Registration information

  • Service description

    Simple information from the population register

    The Citizens' Office may provide information about

    • First name and surname
    • academic degree
    • Current address
    • if the person is deceased, this fact

    of certain individual residents of the pilgrimage town of Kevelaer to anyone. Unless a transmission or information block exists.

    Extended registration register information

    If a person makes an additional request and demonstrates a legal or legitimate interest, the following data of an individual, specific resident may also be disclosed in addition to the simple information from the population register:

    • Former first names and surnames
    • Date and place of birth
    • Legal representatives
    • Nationalities
    • Former addresses
    • Day of moving in and out
    • Marital status, limited to whether married or in a civil partnership or not,
    • Date and place of death

    Proof of a legal or legitimate interest in extended information from the register of residents includes, for example, a payment order, a writ of execution for a default summons, other documents relating to legal relationships such as contracts, court judgments, appointment as guardian of the estate.

    For information on the population register in special cases (e.g. archive information), please contact the staff at the Citizens' Office.

    Information can be requested in person or in writing.

  • Legal basis

    Federal Registration Act

  • Required documents

    The following information is required in order to provide the requested information:

    • First name and surname of the person you are looking for
    • Previous address and/or date of birth
    • Declaration on the purpose of the information
  • Costs

    • Simple information from the population register: € 11.00
    • Extended registration register information: € 15.00
    • Provision of information associated with greater administrative effort
      (e.g. archive information): € 15.00 to € 50.00
    • Provision of information combined with local investigations: € 40.00 to € 100.00

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