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Change in the death register

If the details of a deceased person on their death certificate are incorrect, you can request the necessary change in the death register.

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Course description

The data entered in a death certificate are those that appear in the death register on the date of issue. If such data is incorrect or incomplete, the register must be corrected. You will then receive a new death certificate with the correct data.

Examples of corrections:

  • Misspelling by the registry office
  • The spelling of the name in the passport differs from the death register
  • The wrong marital status was entered in the death register
  • The time of death is incorrect

Prerequisites

If the register contains an error or is incomplete, you can apply for a correction if you are closely related to the deceased person (parent, child, last spouse/partner). Other persons can apply for the correction if they have a legal interest.

Required documents

If the register contains an error or is incomplete, you can apply for a correction if you are closely related to the deceased person (parent, child, last spouse/partner). Please complete our contact form to obtain advice and submit your existing documents in advance. The required documents vary depending on the individual case. Please submit all documents you have relating to the change in question, with a translation into German if necessary.

Duration and costs

Processing time

If you submit your request using the contact form, the registry office will contact you, discuss your request and arrange an appointment with you.

Fees and charges

If the error in the birth register was deliberate or due to gross negligence, costs of between 10 and 220 euros may be incurred.

Available payment methods

Legal basis

  • § Section 32 of the Civil Status Act (subsequent certification in the register of births)
  • §§ Sections 47, 48 of the Civil Status Act (correction)

Links and downloads

Find the responsible authority

Please enter the place of death with street and house number

Related services

Coffin burial

The municipal cemeteries offer coffin or earth burial. We discuss dates and details personally with the client.

Death certificate

The registry office issues death certificates after a death. As a rule, the appointed funeral parlour takes care of registering the death.

Conclusion of a funeral contract

We offer the complete organisation of a funeral or repatriation. Our services correspond to those of private funeral parlours.

Anonymous burial

In the anonymous burial ground at the Waldfriedhof cemetery, urns are buried anonymously outside cemetery opening hours and without relatives.

Burial in the hedge gardens

The "Heckengärten" at the Perlacher Forst cemetery is the first maintenance-free communal burial ground where coffins and urns can be buried together.

Burial under trees

Urn burial plots under trees are offered in selected near-natural burial plots in the forest cemetery.

Burial ex officio

Deceased persons for whom no burial order is issued are buried ex officio.

Burial of foetuses and stillborn children

At the Waldfriedhof cemetery, parents of stillborn children and foetuses have the opportunity to have their children buried in a communal area.

Assumption of funeral costs

In Germany, relatives of deceased persons must make funeral arrangements. In some cases, the Office for Social Security covers the costs.

Urn burial

The urn burial, together with the coffin or burial in the ground, is the service offered by Munich Municipal Cemeteries in the funeral business.