Birth certificate - adults and children aged 3 months and over
You can order civil status certificates from the registry offices online. The certificates are sent by post, even abroad.
Description
Jurisdiction Jurisdiction does not depend on your current place of residence, but on the place of the event - i.e. the place of birth, marriage or death.
Multilingual certificate (so-called "international certificate"):
On request, you can also receive a multilingual certificate (birth certificate / death certificate / marriage certificate). This is offered for selection in the online form as a "multilingual extract from the register". The form contains the following languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Serbian and German
Please note that these documents are not recognised in every country, even if the national language is included in the form.
The online order is not a purchase contract. You are requesting an official act for which a fee is charged. The fee is always payable, even if the request is rejected or withdrawn, so it is not usually possible to cancel or withdraw the order.
Prerequisites
In order to process your enquiry, we require certain personal data from you. We restrict ourselves to necessary data only and comply with the applicable data protection laws and regulations. The data is transmitted to the responsible department in encrypted form. It will not be passed on to third parties or used outside the processing of your enquiry. By using our website, you agree to this.
We will of course treat your data confidentially and encrypt it using the SSL process before it is transmitted to our server.
Required documents
- Completely filled out online form
(telephone orders are not possible)
Questions & Answers
The civil status registers are kept at the place of the event (birth, marriage, civil partnership, death). All documents must therefore be requested from the registry office that notarised the civil status event, e.g. a birth certificate from the registry office of the place of birth.
If a civil partnership was established before a notary, you can obtain the civil partnership certificate from the registry office in whose district the notary is based.
If a family register was created on request for a marriage entered into abroad, you can obtain the corresponding certificate from the registry office where the family register was kept on 24 February 2007.
Registers of births, marriages and deaths that were created from 1 January 2009 or civil partnership registers that were created from 1 August 2009 for civil status cases abroad are kept at the registry office where they were created. The corresponding certificates are also issued there.
Certificates for civil status cases that were notarised at Registry Office I in Berlin will continue to be issued there.
Civil status registers are only kept at the registry office for a limited period of time:
- Births: 110 years
- Marriages and civil partnerships: 80 years
- Deaths: 30 years
- Church resignations: 30 years
The registry office can only issue civil status certificates (such as birth or marriage certificates) from these registers within this period. After this period has expired, the registers are subject to archive law.
The Munich registry office hands over civil status registers that no longer need to be continued to the city archives every year. Civil status certificates can no longer be issued from these registers, only copies, which can also be notarised on request. The Munich City Archive is responsible for this. Please contact:
stadtarchiv@muenchen.de, postal address: Stadtarchiv, Winzererstraße 68, 80797 Munich.