Germany Handelsregister Scraper - Company Data, Officers & Capital

Extract official company data from the German Commercial Register (Handelsregister) - master data, registered office, registered capital, legal form, officers / managing directors (Geschäftsführer) with dates of birth, business purpose and representation rules. Search by company name or register number and get clean, structured JSON in seconds, parsed from the register's official structured (XJustiz) content.

There is no official public API for handelsregister.de. This actor is the API.

Zero setup - clean structured data, no scripting

handelsregister.de has no official public API, runs slowly, and limits how fast it can be queried. This actor takes care of the access, retries and parsing for you - just send a company name and get clean structured JSON back. No proxy to configure, no infrastructure to manage, no browser to script. All access costs are already included in the price, so there is no separate bill to worry about.

Quick Start

Click Try it and paste this input:

{
  "searchQuery": "Zalando SE"
}

Or pin an exact company name and cap the results:

{
  "searchQuery": "BioNTech",
  "exactMatch": true,
  "maxResults": 5
}

Sample Output

{
  "companyName": "Connected Retail GmbH",
  "legalForm": "Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung",
  "legalFormCode": "221110",
  "registerCourt": "Amtsgericht Charlottenburg",
  "registerType": "HRB",
  "registerNumber": "HRB 215511 B",
  "euid": "DEF1103R.HRB215511B",
  "status": "aktuell",
  "seat": "Berlin",
  "address": {
    "street": "Valeska-Gert-Straße",
    "houseNumber": "5",
    "postalCode": "10243",
    "city": "Berlin",
    "formatted": "Valeska-Gert-Straße 5, 10243 Berlin"
  },
  "capital": { "amount": 30000, "currency": "EUR", "formatted": "30000.00 EUR" },
  "officers": [
    { "name": "Tim Seelmann", "firstName": "Tim", "lastName": "Seelmann", "dateOfBirth": "1990-03-24", "city": "Berlin", "roleCode": "086", "role": "Geschäftsführer" },
    { "name": "Joanna Ewa Rogers", "firstName": "Joanna Ewa", "lastName": "Rogers", "dateOfBirth": "1975-02-26", "city": "Berlin", "roleCode": "086", "role": "Geschäftsführer" }
  ],
  "representationRule": "Ist ein Geschäftsführer bestellt, so vertritt er die Gesellschaft allein. Sind mehrere Geschäftsführer bestellt, wird die Gesellschaft gemeinschaftlich durch zwei Geschäftsführer oder durch einen Geschäftsführer in Gemeinschaft mit einem Prokuristen vertreten.",
  "businessPurpose": "Die Erbringung von Vertriebsdienstleistungen für Einzelhändler ...",
  "registrationHistory": ["Die Gesellschaft hat auf Grund des Spaltungsvertrages vom 22.01.2020 ... im Wege der Ausgliederung übertragen."],
  "structuredData": true,
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.handelsregister.de",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-09T19:04:27.810Z"
}

Pricing

Pay-per-event - you pay only for results:

Event	Price
Actor start (per run)	$0.025
Company record returned	$0.008

A typical lookup costs about $0.033 for one company and scales linearly with maxResults (e.g. 10 companies ≈ $0.105). A search that returns nothing costs only the $0.025 start fee. There is no separate infrastructure bill - all access costs are already included in the prices above. No subscription, no minimum commitment.

Features

• Zero setup - no proxy or infrastructure to manage; reliable access is handled for you
• Search by name or register number - keyword search (Schlagwörter) or exact company name (genaue Firmenbezeichnung)
• Official structured data - parsed from the register's XJustiz XML (Strukturierter Registerinhalt), not scraped HTML
• Officers with dates of birth - managing directors, board members and Prokuristen with DOB and city (the key field for KYC name matching)
• Registered capital - amount and currency
• EUID - the European Unique Identifier for cross-border matching
• Representation rules & company history - Vertretungsregelung and Eintragungstexte
• Resilient - automatic retries against the slow government portal

Related Actors

Build a full cross-border KYC / company-intelligence stack with the rest of the suite:

• France Societe.com Scraper - French company directors, financials and shareholders (SIREN)
• Spain Company Directory Scraper - Spanish companies, officers, NIF and CNAE codes
• Austria WKO Business Directory Scraper - 620,000+ Austrian businesses with contact details
• Poland CRBR Beneficial Owners Scraper - ultimate beneficial owners (UBO) for KYC/AML
• Poland REGON Scraper - resolve any Polish company by name, NIP, KRS or REGON

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
searchQuery	string	No*	Company name or keyword(s) to search for (Schlagwörter)
exactMatch	boolean	No	Match the exact company name instead of keyword containment. Default false
registerNumber	string	No*	Register number to narrow the search, e.g. 215511
maxResults	integer	No	Max matching companies to return (1-30). Default 10

*Provide a searchQuery (alone or combined with a registerNumber). The portal does not allow searching by register number alone.

