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Europe
Germany
Company data from the Germany business register, through the Topograph API.
Topograph reads Unternehmensregister (German Business Register), Handelsregister (VR - Vereinsregister), Transparenzregister (German UBO Register) and Bundesanzeiger (Federal Gazette) and returns the company profile, legal representatives, other key persons, shareholders, ultimate beneficial owners and subsidiaries of Germany companies through one API.
What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.
Requests run in prefill mode (fast) or verification mode (the authoritative register answer).
Datapoints
- Company profileYes
- Legal representativesYes
- Other key personsYes
Comes back in Verify.
- ShareholdersPartly
Comes back in Verify.
- Ultimate beneficial ownersPartly
- SubsidiariesYes
Comes back in Verify.
Documents
- Register extractYes
- Articles of associationYes
- FinancialsYes
- UBO extractYes
- Handelsregisterauszug
- Gesellschaftsvertrag / Satzung / Statut
- Jahresabschlussunterlagen
- Hinterlegte Jahresabschlussunterlagen
- Transparenzregisterauszug
A company profile typically comes back from the register in 4 s in prefill mode and 11 s in verification mode.
These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.
The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.
German central business register aggregating data from all local court registers (Handelsregister)
German trade register, used separately for VR (Vereinsregister) entries covering nonprofits and associations (e.V.)
German UBO register operated by Bundesanzeiger Verlag. Access requires per-customer obliged entity credentials.
German Federal Gazette operated by Bundesanzeiger Verlag, sister site of the Unternehmensregister. Holds the annual and consolidated financial statements (Jahres- and Konzernabschluss) published for financial years that began before 2022; later statements are filed with the Unternehmensregister.
- GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)Secondary
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data
Request a company by its Register Number as the id, with countryCode set to DE. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.
The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.
- Identifiers and formats6
- Search patterns4
- Quirks13
- Legal forms49
- Officer roles77
- Company statuses6
- Documents8
- Example responses11