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Residence / registration certificate

If you need a residence or registration certificate, you can apply for one at the relevant office.

Leistungsbeschreibung

Your city, municipality or administrative community will issue you with a residence/registration certificate on request if you are registered there with a main or secondary residence.
A registration certificate serves as proof of residence. This is a simple disclosure of personal data from the residents' register. It does not contain information on nationality or marital status.

Upon request, the registration authority where you are registered with a residence will issue you with a registration certificate.

The registration certificate always contains your surname, first name with the common first name, doctor's degree, date of birth and current addresses, categorized according to main and secondary residence.

On request, the registration certificate can include further data:

  • former names
  • religious name
  • stage name
  • Place of birth and, if born abroad, also the country
  • gender
  • Data on the legal representative
  • Current nationalities
  • Legal affiliation to a religious community under public law
  • Previous address(es) in the area of responsibility of the registration authority as well as the address of the last sole residence or main residence and the last secondary residences outside the area of responsibility of the registration authority, marked according to main and secondary residence, in the case of moving in from abroad also the state and the last address in Germany, in the case of moving out abroad also the move-in address abroad and the state
  • Move-in and move-out date, date of last move out of a home in Germany and date of last move in from abroad
  • Marital status, in the case of married persons or civil partners also the date and place of marriage or the establishment of the civil partnership and, in the case of marriage or the establishment of the civil partnership abroad, also the country
  • Data on the spouse or civil partner
  • Data on underage children
  • Data on the identity card, the recognized passport or passport replacement document, and/or the eID card
  • the fact that a date of death is not stored

Data on information and transmission blocks may not be included in a registration certificate.

To the residents' registration office of your municipality, town or administrative community.

Your city or municipality will issue you with a registration or residence certificate on request if you are registered there with a main or secondary residence. Please bring your proof of identity with you. On presentation of a suitable power of attorney and your identity card, you can also authorize another person to make the application. It may also be possible to apply online.

Identity document and, if applicable, power of attorney

8.00 EUR
for higher expenses 16.00 to 40.00 EUR

not specified

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Thuringian Ministry of the Interior, Municipal Affairs and Regional Development

28.05.2026

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Agency

Stadtverwaltung Gera - StadtService H35
Heinrichstraße 35
07545 Gera

Residents and documents

Registering/registering and deregistering an apartment

  • Application for a federal identity card
  • Passport application
  • Application for a child's passport
  • Official notarization
  • Application for certificate of good conduct/information from the central trade register
  • Registration certificates
  • Registration information (simple information from the current database)

Driving license

  • Creation - initial issue
  • Extension/renewal
  • Registration in accordance with the Professional Driver Qualification Act
  • Accompanied driving from 17
  • Exchange of driver's license/duty driver's license
  • Replacement driver's license after loss or theft
  • International driving license
  • Driver card

Vehicle registration/fine dust

  • Decommissioning
  • Change of address (relocation within Gera)
  • Issue of the fine dust sticker

Business/Taxes

  • Registration/change of address and deregistration of business
  • Payment of basic and dog tax
  • Registration/deregistration of dog tax
  • Replacement dog tax sticker

Social welfare

  • Issue and acceptance of various applications in the area of responsibility of the city of Gera
  • Issue of the social card
  • Notarization for GEZ exemption

Resident parking permit

  • First issue, change, extension of resident parking permit

General information

  • Acceptance and issue of lost property
  • Sale of rent index
  • Sale of various brochures
  • Sale of dog waste bags and AWV garbage bags
  • Sale of tokens FD Health
  • Application for green waste customer card
  • Issue of income tax forms
  • Issue and acceptance of EEG registration/deregistration forms
  • Application for disabled toilet key
  • Applications in accordance with the law for the protection of the population from animal dangers

Name change authority

  • Change of name under public law

Registry office

  • Information from the civil status registers
  • Issue of civil status certificates (birth certificate, marriage certificate, death certificate)
  • Issue of certificate of no impediment to marriage Marriage abroad
  • Marriage and civil partnership
  • Declaration of leaving the church
  • Recognition of paternity at the registry office
  • Change of name under civil law
  • Prefixing or adding a name to the married name
  • Re-adoption of a previously used surname
  • Change of name of a child (granting of name)
  • Changing the name of a child (renaming)
  • Changing the name of a child after receiving joint custody rights
  • Adaptation of foreign name forms to the German language

Specialist area of immigration law/citizenship

  • Asylum law matters
  • Issuing residence permits (residence permit, settlement permit)
  • Declaration of invitation and commitment
  • Issuance of citizenship cards
  • Naturalization

Residents and documents

  • Registration/change and deregistration of residence
  • Issue of registration certificate/residence certificate
  • Issuing a life certificate
  • Issue of household certificate
  • Issue of certificate of right to examine
  • Information from the population register
  • Official certification
  • Application for certificate of good conduct
  • Application for information from the central trade register
  • Application for documents
  • Transmission and information blocks
Telephone

0365 838-1900

Fax

0365 838-1901

Email

Stadtservice@gera.de

WWW

CityService H35

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 15:00

Tuesday 09:00 - 18:00

Wednesday 09:00 - 13:00

Thursday 09:00 - 18:00

Friday 09:00 - 15:00

Saturday 09:00 - 13:00

Book an appointment online

Public Transportation

StopHeinrichstraße

Busalle Buslinien

Tramwayalle Straßenbahnlinien

Parking Lot

Parking PlaceParkhaus in den Gera Arcaden

Fees: Yes

Elevator

No

Wheelchair Accessible

Yes