Din guide til digitaliseringen av det tyske handelsregisteret. Praktiske veiledninger, aktuelle utviklinger og ekspertkunnskap om effektiv bruk av selskapsdata.
Does an HRB registration belong to the expected company? Check its court, name and status, resolve discrepancies and use a tested API example for existing lists.
Use insolvency notices in a supplier review: match the legal entity, request the right API feature and interpret the results with a practical Python example.
Check individual and joint Prokura in the German commercial register, match signatories to the representation rule and record the result with a reusable checklist.
Migrate company lists using the official WZ crosswalk, a software example, an Excel review template and a tested WZ 2025 company-search filter.
Calculate ownership percentages from share amounts and ranges, aggregate repeated shareholders and reproduce the calculation in Excel with a fictional example.
Choose the right German register document and interpret company identity, directors, Prokura and historical entries with a fictional example and checklist.
Check a company's creditworthiness for free: how to read the commercial register, financial statements, insolvency notices, and the debtor register – plus an API quick check.
Choose native monitoring, direct Signals queries or profile snapshots to track company changes, with clear setup requirements and verified read-request costs.
Find the right financial statement and export available data with source context. Compare official lookup routes and a checked Python API workflow.
A bounded Python workflow for filtered company search, reliable identity matching, optional contact enrichment and Excel export, with checked API costs.
Retrieve people from the German Commercial Register with /api/v1/fetch-person — AI-enriched profiles, roles, shareholdings, disambiguation, and use cases from sales to M&A.
Step-by-step: AI agent for KYC and supplier screening using handelsregister.ai as a tool — setup, system prompt, agent loop, audit trail.
How to identify a company’s beneficial owner (UBO): definition under the German Money Laundering Act (GwG), the 25% threshold, ownership chains, and an API-driven KYC workflow.
How to find a German company's HRB or HRA number: 5 practical methods — from the company's Impressum to the official register portal and API lookups.
Director changes, office relocations, company renamings: how to file trade register changes in Germany — process, costs, timelines, and common mistakes.
The new articles_of_association document type lets you retrieve German company charters and shareholder agreements via API. Learn how to build an LLM pipeline that extracts structured data from registry PDFs – for due diligence, compliance, and LegalTech.
From data retrieval to deployment: learn step by step how to build a local machine learning model for financial health scoring from Bundesanzeiger annual reports — using Python, scikit-learn, and the handelsregister.ai API.
Buying or investing in a German company? Discover how to use Handelsregister data to perform a thorough due diligence — from verifying company identity and ownership structure to analyzing financials and risks. Step-by-step guide inside!
Not every business in Germany appears in the Handelsregister. Registration depends mainly on legal form and whether the business qualifies as a “merchant” under German commercial law. This article explains who is registered (HRA/HRB), who must register, who can register voluntarily, and how to consume register data reliably in software.
When a new shareholders’ list is due, what mandatory information it must include, and how to avoid issues with the filing and interim court orders.
