Bundesanzeiger Germany Monitor: Disclosures, Capital Changes & Insolvencies

⚡ Plain HTTP. No login, no API key, no proxy, no browser.

💸 You are only charged for a publication that actually lands in your dataset. A zero result search is never billed.

Overview

This actor searches Germany's official Bundesanzeiger, the Federal Gazette operated by Bundesanzeiger Verlag on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Justice. Every German company is legally required to publish here under the Handelsgesetzbuch (HGB): capital changes, shareholder resolutions, mergers, insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings, and financial disclosure notices. Give it a company name or keyword and get back structured rows: who filed, what area of the gazette, the publication headline, any related entity mentioned, and the date.

✅ Any German company name or keyword · ✅ Filter to insolvency proceedings specifically · ✅ Pagination handled · ✅ MCP ready for AI agents

An honest note on scope

This actor does not scrape handelsregister.de, the live commercial register search. That site was tested directly during development with realistic browser headers and a German Accept Language header, and the connection never completed: the TLS handshake hung until timeout from two independent networks, while every other German government site tested in the same session, including the sibling Unternehmensregister portal, responded normally. That pattern matches independent reports that handelsregister.de throttles or blocks automated queries from non German and datacenter source IPs at the network level, which is a harder wall than a CAPTCHA: there is no challenge to solve, the connection is simply never allowed to finish.

Bundesanzeiger is the statutory sibling system within the same German company transparency framework, and it is reachable over plain HTTP with no block. It does not hand back a company's live registration status, legal form, or officer roster the way a Handelsregister excerpt would. What it does hand back, often more useful for credit and know your business monitoring, is the trail of mandatory public disclosures: is this company changing its capital structure, entering insolvency proceedings, filing ad hoc disclosures, or making an announcement under company law. If you need the live registry snapshot itself, this is not that tool, and this README will not pretend otherwise.

Input

{
  "searchTerms": ["Siemens Aktiengesellschaft"],
  "category": "0",
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 40
}

Field	What it takes
searchTerms	One or more German company names or keywords. Each runs as its own search. A full legal entity name narrows results far better than a single generic word, since the search matches broadly across publication text.
category	Restrict to one publication area. Leave on All areas for the broadest coverage, or pick Insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings, the highest signal category for credit risk and counterparty monitoring. Stock corporation, GmbH, and partnership filters narrow to that legal form's own announcements.
maxResultsPerSearch	Hard cap per search term. Bundesanzeiger shows roughly 20 results per page, so this is your main cost and runtime control.

Output

{
  "search_term": "Siemens Aktiengesellschaft",
  "category": "Gesellschaftsbekanntmachungen",
  "publisher_name": "Siemens Pensionsfonds AG",
  "publisher_location": "Grünwald",
  "title": "Angaben gemäß § 134 c AktG zur Anlagestrategie der Siemens Pensionsfonds AG",
  "related_entities": ["Siemens Fonds Invest GmbH"],
  "publication_date_raw": "22.07.2026",
  "publication_date": "2026-07-22",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-13T20:15:00.000Z"
}

Field	Description
🔎 search_term	The term this row was found under
🗂️ category	Publication area as shown by Bundesanzeiger, for example Gesellschaftsbekanntmachungen or Kapitalmarkt
🏢 publisher_name	The company or entity that filed the publication
📍 publisher_location	The filer's registered location as shown
📄 title	The publication headline or subject
🔗 related_entities	Secondary company names or securities identifiers mentioned in the listing, when present
📅 publication_date_raw	Publication date exactly as displayed, DD.MM.YYYY
📅 publication_date	Publication date parsed to ISO 8601

Common use cases

Insolvency and credit monitoring. Filter to the insolvency category and run a watchlist of counterparties or suppliers on a schedule. A new hit is an early warning long before it shows up in a commercial credit report.

Capital structure tracking. Follow a competitor's or portfolio company's capital changes, share issuances, and shareholder resolutions as they are legally required to publish them.

Deal and market monitoring. Watch for merger, restructuring, and voting rights announcements around a company or sector of interest.

KYB and onboarding. Pull a business's public disclosure history as one input into a broader know your business check, alongside a registry lookup elsewhere in this catalogue.

AI agents. Feed structured German statutory disclosures into an agent that answers "has this company published anything unusual recently."

Pricing

Event	Price	You pay when
Publication delivered	$0.008	A publication row lands in your dataset

Searches that return nothing cost nothing.

Run it on a schedule

1. Run once with the search terms and category you want repeated, then click Save as a task.
2. In the Apify Console go to Schedules, Create new.
3. Pick a frequency and attach the saved task.
4. Wire the dataset to Sheets, Slack, or a webhook from the Integrations tab.

A daily or weekly schedule on an insolvency category search is the most common setup: it turns this into an early warning feed rather than a one off lookup.

FAQ

Do I need a Bundesanzeiger account? No. The actor reads the public search only.

Does this return the same thing as a Handelsregister excerpt? No, and this README says so on purpose. It returns statutory disclosure publications: announcements, capital changes, and insolvency proceedings. It does not return a company's registration status, legal form, or officer roster.

Why did my search return so many results for a short company name? Bundesanzeiger's full text search matches broadly across publication content, not just the filer's exact name. A precise full legal name, for example including the legal form suffix, narrows results considerably. Use the category filter to narrow further.

Can I search by insolvency proceedings alone, without a company name? Yes. Pass a broad or generic term alongside the insolvency category filter to monitor that category as a whole; a specific company name combined with that filter is the more common workflow.

How current is the data? Bundesanzeiger publishes disclosures as companies file them, typically within days of the underlying corporate action. This actor reads the live public search at run time.

Use from Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP agent

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=themineworks/germany-bundesanzeiger-monitor

Or call it programmatically:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

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

const run = await client.actor('themineworks/germany-bundesanzeiger-monitor').call({
  searchTerms: ['Siemens Aktiengesellschaft'],
  category: '59',
  maxResultsPerSearch: 40,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Questions, or need a category we do not expose yet? Reach out through the Apify profile.