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Welcome to Bundesnotarkammer

The Bundesnotarkammer represents the German notaries in the national and international sphere, participates in legislative procedures at federal level as well as during the process of developing notarial professional law and provides for initial and further training of notaries.

Notaries provide competent, independent and impartial legal advice throughout Germany. They contribute significantly to the functioning of the community through preventive administration of justice, while charging much less than you might expect. Further information can be found on the information portal (informations only available in German).

From 2022 onwards, notaries will always store their acts both electronically and physically. For this purpose, the Bundesnotarkammer will set up the Electronic Archive of Authentic Acts. This technical infrastructure will enable notaries to store their acts securely for 100 years.

urkundenarchiv.bnotk.de

The Certification Authority of the Bundesnotarkammer is a qualified trust service provider. It issues signature cards for electronic legal transactions – the digital equivalent of the seal and the signature.

zertifizierungsstelle.bnotk.de

The Central Register of Lasting Powers of Attorney is the registration authority for enduring powers of attorney, care directives and living wills from all over Germany. It was founded in 2003 on the initiative of the Bundesnotarkammer and in 2005 was given the legal mandate to register lasting powers of attorney of citizens upon their request.

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The Central Register of Wills is the registration authority for wills, inheritance contracts and other documents relating to succession, taken into official safe custody for the entire German Federal State. It plays a key role in the German notification system in succession matters.

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NotarNet GmbH is a subsidiary of the Bundesnotarkammer. It offers software products with a focus on secure communication in the notarial environment such as XNotar, a software for the processing of electronic legal transactions, and the notary network, which offers a safe communication infrastructure for notaries.

notarnet.de

The Bundesnotarkammer provides information on electronic legal transactions within the notariat at www.elrv.de. On this website, you can find, for example, answers to typical practical questions on electronic legal transactions and an overview of the progress of electronic legal transactions in the individual Federal States (Länder).

elrv.info

The German Notarial Institute in Würzburg (Deutsches Notarinstitut; DNotI) is a scientific institution founded by the Bundesnotarkammer in 1993 for advising German notaries in their daily practice. The DNotI’s task is to prepare legal opinions and other up-to-date information for the notarial practice.

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The Examination Office for the Professional Examination for Notaries at the Bundesnotarkammer has the task of conducting professional examinations for notaries. Its successful completion is a prerequisite for attorneys-at-law who would like to be appointed notaries.

pruefungsamt-bnotk.de

Since 1 August 2022, formations of GmbHs and applications for registration in the commercial register as well as the register of cooperatives and partnerships are available digitally. The notarial online procedure is simple and secure.

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News

Conference on "Digitisation and Company Law" on September 21, 2023 in Brussels

25.09.2023

On September 21, the Council of Notariats of the European Union (CNUE) hosted a conference on "Digitization and Company Law" in Brussels. Against the(…)

CNUE meets for its General Assembly and celebrates the ENN anniversary

13.03.2023

The 22 member notariats of the Council of Notariats of the European Union (CNUE) met in Brussels on 10 March 2023 for their first General Assembly(…)

Federal Minister of Justice Dr. Marco Buschmann highlights the important role of the notariats of the European Union in his ceremonial address on the occasion of the handover of the CNUE Presidency

31.01.2023

In his ceremonial address on the occasion of the official handover of the CNUE Presidency to the German notary Dr. Peter Stelmaszczyk on 20 January(…)

Online formation of a GmbH for the first time in Germany

01.08.2022

The first online formation of a GmbH took place in Germany today, on 1 August 2022. This online formation was authenticated in a video conference via(…)

Company law and digitalisation in the context of European Integration

18.07.2022

On 8 June 2022, the German Federal Chamber of Notaries and Prof. Dr. Jan Lieder hosted a conference on “Company law and digitalisation in the context(…)

Notaries from all over the World are Guests in Munich

16.06.2022

The German Federal Chamber of Notaries hosted the Institutional Meetings of the International Union of Notaries (UINL) in Munich from 25 to 28 May(…)

Official ceremony | 60th anniversary of the Bundesnotarkammer

02.02.2022

In 2021, the Federal Chamber of Notaries celebrated its 60th anniversary. The planned ceremony for this occasion had to be postponed last year due to(…)

The Bundesnotarkammer

The German Federal Chamber of Notaries (Bundesnotarkammer) is a corporation under public law. It is composed of all 21 chambers of notaries that exist on a state-wide basis.

Notaries who have been appointed in the districts of the higher regional courts in Germany are affiliated with the chambers of notaries. A total of almost 8,000 professionals are currently in office. For historical reasons, they exercise their activity in two forms, either as a single-profession notary (Nurnotar) or as an attorney-notary (Anwaltsnotar).

The Bundesnotarkammer considers itself to be a self-governing public body with sovereign rights and obligations, but also as a professional representation for all notaries at national level.

The Bundesnotarkammer is based in Berlin and also has an office in Brussels.

The Bundesnotarkammer also includes the Central Register of Lasting Powers of Attorney, the Central Register of Wills, the Certification Authority of the Bundesnotarkammer and NotarNet GmbH based in Cologne, as well as the German Notarial Institute based in Würzburg.