German Insolvency Monitor (Insolvenzbekanntmachungen)

Track every new German insolvency the day the court publishes it. This actor reads neu.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de, the official portal the German insolvency courts publish to, and returns each announcement as a clean row with the debtor, the court, the case number and the Handelsregister entry. Ask for the full published text and you also get the appointed Insolvenzverwalter and the deadline for filing claims. Run it on a schedule and get a Slack digest of only the notices that are new since last time.

No API key, no login, nothing to set up. You only pay for notices you actually get back.

Who uses this

• Credit control and risk teams screening German customers and suppliers against fresh insolvency openings, keyed on the HRB number so it joins straight to their own master data.
• Insolvency practitioners, restructuring advisors and turnaround firms watching for openings and preliminary protective measures in their region.
• Creditors and debt collectors who need the claims deadline and the administrator's office address the day the court sets them.
• Distressed asset buyers and investors looking for companies in trouble before anyone advertises them.
• B2B lead generation for anyone who sells to insolvency administrators: every opening names one, with an address.
• Data teams who want the German insolvency feed as tidy JSON instead of a session-bound search form.

What you get

One record per notice:

Field	Description
publicationDate	The day the court published the notice, as ISO date
noticeType	What happened, in plain words ("Insolvency proceedings opened")
debtorName	Company name, or surname and given name for a private debtor
debtorLocation	Registered seat or place of residence
isCompany	True for a registered business, false for a private individual
court	The insolvency court (Amtsgericht)
caseNumber	The Aktenzeichen, e.g. 514 IN 4/26
register	Commercial register entry as published
registerCourt / registerType / registerNumber	The same, split up, so HRB 41460 HB joins to your own company data
state / stateCode	Federal state, when the search was narrowed to one
administrator	Appointed Insolvenzverwalter, Sachwalter or Treuhänder with office address (needs the notice text)
decisionDate	The date of the court's decision (needs the notice text)
claimsDeadline	The § 174 InsO deadline for filing claims (needs the notice text)
noticeText	The complete published Veröffentlichungstext
noticeKey	Stable identity of the notice, so you can dedupe across runs
isNew	In monitor mode, whether the notice is new since the last run

Notice types you can track

Proceedings opened (Eröffnungen), preliminary protective measures (Sicherungsmaßnahmen), petitions dismissed for lack of assets (Abweisung mangels Masse), decisions during and after the proceeding, discharge of residual debt (Restschuldbefreiung), distribution schedules (§ 188 InsO), supervised insolvency plans, and everything filed as Sonstiges. Pick any combination.

For scale: on a working day the whole of Germany publishes roughly 5,000 notices of all types, of which about 500 are proceedings actually opened.

Input examples

Every new insolvency opening in Germany over the last three days:

{
  "noticeTypes": ["EROEFF"],
  "sinceDays": 3,
  "maxNotices": 2000
}

A scheduled daily monitor for North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria, with the full text and a Slack alert:

{
  "noticeTypes": ["EROEFF", "SICHMASS"],
  "states": ["NW", "BY"],
  "sinceDays": 2,
  "includeNoticeText": true,
  "monitorMode": true,
  "webhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXX/YYY/ZZZ"
}

Watch a handful of named companies across every notice type:

{
  "noticeTypes": ["EROEFF", "SICHMASS", "ABWMASS", "ENT_VERF"],
  "keywords": ["Sansibar", "Nord West Transporte"],
  "sinceDays": 14
}

How monitor mode works

Turn on monitorMode and schedule the actor, daily is typical. The first run records what is already published as a baseline. Every run after that returns, and charges for, only the notices that are new since the previous run, and posts them to your webhook if you set one. A quiet scheduled run therefore costs you a handful of new notices, not the whole window again.

The portal publishes no notice id of its own, so identity is the combination of publication day, court, case number, notice type and debtor. The same case coming back at a later stage is reported as the new event it is.

