You do not have your birth certificate, but you need it, for example, for a marriage or for another official act? Then you can apply for a birth certificate to be issued.
If you need proof of birth from the former German territories or from the consular and colonial registers, you can apply for a birth certificate. You can get this at the...
On the basis of the notarization made in the register of births, you can apply to obtain a birth certificate for home birth.
If you need proof of your time of birth, you can apply for a corresponding certificate. These can be obtained from the registry office that certified the birth or from each...
If you need proof of birth to be presented to foreign bodies, you can apply for a multilingual birth certificate.
If a child is born during a voyage on a German seagoing vessel, the registry office I in Berlin certifies the birth in its birth register. The skipper takes a transcript and...
If you have a child, you can apply for child benefit.
If you look after your child after the birth, the parental allowance compensates for the lack of income.
You, your child or another close family member in ascending or descending lineage was born abroad? Then you can have the birth subsequently certified in the birth register at...
During the protection periods before and after childbirth as well as for the day of delivery, you can receive maternity benefit.
If you are a member of the statutory health...
If you wish to make a declaration recognising the motherhood of your child, insofar as your national law or the law of the state in which the child has his habitual residence...
If you would like to make a declaration recognising paternity as a child, as well as a declaration of consent from the mother, this can be publicly certified by registrars in...
You have applied for assistance for your child and no longer need it? Then you can end the conservatorship at the local youth welfare office.
If you, as parents, are not married to each other at the birth of your child, you can obtain joint custody by submitting both declarations of custody.
If you have applied for parental allowance, the amount of parental allowance will be calculated by the responsible parental allowance office.
The parental allowance is based on...
The hotline of the Maternity Benefit Office informs you about:
Conditions for eligibility for maternity benefit
necessary documents
Procedure for submitting an application
...
The parents' telephone is a nationwide telephone conversation, advice and information service that supports you quickly, competently and anonymously in the often difficult...
You do not have your birth certificate, but you need it, for example, for a marriage or for another official act? Then you can request a printout from the birth register.
If you receive social assistance or basic security and have just had a baby, the social welfare office will bear the costs of counselling sessions.
Have you had a child and would like to submit information and evidence of birth, first name declaration and name determination to the registry office? Find out more here.
