Besondere Meldepflicht in Krankenhäusern, Heimen und ähnlichen Einrichtungen Auskunft

You have to stay in hospital for longer than three months and have no home in Germany? Only then do you have to register the place of your stay with the registration authorities.

If you are admitted to hospitals, nursing homes or other facilities that serve to care for people in need of care or disabled people or to provide home education, you do not have to register as long as you are registered for another home in Germany. However, if you are admitted permanently, you must register within two weeks because you have moved out of your previous home or homes in Germany. Moving out means actually leaving a dwelling for good. As a rule, you are considered to have moved out if your expected absence is longer than one year. If you are not registered for an apartment in Germany, you must register as soon as your stay exceeds three months.

If you are unable to fulfill your obligation to register in person (for example, due to infirmity) and no caregiver or guardian has been appointed for you who can determine your residence, the managers of the facilities must notify the registration authority responsible for the location of the facility of your admission within two weeks. You will be informed of this.

If a guardian is appointed for you who can determine the residence, the duty of notification is incumbent on the guardian.

If, according to the determination of an authority, it is necessary in an individual case to avert a considerable and present danger, to prosecute criminal offences or to clarify the fate of missing persons and accident victims, hospitals, homes and similar institutions must provide the competent authority with information from their records. The information includes surnames, first names, date and place of birth and, in the case of birth abroad, also the state, nationalities, addresses as well as the date of admission and date of discharge.

in case of registration proof of identity

longer than three months in hospital, nursing home or similar and no home in Germany available

none

as long as you are registered for a home in Germany: none

otherwise: two weeks after the expiration of three months of residence in the facility

• Special obligation to register in hospitals, nursing homes and similar institutions Information
• Anyone who is admitted to hospitals, nursing homes or other facilities that serve to care for people in need of care or disabled people or to provide home education does not need to register as long as they are registered for another home in Germany.
• Those who are not registered for a home in Germany must register within two weeks as soon as their stay exceeds three months.
• required documents: proof of identity
• responsible: Registration office

Registration authority in whose jurisdiction the facility is located

Hospitals, nursing homes, similar institutions and the persons to be medically treated, cared for or staying in the educational institutions (not staff), registration authority in whose jurisdiction the institution lies