Output sample

{
  "noticeKey": "2026-08-03|bremen|514in4/26|EROEFF|ms-sansibar gmbh",
  "publicationDate": "2026-08-03",
  "noticeType": "Insolvency proceedings opened",
  "noticeTypeCode": "EROEFF",
  "caseNumber": "514 IN 4/26",
  "court": "Bremen",
  "state": "Bremen",
  "stateCode": "HB",
  "debtorName": "MS-Sansibar GmbH",
  "debtorLocation": "Bremen",
  "isCompany": true,
  "register": "Bremen, HRB 41460 HB",
  "registerCourt": "Bremen",
  "registerType": "HRB",
  "registerNumber": "41460 HB",
  "administrator": "Rechtsanwalt Christian Meyer, Gerhard-Rohlfs-Str. 16, 28757 Bremen",
  "decisionDate": "2026-08-01",
  "claimsDeadline": "2026-09-01",
  "noticeText": "514 IN 4/26 : Über das Vermögen der MS-Sansibar GmbH, Uhthoffstraße 10, 28757 Bremen (AG Bremen, HRB 41460 HB), vertr. d.: Uwe Schröter, (Geschäftsführer), ist am 01.08.2026 um 09:00 Uhr das Insolvenzverfahren eröffnet worden. Insolvenzverwalter ist: Rechtsanwalt Christian Meyer, ...",
  "sourceUrl": "https://neu.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de/ap/suche.jsf",
  "isNew": true,
  "retrievedAt": "2026-08-07T00:21:48.226Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription, and platform usage is included in the price, so what you see is what you pay. There are four events: a small flat fee when a run starts, one per notice returned, one per notice whose full text was actually delivered, and one per webhook digest posted in monitor mode. A notice the portal has no text for costs you nothing extra, and in monitor mode the persistent baseline means you are never billed twice for the same notice. Users on higher Apify plans get automatic discounts.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? neu.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de, the joint portal of the German state justice administrations. Insolvency courts are required by § 9 InsO to publish there, so this is the official public record, not a third-party aggregation.

Do I need an account or an API key? No. Nothing to set up, nothing to renew.

How fresh is it? Notices appear here the moment the court publishes them, which is the moment they become legally public. A daily scheduled run catches everything.

Can I get the Handelsregister number? Yes, whenever the court published one, split into court, type and number. That is what makes this easy to join to Bundesanzeiger financials, Handelsregister data or your own CRM.

Does it cover private individuals as well as companies? Yes. Consumer insolvency (Verbraucherinsolvenz) and discharge of residual debt are included, and isCompany tells the two apart so you can filter to businesses only.

What is the difference between the notice types? Sicherungsmaßnahmen come first, when the court appoints a preliminary administrator. Eröffnungen are the opening of the actual proceeding. Abweisung mangels Masse means the court refused to open one because there is not enough money to cover the costs, which is the end of the road for that company.

Why would I turn on the notice text? Because that is where the appointed administrator, the court's decision date and the § 174 InsO claims deadline live. Without it you still get the debtor, court, case number and register entry. It costs one extra request per notice, so a broad run is noticeably slower with it.

Can I search for a specific company? Yes, use keywords. It matches the debtor name, the town, the court, the case number and, with texts on, the whole published text. Umlauts and their transcriptions match each other, so München and Muenchen both work.

How far back can I look? Up to 30 days. Older notices thin out on their own: § 3 InsoBekV requires the portal to delete notices from a closed proceeding six months after it ends, and most other notices one month after publication. Separately, § 2 InsoBekV limits unrestricted browsing of the portal to about two weeks after publication. Neither matters for a monitor watching for new notices, but it does mean a deep look-back returns less than a fresh day.

Is this GDPR-safe? These are statutory publications the courts are legally required to make public, which is the same basis on which the portal itself serves them. Treat personal data in consumer insolvency notices accordingly.

Do you also cover France and the UK? Yes. See BODACC Insolvency Monitor for French procédures collectives and UK Insolvency Monitor for Gazette winding-up petitions and administrations. For German company master data, see German Company KYC.

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