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Request death certificate of a relative
Service Description
The death certificate is a document that certifies the death of a person. You can apply for a death certificate as soon as the death has been recorded in the death register.
The death certificate is important for example for:
- the settlement of the estate
- claiming statutory or private insurance benefits.
Process flow
You can usually apply for the death certificate at the relevant registry office in person, in writing or electronically.
Who should I contact?
Please contact the registry office in whose jurisdiction the death occurred. Please enter the place of death under Place.
Requirements
An application for issuance of the death certificate may be made by:
- the last spouse
- the last civil partner within the meaning of the Registered Civil Partnership Act
- ancestors and descendants of the deceased person
- siblings with legitimate interest
- other persons, provided they can credibly demonstrate a legal interest (e.g. by a letter from the probate court)
What are the fees?
A death certificate for private purposes costs € 10.00.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
none
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
Technically approved by
TMIK
Professionally released on
15.10.2021
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)
Start your request directly online:
Competent Authority
Stadtverwaltung Gotha - Abt. Standesamt
Address
Hauptmarkt 1
99867 Ülleben
99867 Ülleben
Parking spaces
Parking Place
Bürgeraue
Fees: no
Bürgeraue
Fees: no
Parking Place
Hospitalgasse
Number: 72
Fees: no
Hospitalgasse
Number: 72
Fees: no
Building access
Employees
Frau Köllner
Responsible for
- Gotha:
- Applying for subsequent certification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Burial
- Certify acknowledgement of paternity
- Change surname of a child by naming
- Change surname of a child by single custodial parent
- Change surname of spouses
- Change surname of the child by declaration of affiliation
- Change surnames of expellees, late repatriates, their spouses or descendants
- Change surnames of registered civil partners
- Civil partnership certificate issuance
- Death - show
- Death abroad Notarization
- Death abroad Notarization of Germans without domestic residence
- Death abroad Notarization of deaths on sea-going vessels
- Family book
- First names change order
- Have birth abroad retroactively certified
- Have foreign divorce decrees recognized
- Issue certificate of marriageability
- Maternity recognition
- Name declaration of spouses without domestic marriage or marriage registration
- Printout from the birth register
- Public law change of the family name
- Redetermine surname of the child
- Register marriage
- Request birth certificate
- Request death certificate of a relative
- Request marriage certificate
- Request multilingual birth certificate
- Resume family name after dissolution of marriage or civil partnership
- Show birth
- Show home birth
- Nesseaue:
- Burial
- Certify acknowledgement of paternity
- Change surname of a child by naming
- Change surname of a child by single custodial parent
- Change surname of spouses
- Change surname of the child by declaration of affiliation
- Change surnames of expellees, late repatriates, their spouses or descendants
- Change surnames of registered civil partners
- Civil partnership certificate issuance
- Death - show
- Death abroad Notarization
- Death abroad Notarization of Germans without domestic residence
- Death abroad Notarization of deaths on sea-going vessels
- Family book
- First names change order
- Have birth abroad retroactively certified
- Have foreign divorce decrees recognized
- Issue certificate of marriageability
- Maternity recognition
- Name declaration of spouses without domestic marriage or marriage registration
- Printout from the birth register
- Public law change of the family name
- Redetermine surname of the child
- Register marriage
- Request birth certificate
- Request death certificate of a relative
- Request marriage certificate
- Request multilingual birth certificate
- Resume family name after dissolution of marriage or civil partnership
- Show birth
- Show home birth
- Nessetal:
- Burial
- Certify acknowledgement of paternity
- Change surname of a child by naming
- Change surname of a child by single custodial parent
- Change surname of spouses
- Change surname of the child by declaration of affiliation
- Change surnames of expellees, late repatriates, their spouses or descendants
- Change surnames of registered civil partners
- Civil partnership certificate issuance
- Death - show
- Death abroad Notarization
- Death abroad Notarization of Germans without domestic residence
- Death abroad Notarization of deaths on sea-going vessels
- Family book
- First names change order
- Have birth abroad retroactively certified
- Have foreign divorce decrees recognized
- Issue certificate of marriageability
- Maternity recognition
- Name declaration of spouses without domestic marriage or marriage registration
- Printout from the birth register
- Public law change of the family name
- Redetermine surname of the child
- Register marriage
- Request birth certificate
- Request death certificate of a relative
- Request marriage certificate
- Request multilingual birth certificate
- Resume family name after dissolution of marriage or civil partnership
- Show birth
- Show home birth
