If you are admitted to hospitals, nursing homes or other facilities that are used to care for people in need of care or disabled people or for home education, you do not have to register as long as you are registered for another residence 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 the actual, final departure from an apartment. As a rule, you are considered to have moved out if you expect to be away for 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 comply with your obligation to register in person (e.g. due to frailty) and no carer 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 has been appointed for you who can determine your whereabouts, the obligation to notify is incumbent on the guardian.

If an authority determines that it is necessary in individual cases to avert a serious and present danger, to prosecute criminal offenses 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 births abroad, also the country, nationalities, addresses and date of admission and date of discharge.