamm) Amtsgericht Biberach (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Ravensburg) Amtsgericht Bad Urach (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Tbingen) (Schleswig-Holstein / Lubeck), Amtsgericht Olpe (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Siegen / Hamm), Amtsgericht Oranienburg (Brandenburg / Neuruppin), Amtsgericht Oschersleben (Sachsen-Anhalt / Magdeburg), Amtsgericht Osterholz-Scharmbeck (Niedersachsen), Amtsgericht Osterode am Harz (Niedersachsen), Amtsgericht Paderborn (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Paderborn / Hamm), Amtsgericht Parchim (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Schwerin / Rostock ), Amtsgericht Pasewalk (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Neubrandenburg / Rostock ), Amtsgericht Perleberg (Brandenburg / Neuruppin), Amtsgericht Pfaffenhofen a.d.Ilm (Bayern), Amtsgericht Pforzheim (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Karslruhe), Amtsgericht Philippsburg (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Karslruhe), Amtsgericht Pinneberg (Schleswig-Holstein / Itzehoe), Amtsgericht Plettenberg (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Hagen / Hamm), Amtsgericht Pln (Schlewig-Holstein / Kiel), Amtsgericht Potsdam (Brandenburg / Potsdam), Amtsgericht Prenzlau (Brandenburg / Neuruppin), Amtsgericht Quedlinburg (Sachsen-Anhalt / Magdeburg), Amtsgericht Radolfzell (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Konstanz), Amtsgericht Rahden (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Bielefeld / Hamm), Amtsgericht Rastatt (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden), Amtsgericht Rathenow (Brandenburg / Potsdam), Amtsgericht Ratingen (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Dsseldorf / Dsseldorf ), Amtsgericht Ratzeburg (Schleswig-Holstein / Lubeck), Amtsgericht Ravensburg (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Ravensburg), Amtsgericht Recklinghausen (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Bochum / Hamm), Amtsgericht Reinbek (Schleswig-Holstein / Lubeck), Amtsgericht Remscheid (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Wuppertal / Dsseldorf ), Amtsgericht Rendsburg (Schleswig-Holstein / Kiel), Amtsgericht Reutlingen (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Tbingen), Amtsgericht Rheda-Wiedenbrck (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Bielefeld / Hamm), Amtsgericht Rheinbach (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Bonn / Kln), Amtsgericht Rheinberg (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Kleve / Dsseldorf ), Amtsgericht Rheine (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Mnster / Hamm), Amtsgericht Ribnitz-Damgarten (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Stralsund / Rostock ), Amtsgericht Riedlingen (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Ravensburg), Amtsgericht Rockenhausen (Rheinland-Pfalz), Amtsgericht Rostock (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Rostock / Rostock ), Amtsgericht Rotenburg an der Fulda (Hessen), Amtsgericht Rottenburg am Neckar (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Tbingen), Amtsgericht Rottweil (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Rottweil), Amtsgericht Rudolstadt (Thringen / Gera), Amtsgericht Salzwedel (Sachsen-Anhalt / Stendal), Amtsgericht Sangerhausen (Sachsen-Anhalt / Halle), Amtsgericht Schleiden (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Aachen / Kln), Amtsgericht Schleswig (Schleswig-Holstein / Flensburg), Amtsgericht Schmallenberg (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Arnsberg / Hamm), Amtsgericht Schopfheim (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Waldshut-Tiengen), Amtsgericht Schorndorf (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Stuttgart), Amtsgericht Schwarzenbek (Schleswig-Holstein / Lubeck), Amtsgericht Schwedt an der Oder (Brandenburg / Frankfurt an der Oder), Amtsgericht Schwelm (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Hagen / Hamm), Amtsgericht Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Schwerin / Rostock ), Amtsgericht Schwerte (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Hagen / Hamm), Amtsgericht Schwetzingen (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Mannheim), Amtsgericht Schwbisch Hall (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Heilbronn), Amtsgericht Schnau (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Waldshut-Tiengen), Amtsgericht Schnebeck (Sachsen-Anhalt / Magdeburg), Amtsgericht Senftenberg (Brandeburg / Cottbus), Amtsgericht Siegburch (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Bonn / Kln), Amtsgericht Siegen (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Siegen / Hamm), Amtsgericht Sigmaringen (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Hechingen), Amtsgericht Singen (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Konstanz), Amtsgericht Sinsheim (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Heidelberg), Amtsgericht Soest (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Arnsberg / Hamm), Amtsgericht Solingen (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Wuppertal / Dsseldorf ), Amtsgericht Sondershausen (Thringen / Mhlhausen), Amtsgericht Sonneberg (Thringen / Meiningen), Amtsgericht Spaichingen (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Rottweil), Amtsgericht Staufen i. Verwaltungsgericht Magdeburg (Sachsen-Anhalt) Landgericht Halle (Sachsen-Anhalt) Landessozialgericht Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Amtsgericht Gieen (Hessen) Verwaltungsgericht Oldenburg (Niedersachsen) Amtsgericht Lichtenberg (Berlin) Oberlandesgericht Karlsruhe (Baden-Wurttemberg) Amtsgericht Langenburg (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Ellwangen) Amtsgericht Aalen (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Ellwangen) Amtsgericht Radolfzell (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Konstanz) Below is a collection of links to free online databases of judicial opinions ( Entscheidungen) that are available through Germany's court websites. Amtsgericht Mnchengladbach (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Mnchengladbach / Dsseldorf ) After determining who has jurisdiction over therecords for the time period you need, write a short request to the proper office. Amtsgericht Idar-Oberstein (Rheinland-Pfalz) LAG Baden-Wrttemberg Amtsgericht Bingen am Rhein (Rheinland-Pfalz) Landgericht Wiesbaden (Hessen) Amtsgericht Buxtehude (Niedersachsen) The civil marriage records may include more information than the comparable church records. Amtsgericht Neumarkt i.d.OPf. Amtsgericht Bad Kreuznach (Rheinland-Pfalz) Amtsgericht Meldorf (Schleswig-Holstein / Itzehoe) This is only a partial listing of the many German marriages recorded, with the bulk of the records coming from Baden, Bayern, Hessen, Pfalz (Bayern), Preuen, Rhineland, Westfalen . Landgericht Hildesheim (Niedersachsen) We will check for: Amtsgericht Mnster (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Mnster / Hamm) Amtsgericht Iserlohn (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Hagen / Hamm) Entries on convictions are not permanently stored in the Central Criminal Register. For cases originating in local courts, this court is the level of final appeal, Oberlandesgerichte Amtsgericht Rockenhausen (Rheinland-Pfalz) Amtsgericht Knzelsau (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Heilbronn) Landgericht Waldshut-Tiengen (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe) Search for Births and Baptisms recorded in Germany between 1558 and 1898. Amtsgericht Bad Doberan (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Rostock / Rostock ) Separation could be partial or across the board, depending whether parts of properties were to be eliminated or all property owners were to be relieved of existing conditions. Amtsgericht Wolgast (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Stralsund / Rostock ) Amtsgericht Bernkastel-Kues (Rheinland-Pfalz) sections34 and 46 of the Federal Central Criminal Register Act). Amtsgericht Schwetzingen (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Mannheim) Landgericht Frankenthal (Rheinland-Pfalz) Amtsgericht Husum (Schleswig-Holstein / Flensburg) Landgericht Wrzburg (Bayern) Amtsgericht Marbach am Neckar (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Heilbronn) Civil death records often exist for individuals for whom there were no birth or marriage records. This page has been viewed 159,257 times (0 via redirect). Amtsgericht Bottrop (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Essen / Hamm) Amtsgericht Dsseldorf (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Dsseldorf / Dsseldorf ) Sozialgericht Mnster (Nordrhein-Westfalen) Amtsgericht Waldkirch (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Freiburg) Amtsgericht Bad Iburg (Niederschasen) Sozialgericht Frankfurt am Main (Hessen) Legal NoticePrivacy Policy, The Position of the Federal Court of Justice in the German Court System, The Bar at the Federal Court of Justice, Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Courts of the European Union, Verkndung am 9. This judgment will then be sent to the applicant, but only in an anonymized version, i.e. These records are kept by the civil registrar [German . Amtsgericht Kamenz (Sachsen / Bautzen) Finanzgericht Kln (Nordrhein-Westfalen) LAG Freiburg (Baden-Wurttemberg) Arbeitsgericht Bautzen (Sachsen) Staatsgerichtshof des Landes Hessen Amtsgericht Dieburg (Hessen) The court has no jurisdiction on matters relating to the State Constitution (Landesverfassung), Amtsgericht Ulm (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Ulm) Under an order signed by the court's five justices in . Participating parties are both parents and the child in birth records, and both spouses in a marriage. Amtsgericht Dachau (Bayern) Amtsgericht Euskirchen (Nordrhein-Westfalen / Bonn / Kln) Amtsgericht Gttingen (Niedersachsen) Amtsgericht Osnabrck (Niedersachsen) Amtsgericht Koblenz (Rheinland-Pfalz) Verfassungsgerichtshof des Freistaates Sachsen Landgericht Gera (Thringen / Jena) Amtsgericht Aichach (Bayern) Verwaltungsgericht Dsseldorf (Nordrhein-Westfalen) Amtsgericht Leutkirch (Baden-Wurttemberg / Stuttgart / Ravensburg) JewishGen German Jewish databases, including a family name finder, burial registry, Holocaust records, survivor lists, town sources, and more. Amtsgericht Meien (Sachsen / Dresden) Amtsgericht Eutin (Schleswig-Holstein / Lubeck) Main task of the Court is to serve as the main body for the protection of the Constitution by reviewing Amtsgericht Mhlhausen (Thringen / Mhlhausen) Amtsgericht Adelsheim (Baden-Wurttemberg / Karlsruhe / Mosbach) Amtsgericht Stolzenau (Niedersachsen) When writing for records, first find the modern registrar for your town. When writing for records, first find the modern registrar for your town. Landesverfassungsgericht Schleswig-Holstein

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