Geburtsnamen oder vorher geführten Namen wiederannehmen

You have divorced or ended your civil partnership and would like to change your name? If your birth name or name before marriage or civil partnership was not family name (married name or partnership name), you have the following options:

• You can reassume your birth name or the name you used until your married name was determined.
• You can prefix or append the following names to the married name:
  • Your maiden name or
  • the name used at the time of the declaration on the determination of the married name.
• You may discard a companion name prefixed or appended during the marriage.

• Passport or identity card,
• in addition, if presented at the registry office that keeps the marriage register:
  • legally binding divorce decree,
• additionally in case of a visit to another registry office:
  • certified printout from the marriage register and the legally binding divorce decree or
  • certified printout from the marriage register with registered divorce.

• Divorce or
• Cancellation of civil partnership

• for the certification or notarization of a declaration on the use of a name: EUR 35.00

You can submit the declaration of name change at any registry office. You must have it certified either by a notary public or by a registrar. The declaration becomes effective as soon as it is received by the registry office.

You will receive a certificate of the name change.

The marriage register and the birth register are updated.

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You have divorced or ended your civil partnership and would like to change your name? If your birth name or name before marriage or civil partnership was not family name (married name or partnership name), you can:

• Resume your maiden name or the name used until your married name was determined.
• Prefix or append the following names to the married name:
  • Your maiden name or
  • the name used at the time of the declaration on the determination of the married name.
• You may discard a companion name prefixed or appended during the marriage.

Your registry office is responsible.