Security guard business - register security guards
Bewachungsgewerbe - Wachpersonen melden
Official English page German-only parts machine-translated, 2026-09-15
If you want to employ guards in your security company or if you want to assign persons to manage the company or a branch office, you must register them online only via the guard register of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) prior to the start of employment.
If guards or persons with management activities leave the security company or if the data or tasks of these persons change, this must also be reported online via the guard register.
The obligation to report guards and persons entrusted with the management of the company or branch also applies to guarding companies that hire out these persons or assign them by way of temporary employment.
• Procedure flow
• You must register your guarding company with the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) in the guarding register.
• After successful registration, you can log in with your user data.
• The competent residence authority then checks the reliability and qualifications of the registered persons. You may only employ these persons with guarding tasks or management activities after official confirmation of their reliability.
Book an appointment
Book an appointment (service.berlin.de)
Requirements
• Reliability of the security guard, the manager of the business, the head of the branch office
Only persons who are reliable may be employed for security guard duties.
• Expert knowledge www.ihk.de/berlin/pruefungen-lehrgaenge/informationen-zum-be
• Proof of instruction of an IHK for conventional guarding activities
• Proof of expert knowledge examination of an IHK for special guarding activities or a comparable recognised professional qualification.
• Persons who are commissioned as company managers or with the management of branch offices require a certificate of competence.
Documents you need
• Register security guards (register in the Security Guard Register)
only online processing possible
• Certificate of instruction from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Industrie- und Handelskammer or IHK) for employees or other recognised certificates service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/330171/
sufficient for standard security guarding activities
• Proof of having passed the expert examination at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Industrie- und Handelskammer or IHK) or other recognised proofs service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/330153/en/
is only required for the following activities:
• patrols in public traffic areas or in areas of house rights with actual public traffic.
• Protection against shoplifters
• guarding in the entrance area of discotheques (bouncers)
• as far as in a leading function: guarding of accommodation for asylum seekers and refugees or guarding of access-protected large events
Fees
EUR 50.00 to EUR 350.00 per registered security guard (framework fee)
Legal basis
• Trade Regulation (Gewerbeordnung or GewO) § 34a www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gewo/__34a.html
• Ordinance on the Security Guarding Business (Bewachungsverordnung or BewachV) § 16 www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bewachv_2019/__16.html
• Schedule of Administrative Fees (Verwaltungsgebührenordnung (VGebO)) gesetze.berlin.de/perma?d=jlr-VwGebOBE2009V12Anlage
Processing time
4 weeks, provided that no further examination is required
Further information
• Information on the guard register from the Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt or Destatis) www.bewacherregister.de/bwrweb/DE/Home/_inhalt.html
• Instructions for commercial enterprises from the Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt or Destatis) www.bewacherregister.de/bwrweb/DE/Gewerbebetriebe/_inhalt.ht
• Information by the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Industrie- und Handelskammer or IHK) regarding the security guarding business www.ihk.de/berlin/service-und-beratung/existenzgruendung/inf
• Security guarding business - register for the expert knowledge examination service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/330153/en/
• Security guarding business - register for proof of instruction service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/330171/
• Information about privacy www.berlin.de/formularverzeichnis/?formular=/wirtschaft/gewe
Who is responsible
Security personnel (Wachperson) and persons appointed as operations manager or entrusted with managing branch offices must be registered exclusively online via the Bewacherregister (register of security personnel) of the Statistisches Bundesamt (Federal Statistical Office, Destatis).
• Ordnungsamt (public order office)
The responsible Wohnsitzbehörde (residence authority) then checks the reliability and qualification of the registered persons. If your residence is in Berlin, this is the Ordnungsamt in whose district the person has their residence.
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 Gewerbe
- Bezirksamt Lichtenberg
- Ordnungsamt Lichtenberg
- Bezirksamt Marzahn-Hellersdorf
- Ordnungsamt/Gewerbeamt 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
- Ordnungsamt Reinickendorf - Gewerbe
- Bezirksamt Spandau
- Bezirksamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf
- Ordnungsamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf
- Bezirksamt Tempelhof-Schöneberg
- Ordnungsamt
- Bezirksamt Treptow-Köpenick
- Ordnungsamt Treptow-Köpenick / Gewerbeangelegenheiten
Original
German originalOfficial English page
Service number 327781 · same path as the original: service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/327781/