Application for the issuance of a German death certificate in the event of a death abroad

• They submit the application for the issuance of the death certificate to the competent registry office and attach the necessary documents.
• The registry office will check your details as well as the documents you have submitted and, if necessary, issue the death certificate.
• The registry office will send you the death certificate by post, unless personal collection has been arranged.
• The fees are paid either in advance or after shipment / upon collection from you.

You submit the application to the registry office that has subsequently certified the death that occurred abroad in the death register kept by it.

• the prior post-certification of the death that occurred abroad in a German death register.
• An application for a death certificate may be submitted:
  • Spouses and civil partners of the deceased person
  • Ancestors and descendants of the deceased person (e.g. child, grandchild)
  • Siblings of the deceased person, if you credibly demonstrate a legitimate interest, or
  • other persons, if they credibly demonstrate a legal interest
• Applicants must be over 16 years of age.

• As the applicant, you must prove your identity (identity card, passport or copy of identity document)
• if necessary, the submission of further documents is required.

The period of 30 years for the registry office to keep the death register must not have expired.

Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport

07.10.2020

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.