Handelsregisterportal

The Handelsregisterportal, officially known as the 'Joint Register Portal of the Federal States' (www.handelsregister.de), is the central hub for nationwide online access to commercial, cooperative, and partnership registers. Through the convenient search interface, companies, sole proprietors, and corporations can be researched for free to retrieve basic data such as company name, location, legal form, or authorized representatives. For more in-depth company information—such as electronic commercial register excerpts, shareholder lists, or founding documents—the portal offers partially fee-based document retrieval directly from the databases of the competent local or registry courts. Entrepreneurs, lawyers, tax advisors, investors, and journalists particularly use the platform for quick, legally secure company research, due diligence checks, and credit assessments. Additionally, the Unternehmensregister is recommended, which aggregates publications from the Federal Gazette. However, the Handelsregisterportal does not offer an API.

The handelsregister.ai API provides up-to-date information on companies from the commercial register in a structured and machine-readable format, as well as interfaces for retrieving documents such as shareholder lists, current and chronological commercial register excerpts.