Business - register a trade requiring supervision
Gewerbe - ein überwachungsbedürftiges Gewerbe melden
Official English page German-only parts machine-translated, 2026-09-15
You can also use this service online
Book an appointment
Book an appointment (service.berlin.de)
Requirements
• Personal reliability
Reliability is checked on the basis of various forms of evidence. The applicant must provide information from the Federal Central Register (certificate of good conduct) and information from the Central Trade Register.
• For online applications: registration/login via BundID
Documents you need
• Business registration or business re-registration
You can do this online; alternatively, you can use the form for business registration or re-registration.
• Identity document
Identity card or other official identification document with photo (not required for electronic application). Residence permit if the applicant is not a national of an EU country.
• Certificate of good conduct for presentation to an authority service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/120926/
To verify personal reliability, an extract from the Federal Central Register (certificate of good conduct) is required for submission to an authority (document type O).
The information must not be older than three months.
• Excerpt from the central business register for presentation to an authority service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/327835/
To verify personal reliability, information from the central business register is required for submission to an authority (document type 9).
The information must not be older than three months.
• Up-to-date excerpt from the Trade Register www.handelsregister.de/rp_web/welcome.xhtml
Registered companies are required to submit an up to date excerpt from the Trade Register when applying. Legal entities that are in the process of being established (GmbH, AG) are required to submit their partnership agreement or statutes.
• Declaration of consent of the shareholders
Only for business notifications of legal entities in the process of formation
• Supplement for authorised representatives
In the case of business registrations for legal entities with multiple representatives
Forms
• Trade registration (Gewerbeanmeldung) www.berlin.de/formularverzeichnis/?formular=/wirtschaft/gewe
• business re-registration www.berlin.de/formularverzeichnis/?formular=/wirtschaft/gewe
• Declaration of consent of the shareholders www.berlin.de/formularverzeichnis/?formular=/wirtschaft/gewe
• Supplement to the application for authorised representatives www.berlin.de/formularverzeichnis/?formular=/wirtschaft/gewe
Fees
• EUR 26.00 - per single person company, per associate for business partnerships
• EUR 31.00 - legal entity with 1 legal representative
• EUR 13.00 - for each additional representative of a legal entity
• EUR 20.00 - per trade reregistration
• EUR 15.00 - business registration via electronic process (online processing)
Legal basis
• Trade regulations (GewO) § 38 - Trades requiring supervision www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gewo/__38.html
• Trade Regulations (GewO) § 14 Sec. 1 - Duty of disclosure www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gewo/__14.html
• Trade Registration Ordinance (Gewerbeanzeigeverordnung or GewAnzV) www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gewanzv_2014/
• Schedule of Administrative Fees (Verwaltungsgebührenordnung (VGebO)) <https://gesetze.berlin.de/bsbe/?aiz=1&docId=jlr-VwGebOBE2009rahmen&query=JURISLINK%3A%22VwGebO+BE%22>
Further information
• Privacy policy (Public Order Offices of Berlin) www.berlin.de/formularverzeichnis/?formular=/wirtschaft/gewe
Who is responsible
The Ordnungsamt (public order office) of the district in which the company's business premises are located.
Responsible for you
Choose a location; the appointment itself is booked on the original page.
- Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
- Ordnungsamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
- Bezirksamt Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
- Ordnungsamt Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg GewerbePetersburger Straße 86 - 90, 10247 Berlin
- Bezirksamt Lichtenberg
- Ordnungsamt Lichtenberg
- Bezirksamt Marzahn-Hellersdorf
- Bezirksamt Mitte
- Ordnungsamt Mitte - Arbeitsgruppe GewerbeKarl-Marx-Allee 31, 10178 Berlin
- Bezirksamt Neukölln
- Ordnungsamt Neukölln - Zentrale Anlauf - und BeratungsstelleJuliusstraße 67, 12051 Berlin
- Bezirksamt Pankow
- Ordnungsamt - Gewerbeangelegenheiten Fröbelstraße Haus 6
- Bezirksamt Reinickendorf
- Ordnungsamt Reinickendorf - Gewerbe
- Bezirksamt Spandau
- Ordnungsamt Spandau - Gewerbeservice
- Bezirksamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf
- Ordnungsamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf
- Bezirksamt Tempelhof-Schöneberg
- Ordnungsamt
- Bezirksamt Treptow-Köpenick
- Ordnungsamt Treptow-Köpenick / Gewerbeangelegenheiten
- Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Energie und Betriebe
Original
German originalOfficial English page
Service number 148182 · same path as the original: service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/148182/