Landeshauptstadt Schwerin - Standesamt

You do not have your birth certificate, but you need it for a marriage or other official act, for example? Then you can apply for a birth certificate to be issued.

On the basis of the certification made in the birth register, you can apply for a birth certificate for a home birth.

Are you planning to get married abroad and need a certificate of no impediment to marriage? You can apply for one at your local registry office.

If you wish to marry abroad, there may be a legal standard in the country where you intend to marry that requires you to present such a certificate.

The registry office issues certificates and certified extracts from the registers.

If one of your family members has died, you can apply for a death certificate at the relevant registry office.

Do you need a marriage certificate? You can obtain your marriage certificate from the registry office in the district where the marriage took place or where your foreign marriage was registered.

If you need proof of birth to present to foreign authorities, you can apply for a multilingual birth certificate.

If you have had a child, you must submit details and proof of the birth, first name declaration and naming of your child to the registry office.

Were you, your child or another close family member in the ascending or descending line of descent born abroad? Then you can have the birth subsequently certified in the birth register at the registry office responsible for you.

Instead of a birth certificate, you can also request a printout from the birth registry.

If you do not have German citizenship and wish to marry in Germany, you will need a certificate of no impediment to marriage from your home country. If you are not issued with one, you can apply for an exemption from presenting a certificate of no impediment to marriage.

Do you need a civil partnership certificate? You can obtain one from the registry office in the district where the civil partnership was entered into or where your foreign civil partnership was registered.

You can apply for the subsequent certification of a death on a foreign seagoing vessel in a German death register at the competent German registry office.

By leaving the church, the obligation to pay church tax no longer applies. The procedure for this is largely automated.

If your gender identity differs from your officially registered gender entry, you can have your gender and first name details changed. To do this, you must submit a declaration to the registry office.

If you wish to make a declaration acknowledging paternity of a child and a declaration of consent by the mother, this can be publicly notarized at any registry office, youth welfare office or notary's office.

If you want to get married, you must declare your marriage in person at the registry office.

If you want to get married, you must register the marriage in advance.

Have you had a child outside of a hospital or other obstetric facility (home birth)? Then you must report the birth to the relevant registry office.

If your child was stillborn and it is a miscarriage, you can report the birth to the registry office in whose jurisdiction the miscarriage occurred. Upon request, the registry office will issue a certificate.

If your marriage or civil partnership is dissolved, you can change your surname.