Would you like to reserve a specific grave before your death? For this purpose, you can acquire a right of use.

If your wife, husband, registered partner or parent has died, you can receive financial support from the statutory accident insurance.

If you cannot be issued a death certificate after reporting a death due to missing data, you can have the death report certified.

If you are raising a child alone because your divorced partner has died, you can receive a child-raising pension.

If one of your family members has died, you can apply for a death certificate at the relevant registry office.

If you need to present a German death certificate in another European country, you can apply for the issuance of a multilingual form at the registry office.

As a survivor or surviving dependant, you can receive a widow's or widower's pension from the Agricultural Old Age Insurance Fund (LAK).

After the death of one of your parents, you will receive an orphan's pension from the Agricultural Pension Fund under certain conditions. Grandchildren and siblings of the deceased can also receive orphans' pensions.

If you are obliged to cover the funeral costs of a deceased person even though you do not have the financial means to do so yourself, you can apply to the social welfare provider to have the costs covered.

If your spouse or registered partner dies, in many cases you can receive a widow's or widower's pension.

If a German or a German without a permanent residence in Germany dies abroad, you can have the death subsequently notarized at the responsible German registry office.  

You can apply for the subsequent certification of a death on a foreign seagoing vessel in a German death register at the responsible German registry office.

Children for whom one or both parents have died can apply for an orphan's pension.

As a surviving dependant, you will receive a settlement from the statutory accident insurance instead of a pension if you remarry or enter into a new civil partnership.

Find out here about the possibility of burial in the forest.

If a funeral is not organized by relatives or representatives of the deceased person, an official burial will take place.

Find out here about the possibility of cremation.

Many things need to be considered when carrying out a funeral in a coffin. You can find an overview here.

If a person dies, a death certificate must be issued. You can find out who gets them and what they are important for here.

You can apply for the issuance of a German death certificate for a death occurring abroad at the responsible German registry office.

If your father or mother has died, you will receive an orphan's pension from the Agricultural Accident Insurance under certain conditions.

After the death of your former partner or spouse, you can receive a pension from the statutory accident insurance.

As a survivor or surviving dependant, you can receive benefits from the agricultural accident insurance. This is possible if your relative or dependant has not died as a result of an insured event.

If a member of your family has died as a result of an accident at work or on the way to work, or as a result of a recognized occupational disease, you can receive death benefits from the statutory accident insurance.

If your daughter or son dies as a result of an accident at work, a commuting accident or an occupational disease, you may receive a parental pension under certain conditions.

If your daughter or son dies as a result of an accident at work, a commuting accident or an occupational disease, you may receive a parental pension under certain conditions.

As a widow, widower or surviving partner in a civil partnership, you can receive a pension from the Agricultural Employers' Liability Insurance Association under certain conditions.

After the death of your former life partner or spouse as a result of an insured event, you may receive a pension from the statutory accident insurance.

If your parent has died as a result of an insurance accident, you will receive an orphan's pension from the statutory accident insurance under certain conditions.

You have paid for the funeral of a person who died in an accident at work, a commuting accident or as a result of an occupational disease? If so, the agricultural accident insurance will reimburse you for the costs under certain conditions.

Have you paid for the repatriation of a person who died as a result of an accident at work, a commuting accident or an occupational disease? Then you can get the costs back under certain conditions.

Have you paid for the repatriation of a person insured under the statutory accident insurance scheme? Then you can recover the costs if the person died as a result of an insured event.

If you need a multilingual extract from the civil register, you can apply for it at the competent registry office. The extracts are issued, for example, from birth, marriage and streep registers.
 

You want to transfer your right of use for a grave site to another person? Find out more here.

If persons insured by law have died in connection with the insured activity, the surviving widows or widowers will receive a widow's or widower's pension as long as they have not remarried.

You are obliged to report the death of a person to the registry office no later than three working days after the death has occurred.