Values and codes

The status is in status in the company profile. Signals give it in organization.current_profile.status.code in a coarser form.

Deleted companies stay available too, with their full history.

The legal form is in legal_form, usually as an abbreviation. It is a text, not a fixed code. These values occur in real responses:

The same legal form can be spelled differently. So compare tolerantly or map the values to your own list. For filters, search-organizations has its own fixed list in legal_form_code.

The register entry is in registration: the register court in court, the register type in register_type and the number in register_number.

court names the place of the register court as the register writes it, for example Ansbach, Charlottenburg (Berlin) or Frankfurt/Oder. A register number is only unique together with court and type, for example Ansbach HRB 6089.

In embedded data, for example for the parties to a merger, the court can also appear with its full name, for example Amtsgericht Nürnberg.

The kind of registered capital is in capital.current.kind and, for earlier amounts, in capital.history[].value.kind.

Partnerships, sole traders and associations have no registered capital. Then capital.current is null and capital.history is empty.

A person’s role is in related_persons.current[].label and related_persons.past[].label. role also gives you the role’s name in German and English.

Signals use almost the same values in parties.role_holder.role.code. Two have different names there: BOARD_MEMBER instead of BOARD and AUTHORIZED_SIGNATORY instead of PROCURA.

For shareholders, the role is in shareholders.entries[].role.label:

Every signal belongs to a topic. You find the code in event.topic, the name in event.topic_name. As a filter, pass it in topics exactly like this.

More on topics and filters under signals.

You pass these values in document_type to fetch-document. What the documents contain is under Documents.

The industries are in industry_classification: under WZ2008 according to the classification WZ 2008 and under WZ2025 according to WZ 2025. Each entry has a code like 62.20.1 and a German name in label.

Both classifications are published by the Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt). You find all codes with their names on the classification server of the statistical offices of the Federation and the federal states: WZ 2025 and WZ 2008. A company can have several industries.