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First names change order
Service Description
You can have the order of several first names changed without giving reasons.
For hyphenated first names, such as Hans-Peter, the order determined by the parents must be retained.
Process flow
You submit the declaration to change the order of your first names personally at the registry office. The declaration can be certified by any German registry office. The validity of the submitted declaration is checked by the registry office that keeps the birth entry. From there you will also receive a certificate of the new name or an amended birth certificate.
Note: As soon as the change has become effective, you must have various documents (for example, identity card or passport) changed. You must apply for these changes yourself.
Who should I contact?
Please contact the registry office.
Competent authority
The declaration to change the order of first names can be submitted to any German registry office. The validity of the declaration is checked by the registry office that keeps the birth entry. From there you will also receive a certificate of the new name or an amended birth certificate.
Requirements
- You are subject to German name law and have several first names.
- For a person with limited legal capacity, the legal representative makes the application (father, mother, guardian, custodian).
Which documents are required?
- Valid identity document (identity card or passport)
- Birth certificate
What are the fees?
A fee of €25.00 is charged in Thuringia for the declaration to change the order of first names. A new birth certificate costs € 10.00.
Legal basis
Appeal
Forms: none
Online procedure possible: no
Written form required: yes
Personal appearance required: yes
What else should I know?
If the change is successful, there will be subsequent costs, as you will have to reapply for documents such as your ID card or passport.
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
Technically approved by
Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs
Professionally released on
30.08.2022
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)
Competent Authority
Stadtverwaltung Gotha - Abt. Standesamt
Address
99867 Ülleben
Parking spaces
Bürgeraue
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Hospitalgasse
Number: 72
Fees: no
Building access
Employees
Frau Köllner
- 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
