🇩🇪 Germany B2B Lead & Legal Impressum Extractor

Extract verified German B2B company decision-makers enriched with Managing Director (Geschäftsführer / Inhaber) names, direct emails, phone numbers, VAT tax IDs, and commercial court register details (Handelsregister) directly from official German legal disclosure pages (§ 5 DDG).

{
  "company_name": "Health365 AC GmbH",
  "industry_category": "IT-Beratung",
  "managing_director": "Dr. Jens Mark",
  "verified_email": "kontakt@h365.de",
  "direct_phone": "+49 30 8093 3285",
  "address": "Kurfürstendamm 114, 10711 Berlin",
  "city": "Berlin",
  "website": "https://www.h365.de",
  "impressum_url": "https://www.h365.de/impressum",
  "vat_id": "DE301948271",
  "commercial_register": "HRB 173920 B",
  "data_source": "gelbeseiten.de"
}

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⚖️ Why German B2B Leads Require Impressum Extraction (§ 5 DDG)

In Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, strict federal law (§ 5 Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz - DDG, formerly § 5 TMG) legally mandates that every commercial website MUST publish an official legal disclosure page called the "Impressum".

Under federal legislation, German business owners must publicly disclose:

• 👔 The Managing Director / CEO / Owner’s Full Legal Name (Geschäftsführer, Inhaber, or Vorstand)
• 📧 Direct Legal Corporate Email Address
• 📞 Direct Voice Telephone Line
• 📍 Official Registered Business Address & Postal Code (PLZ)
• 🏛️ Commercial Court Register Number (Handelsregister HRB / HRA / PR)
• 💳 DACH Corporate VAT Tax ID (USt-IdNr.)

Generic web scrapers fail in Germany because they only grab generic info@ addresses. This Actor inspects company websites, discovers the /impressum legal page, de-obfuscates anti-spam email formats, and extracts the verified decision-maker.

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⚡ Key Features & Engineering Highlights

• 🎯 Verified Decision-Maker Extraction: Captures German titles (Dr., Prof., Dipl.-Ing., Dipl.-Kfm.), multi-part hyphenated surnames (Meyer-Eckhardt), and aristocratic prefixes (von, zu).
• 🛡️ Email De-obfuscation Engine: Automatically parses anti-spam tricks like info [at] domain [dot] de, kontakt(ät)company.com, and encoded HTML entities.
• 📞 Voice Phone vs. Fax Separation: Specifically isolates voice lines and automatically filters out German fax numbers (Telefax).
• 🏛️ Handelsregister & Tax ID: Extracts German VAT IDs (DE...), Austrian VAT (ATU...), Swiss UID (CHE...), and HRB court numbers.
• ⚡ High-Speed HTTP Architecture: Consumes only 512 MB RAM with direct connection pooling — runs 10x faster than headless browser scrapers at near-zero Apify compute cost.
• 🤖 Autonomous Agent & n8n Ready: Pure Pay-Per-Event (PPE) schema allows n8n, Make, LangChain, Claude, and Zapier to enrich German leads on demand.

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🔄 1-Click n8n Automation Template (Recurring CRM Sync)

Automate your lead generation by syncing fresh German B2B leads directly into Google Sheets, Airtable, HubSpot, or Instantly every week!

flowchart LR
    A["⏰ Trigger<br/>(On Demand / Weekly)"] --> B["🇩🇪 Step 1: Directory Discovery<br/>(Gelbe Seiten / Das Örtliche)"]
    B --> C{"Filter<br/>Has Website?"}
    C -->|Yes| D["👔 Step 2: Impressum Extractor<br/>(Extracts CEO & Email)"]
    D --> E["📊 Final Output<br/>(Google Sheets / CRM)"]

📥 Ready-to-Use n8n Template: Download our ready-to-import n8n workflow JSON:
german_b2b_lead_machine_n8n_template.json — Copy and paste directly onto your n8n canvas!

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💡 The 2-Step B2B Power Funnel

This Actor works as the Downstream Enrichment Engine for your German sales pipeline:

1. Step 1 (Discovery): Run our directory scrapers to pull 500–2,000 targeted German businesses:
   • 👉 Germany Gelbe Seiten Scraper (Yellow Pages)
   • 👉 Germany Das Örtliche Scraper (Telecommunications Directory)
2. Step 2 (Enrichment): Feed the extracted website URLs into this Actor to automatically unlock the CEO / Managing Director names and verified emails.

