Gewerbe ummelden

If you wish to relocate the registered office of your company within the jurisdiction of the municipality that was previously responsible, you must re-register your business. The same applies if you change the location of your registered office or the location of a branch or dependent branch office. The local trade or public order office is responsible for this.
The following are exempt from business re-registration

• Primary production (livestock farming, agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing)
• Liberal professions
• Management of own assets

If you change your business activity, you must also re-register your business. This is the case, for example, if in future you offer goods or services in your business exclusively or additionally that are not customary in relation to your registered trade.
You must also re-register your trade if your name as a trader or the name of the legal entity as a trader changes.
If you change your trade activity, you must not only re-register your standing trade, but also your itinerant trade.
The following persons or their authorized representatives must carry out the re-registration:

• in the case of sole traders, by the trader themselves,
• in the case of legal entities, for example limited liability companies (GmbH), public limited companies (AG), by the legal representatives
• In the case of partnerships, for example general partnerships (OHG), partnerships limited by shares (KG), partnerships under civil law (GbR), limited liability companies and limited partnerships (GmbH & Co. KG), all partners authorized to manage the business must register the business.

If you move your place of business to the jurisdiction of another municipality, you must first deregister the business at the previous location and then re-register it at the new location. This is not a re-registration.

• Completed business re-registration form
• Proof of identity (e.g. identity card, passport or registration certificate)
• Copy of the extract from the commercial register if your company is entered in the commercial register (also: register of cooperatives, register of associations, register of foundations)

• You relocate the registered office, a branch or a dependent branch within the jurisdiction of a municipality or
• You change or expand the goods and services offered so that the character of your business changes
• The name of the trader changes

You can re-register your business in person, online, by post or fax.

If the re-registration is done in person or in writing, you must complete and personally sign the form "Gewerbe-Ummeldung" - (GewA 2).
The "GewA 2" form is available at the office responsible for the re-registration or, depending on the offer, is also available for download.

The competent office certifies receipt of the business re-registration if the re-registration form has been completed in full.

The responsible office forwards the business re-registration to other offices, such as the tax office, the employers' liability insurance association, the Chamber of Crafts, the Chamber of Industry and Commerce and, if applicable, the registry court.

The procedure can be handled by a single point of contact. You have a legal right to electronic processing

• Business re-registration
• A business re-registration is required for
  • Relocation of the registered office or the registered office of a branch or dependent branch within the jurisdiction of a municipality
    
  • Change or expansion of the goods or services offered to include those that were not previously part of the registered trade (e.g. new range of goods that is not customary for the registered trade; change of sector, expansion from retail to wholesale)
    
  • Change of name of the trader
    
  • Other circumstances can be reported on a voluntary basis (e.g. change of business name, giving up a sideline)

• If the place of business is relocated to the jurisdiction of a municipality other than the previous one or to another federal state, the business must first be deregistered in the previous municipality. The business is then re-registered at the new location.
  Responsible: local trade or public order office

The competent authority is determined by the respective state law.