Handwerksrolle Eintragung von Vertriebenen und Spätaussiedlern mit einer der Meisterprüfung gleichwertigen bestandenen Prüfung im Ausland

Are you a recognized displaced person, a late repatriate, do you have a foreign professional qualification and would you like to work independently in a craft subject to registration in Germany? Then you must first be registered in the register of skilled crafts.

With the recognized status as a displaced person or as a late repatriate and a professional qualification from abroad equivalent to the master craftsman's examination, you can exercise a craft subject to licensing as a standing trade in Germany. You must be registered in the register of skilled crafts before setting up in Germany.

The Handwerksrolle is a register kept by your local Chamber of Crafts.

Among other things, the Handicrafts Register lists

• natural persons,
• partnerships with legal capacity or
• legal entities and
• the name and qualification of the company management.

Registration in the Handicrafts Register is obligatory if you

• want to practice a craft that is subject to licensing,
• want to exercise the craft only in parts and
• want to perform essential activities of several crafts, then for each of these crafts.

In order to be entered in the register of skilled crafts, you or the company management must prove that you have successfully completed a master craftsman's examination for the craft to be practiced or an equivalent professional qualification.

The following are eligible as company management:

• owners of the craft enterprise or
• employed persons of the craft enterprise

You will find a complete list of the crafts requiring approval in Annex A to the Crafts Code (HwO).

The responsible Chambers of Crafts provide further information on this service. Please contact the responsible Chamber of Crafts for more information.

In case of sole proprietorship:

• Identity card or comparable identification document (copy)
• Notification of status as displaced person or ethnic German resettler (copy)
• Proof of an examination passed abroad
• Business registration (copy): Can be submitted after registration in the register of trades.

For civil law partnerships (GbR):

• Identity cards or a comparable identification document of the partners or persons authorized to represent the company (copy)
• Articles of association, if not informally concluded (copy)
• Notification of status as displaced person or late repatriate (copy)
• Proof of an examination passed abroad
• Business registration (copy): Can be submitted after registration in the register of trades.

In the case of legally capable commercial partnerships

• are meant:
  • General partnership (OHG),
  • limited partnership (KG) and
  • corresponding foreign company forms
• Identity card or a comparable identification document of the shareholder or the persons authorized to represent the company
  • for proof of the entrepreneurial legal form in the case of the company's registered office in Germany:
  • Extract from the register of the company entered in the commercial register. In the case of general partnerships, also the articles of association (copy) if no entry has been made in the register.
  • for foreign legal forms:
    • Extract from the register of the competent foreign register in the case of companies entered in registers, otherwise
    • Articles of association (copy)
• Notification of status as displaced person or late repatriate (copy)
• Proof of an examination passed abroad
• Business registration (copy): Can be submitted after registration in the register of trades and crafts

For legal entities

• Meant are:
  • Limited liability company (GmbH), entrepreneurial company (haftungsbeschränkt),
  • stock corporation (AG),
  • registered cooperative (eG)
• identity card or a comparable identification document of the persons authorized to represent the company
  • for proof of entrepreneurial legal form: if the company is domiciled in Germany: register extract from the commercial or cooperative register for foreign legal forms: Register extract of the competent foreign register
• Business registration (copy): Can be submitted after registration in the register of skilled crafts.
  • Information on company management

• If a company manager is employed, the following documents must also be submitted:
  • Company manager declaration
  • Proof of employment as a plant manager: employment contract (copy)
  • Proof of social insurance of the plant manager
  • Notification of status as displaced person or late repatriate (copy)
  • Proof of an examination passed abroad

• You must provide proof of a recognized status as a displaced person or as a late repatriate.
• Their professional qualification acquired abroad must be equivalent to the German master craftsman's examination for the craft requiring admission that they wish to practice or to a craft related to it.

The amount of the fees can be found in the fee schedule of the responsible Chamber of Crafts.

You can submit your application in writing or, in some cases, online to your local Chamber of Skilled Crafts.

Please inform yourself about the procedure at the responsible Chamber of Skilled Crafts. You can also have the required documents sent to you.

• The Chamber of Skilled Crafts uses the certificate to check whether the focus of the degree corresponds to the craft you want to practice.
• In cases of doubt, you can submit evidence of individual achievements (such as seminar papers or diploma theses) during training as well as framework curricula, training regulations for the examination.
• If you meet the requirements for registration, you will receive a written notification of registration.
• Together with the notification of registration, the company will receive the so-called craft card.

You must be registered in the register of craftsmen before starting the activity.

There are no clues or specifics.

• Legal action may be taken against a rejection of the application.
• Depending on the federal state in which the application was filed, a preliminary procedure may have to be carried out first.
• Information on the existing legal remedies can be found in the instructions on legal remedies in the notices.

Legal action may be taken against a rejection of the application. Depending on the federal state in which the application was filed, a preliminary procedure must first be carried out. Information on the existing legal remedies can be found in the information on legal remedies in the notices.

• Register of Craftsmen Registration of displaced persons and ethnic German immigrants who have passed an examination abroad equivalent to the master craftsman's examination
• Register of craftsmen as a register of all owners of a business of a craft subject to licensing in the standing trade
• Registration concerns:
  • natural and
  • legal entities and
  • partnerships with legal capacity
• Legal obligation to register:
  • All business owners with a craft subject to licensing in a standing trade must be registered in the register of skilled crafts.
  • does not apply to itinerant trades or market trades
• Register contents are among other things:
  • craft subject to licensing in the standing trade
  • Name and qualification of the management
• Company owners or management must provide evidence of having successfully passed the master craftsman's examination for the craft to be practiced or of equivalent professional qualifications.
• Persons with recognized status as displaced persons or late repatriates: the required proof of qualification for the craft can be provided by comparing the professional qualification acquired abroad with the domestic master craftsman's examination.
• Application can be made in writing or partially online at the locally competent Chamber of Skilled Crafts and Small Businesses
• Deadline: prior to commencement of the craft activity
• Fees: Amount depends on the schedule of fees of the competent Chamber of Skilled Crafts and Small Businesses
• Responsible: Chamber of Skilled Crafts in whose district the commercial establishment is intended to be located

Advice from your Chamber of Skilled Crafts - Contact details of the Chambers of Skilled Crafts
https://www.handwerkskammer.de

List of all crafts subject to registration
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/hwo/anlage_a.html