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📥 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description	Example
city	String	No	Berlin	Target German city or postal district	München, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, Köln
industry	String	No	IT-Beratung	Business category or profession	Steuerberater, Maschinenbau, Zahnarzt, Immobilien
max_leads	Integer	No	50	Maximum number of leads to extract (1 to 5,000)	100, 500, 2000
website_urls	Array	No	[]	Direct list of company website URLs to enrich	["https://siemens.com", "https://zalando.de"]

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🎯 Top High-Value German Niches to Scrape

Industry Keyword	Target Region	Decision-Maker Title	Average Deal Value
Steuerberater	München	Kanzleiinhaber / Partner	High-ticket retainer (€5,000+/mo)
Finanzberatung	Frankfurt am Main	Geschäftsführer / Vorstand	Wealth & capital consulting
Maschinenbau	Stuttgart	Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter	Industrial engineering & robotics
Softwareentwicklung	Berlin	Gründer / Geschäftsführer	SaaS startups & tech scaleups
Rechtsanwälte	Hamburg	Partner / Kanzleileitung	Corporate, M&A, patent law
Immobilienmakler	Düsseldorf	Inhaber / Geschäftsführer	Commercial property brokerages
Zahnarzt	Köln	Praxisinhaber	High-income private dental clinics

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📊 Output Dataset Specification

Data is exported in Excel (.xlsx), CSV, JSON, or XML:

Column Name	Type	Description	Sample Value
company_name	String	Official registered business name	Health365 AC GmbH
industry_category	String	Targeted trade or sector	IT-Beratung
managing_director	String	Verified Geschäftsführer / Inhaber from Impressum	Dr. Jens Mark
verified_email	String	De-obfuscated legal contact email	kontakt@h365.de
direct_phone	String	Verified direct voice telephone line	+49 30 8093 3285
address	String	Full physical street address and PLZ	Kurfürstendamm 114, 10711 Berlin
city	String	German city name	Berlin
website	String	Official company website domain	https://www.h365.de
impressum_url	String	Exact legal page crawled	https://www.h365.de/impressum
vat_id	String	Corporate VAT Tax ID (USt-IdNr)	DE301948271
commercial_register	String	Commercial court record (Handelsregister)	HRB 173920 B

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💻 Programmatic Usage & API Integration

Python (apify-client)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN")

run_input = {
    "city": "München",
    "industry": "Steuerberater",
    "max_leads": 100
}

run = client.actor("dach_leads/germany-b2b-lead-impressum-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{item['company_name']} | CEO: {item['managing_director']} | Email: {item['verified_email']}")

Node.js (apify-client)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN' });

const input = {
    city: 'Berlin',
    industry: 'Softwareentwicklung',
    max_leads: 100,
};

const run = await client.actor('dach_leads/germany-b2b-lead-impressum-scraper').call(input);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

console.log(`Extracted ${items.length} German decision-makers.`);

cURL (Direct HTTP API)

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/dach_leads~germany-b2b-lead-impressum-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"city": "Frankfurt am Main", "industry": "Finanzberatung", "max_leads": 50}'

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💰 Pure Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing

• Only $1.50 per 1,000 verified leads ($0.0015 per record) — 60% cheaper than enterprise sales intelligence databases.
• $0.00 Actor Start Fee — Zero upfront charges.
• $0.00 for Dead / Unreachable URLs — You only pay when a valid lead record is produced.
• Zero Platform Surcharges — Lightweight HTTP architecture eliminates heavy compute usage fees.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: Is Impressum scraping GDPR (DSGVO) compliant?

A: Yes. Under German federal law (§ 5 DDG), commercial entities are legally required to maintain a publicly accessible Impressum specifically to disclose corporate representation. Processing publicly mandated business contact information for legitimate B2B purposes complies with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Q: How does the scraper find the Impressum page if it is not linked in the footer?

A: The Actor first inspects the website DOM for standard anchor tags (Impressum, Imprint, Legal Notice, Rechtliche Hinweise). If not found, it executes multi-path fallback probing across common routes (/impressum, /imprint, /de/impressum, /rechtliches/impressum, /kontakt/impressum).

Q: Can I upload my own list of German domains?

A: Yes! Pass an array of URLs to the website_urls parameter, and the Actor will enrich your custom domain list with CEO names, emails, and phone numbers.