If you wish to cease operating your business, you are obliged to deregister your business.

The same applies if you relocate the head office of your business or a branch office or dependent branch of your company to a new location and this results in the jurisdiction of a different municipality. First deregister your trade or business at the previous location. Then register it again at the new location.

If you change the legal form of your business, a business deregistration is also required. You must first deregister your business under the previous legal form. You then re-register your business under the new legal form.
If you relocate the headquarters of your business or a branch office or dependent branch of your company to a new location without changing the jurisdiction within the municipality, a business re-registration is sufficient.

The deregistration must be carried out by the following persons or their authorized representatives:

• in the case of sole traders, by the trader themselves,
• by the legal representatives in the case of corporations (e.g. GmbH, AG).

In the case of partnerships (e.g. OHG, KG, GbR/BGB-Gesellschaft, GmbH & Co. KG), business registrations must be submitted by all partners authorized to manage the business.

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