Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald
32.3.1 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.

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.

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

• Two persons who wish to enter into marriage with each other are married within the framework of the civil marriage/marriage by a civil registrar.
• The marriage ceremony takes place at a place dedicated (prescribed) for this purpose by the competent authority.

• Two persons who wish to enter into marriage with each other are married within the framework of the civil marriage/marriage by a civil registrar.
• The marriage ceremony takes place at a place dedicated (prescribed) for this purpose by the competent authority.

• Two persons who wish to enter into marriage with each other are married within the framework of the civil marriage/marriage by a civil registrar.
• The marriage ceremony takes place at a place dedicated (prescribed) for this purpose by the competent authority.

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.

• Two persons who wish to enter into marriage with each other are married within the framework of the civil marriage/marriage by a civil registrar.
• The marriage ceremony takes place at a place dedicated (prescribed) for this purpose by the competent authority.

• Two people who wish to marry each other are married by a civil registrar as part of a civil marriage ceremony.
• The marriage ceremony takes place at a place designated (prescribed) for this purpose by the competent authority.

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.

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.

• Persons who are married to each other can, under certain circumstances, also arrange their name after the marriage abroad, by declaration before a German registry office.
• The registry office will issue a certificate to this effect.

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