Output Fields

Field	Description
companyName	Full legal company name
legalForm / legalFormCode	Legal form (e.g. GmbH, AG) and its raw XJustiz code
status	Register status (e.g. aktuell)
registerCourt	Registering court (Registergericht, e.g. Amtsgericht Charlottenburg)
registerType	HRB / HRA / GnR / PR / VR
registerNumber	Register number
euid	European Unique Identifier
seat	Registered seat (Sitz)
address	Full registered address (street, house number, postal code, city, formatted)
capital	Registered capital (amount + currency)
officers	Representatives with name, firstName, lastName, dateOfBirth, city, role and raw roleCode
representationRule	General rule of representation (Vertretungsregelung); representationDetails for per-officer clauses
businessPurpose	Object of the company (Gegenstand des Unternehmens)
registrationHistory	Registration narrative entries (Eintragungstexte)
structuredData	true when official XJustiz structured content was parsed
sourceUrl / scrapedAt	Provenance

legalForm and officer role labels are mapped from the official XJustiz code lists for the most common values; the raw code (legalFormCode, roleCode) is always included so nothing is lost.

Use Cases

• KYC / KYB & onboarding - verify a German counterparty's legal identity, register status, capital and representatives
• Due diligence & compliance - capture officers (with dates of birth), representation rules and corporate history
• Sales & lead enrichment - resolve a company name to its official register data and decision-makers
• Risk & credit - monitor legal form, capital and status changes
• Investigations & research - map directorships and corporate structures across the largest EU economy

How It Works

The actor queries the public handelsregister.de search and parses each match's official XJustiz structured content (Strukturierter Registerinhalt) into clean JSON fields. It reads only the freely available, public register data - no login, no account, and no paid document purchase is involved. This is the same information any visitor can look up by hand; the actor simply returns it as structured data.

Data Source & Compliance

• Source: German Commercial Register portal - https://www.handelsregister.de
• Standard: XJustiz (the official German legal-data XML standard)
• Legal basis: § 9 HGB (Handelsgesetzbuch) - the Handelsregister is a public register open to everyone
• Officer data (names, dates of birth) is published by the register by law. Use it in compliance with the GDPR and applicable law.

European Business Data Suite

This Actor is part of a growing collection of European company data actors with no public API - structured JSON, pay-per-result, no subscriptions.

Country	Actor	Data Source	What it does
Germany	Handelsregister Scraper	Handelsregister	Company data, officers, capital
France	Societe.com	Societe.com	Directors, financials, shareholders
Spain	Company Directory	Registro Mercantil	NIF, officers, CNAE codes
Spain	Corporate Acts	BORME	Daily gazette, appointments
Austria	Business Directory	WKO	620,000+ businesses
Austria	Insolvencies	Ediktsdatei	Insolvency & auction edicts
Poland	10+ actors	KRS / eKRS / CRBR	Financials, UBO, directors, debtors

Full suite: apify.com/regdata

Auf Deutsch

Was macht dieser Actor?

Dieser Actor extrahiert offizielle Unternehmensdaten aus dem deutschen Handelsregister (handelsregister.de): Firma, Rechtsform, Registergericht, Registernummer (HRB/HRA), Sitz und Anschrift, Stammkapital, Geschäftsführer und Vorstände samt Geburtsdatum, Vertretungsregelung, Gegenstand des Unternehmens und Eintragungshistorie. Die Daten stammen aus dem Strukturierten Registerinhalt (XJustiz-XML) und werden in sauberes JSON umgewandelt. Es gibt keine offizielle API - dieser Actor ersetzt sie.

Für wen?

Für Compliance- und KYC/KYB-Teams, die deutsche Geschäftspartner verifizieren, Due-Diligence- und Kanzlei-Workflows, Vertrieb und Lead-Anreicherung sowie Risiko- und Kreditanalyse. Kein Proxy und kein Setup nötig - der zuverlässige Zugriff ist bereits eingebaut. Keine Abos - Sie zahlen nur pro Ergebnis.

Notes & Limits

• Returns matches from the first results page (up to maxResults). For one specific company, use exactMatch or add a registerNumber.
• The register's document service has its own rate limit. Under heavy use, some records may return core identity only (company name, register number, court, status) with a "retry later" status instead of the full SI document; simply rerun those for the complete structured data. The structuredData field is true when the full document was parsed.
• Data originates from the German federal-state register portal and is provided as-is.

Disclaimer

This actor extracts publicly available information from the German Commercial Register for legitimate business purposes (KYC/AML, due diligence, research). Personal data of officers is published by the register by law; process it in compliance with the GDPR and applicable law.

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Handelsregister Auszug als API - Firmendaten, Geschäftsführer & Kapital

Automatischer Abruf von Handelsregister-Daten über handelsregister.de: Firmenname, Rechtsform (GmbH, AG, UG), Registergericht, HRB-/HRA-Nummer, Sitz, Stammkapital, Geschäftsführer mit Geburtsdatum, Vertretungsregelung und Unternehmensgegenstand - alles als strukturiertes JSON, ohne Proxy und ohne eigenes Setup. Ideal für KYC/KYB, Compliance, Due Diligence und Lead-Anreicherung in Deutschland.