Birth; Display

The birth must be reported to the registry office within one week.

• Marriage certificate or notarised printout of the marriage register
• Valid passports or identity cards of both parents

• unmarried mothers: birth certificate or certified printout from the mother's birth register
• Mothers living in a registered civil partnership: Civil partnership certificate or notarised printout from the civil partnership register (also applies to dissolved and dissolved civil partnerships)
• divorced mothers: marriage certificate or certified printout of the marriage register of the divorced marriage with divorce note; if married abroad: marriage certificate with legally binding divorce judgement
• widowed mothers: marriage certificate or notarised printout of the marriage register of the last marriage with a note on the death of the husband or, alternatively, marriage and death certificate or notarised printout from the marriage and death register
• If applicable, proof of paternity acknowledgements and declarations of custody already submitted
• valid passport or identity card of the mother

To register the father, we recommend that you go to the registry office together.

• Birth certificate or certified printout from the birth register
• valid passport or identity card

• All documents must be originals, photocopies cannot be recognised!
• Foreign-language documents are required in international form or together with a translation (by a publicly appointed and sworn translator or interpreter!).
• The documents listed above are usually required. In certain cases, additional documents may be needed! Your local registry office will be happy to advise you. It
  is advisable, particularly when registering a birth verbally, to check with the registry office responsible for the birth registration to see whether the documents listed are sufficient.

• §§ Sections 18 to 20 of the Civil Status Act (PStG)

  Display of the birth

• § Section 33 Ordinance on the Implementation of the Civil Status Act (PStV)

  Proof of notification of birth

Once a birth has been reported, the registry office notarises it in the register of births. The following information about the child and its parents is entered:

• Date, time and place of birth,
• the first names and surname of the child,
• the sex of the child,
• the first names and surnames of the parents.

The mother of the child is the woman who gave birth to the child.

The father of the child is the mother's husband. If the child was born after the death of the husband, he is considered the father if the child was born within 300 days of the death. If the mother is divorced and the child was born after the divorce decree became final, the former husband is not considered the father of the child.

If the child's mother is not married at the time of the child's birth, the registry office can only register a man as the father when certifying the birth if he has recognised paternity. The same applies if the mother is living in a registered civil partnership at the time of the birth. For this purpose, it is possible to recognise paternity even before the birth is certified.

On request, the relevant registry office will issue birth certificates from the register of births, in which the essential data from the register of births about the child and its parents are transferred. Notarised printouts from the birth register (this is a verbatim reproduction of the contents of the birth register) can also be issued. For more information, see "Certificate of civil status; issue" under "Related topics".