German Insolvency Announcements Scraper (Insolvenzbekanntmachungen)

Every insolvency proceeding in Germany is published on the federal portal insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de, run by the Bundesamt für Justiz. This Actor collects those announcements — all 16 federal states, all 193 insolvency courts — and returns them with the complete official text and the key figures already parsed out.

German law calls the procedure Insolvenz; English-language sources usually say bankruptcy. They mean the same register here — it covers corporate bankruptcy (Regelinsolvenz) and personal bankruptcy (Verbraucherinsolvenz) alike, from the opening decision and the dismissal for lack of assets through to the discharge of residual debt.

Why you cannot do this later

Browsing the register is limited to the last 14 days. Beyond that window the portal answers only targeted questions: you have to supply the name you are looking for, and for consumer proceedings opened from 26 March 2018 the insolvency court as well (§ 2 InsBekV). Announcements are deleted entirely six months after the proceeding closes (§ 3 InsBekV).

In other words: you can look up a name you already have, but you cannot go back and build a list. Nobody can hand you last month's openings in Bavaria after the fact — they were only ever browsable while they were fresh. That is what this Actor is for.

To look up names you already have, use the sister Actor German Insolvency Check.

What you get

Per announcement, the list fields plus the parsed contents of the official text:

Field	Example
datumIso, aktenzeichen, gericht	2026-08-17, 1507 IN 421/23, München
name, sitz	"Die Auster" Gaststättenbetriebs-GmbH, München
gegenstand, bundesland	Eröffnungen, Bayern
verwalter, verwalterAdresse, verwalterTelefon, verwalterEmail	Koller Christina, Bahnhofstraße 5, 94315 Straubing, +49(9421)5333930, info@inso-koller.de
anmeldefristBis	2026-10-05 — deadline for filing claims
eroeffnetAm, eroeffnetUm	2026-08-17, 10:15
verteilungsmasse, insolvenzforderungen, quoteProzent	1701.08, 121659.69, 0.0
registergericht, registernummer	Amtsgericht Hof, HRB 6777
geburtsdatum, schuldnerAnschrift, geschaeftszweig	for consumer proceedings
vertretenDurch	managing directors / board members
termine	list of hearing dates with times
volltext	the complete official announcement
id	stable hash, for deduplication across runs

Fields that a particular announcement does not contain are null — never guessed. A distribution notice has amounts but no administrator appointment; an opening decision has the administrator but no distribution figures.

Typical uses

• Credit risk / debtor monitoring — watch your customer base for openings and dismissals for lack of assets
• Distressed M&A and asset deals — react to openings and protective measures within hours, not weeks
• Lead lists of insolvency administrators — name, address, phone and email, extracted from the appointment decisions
• Claim deadlines — anmeldefristBis tells creditors when to file
• Research and market analysis — insolvency volume by state, court, or type

Related Actors

German Insolvency Check answers the opposite question: you hand it a list of names, it tells you for each one whether the register has anything on it, which court, which file number and whether the proceeding is still running. Use this Actor to watch the stream, use that one to screen a list you already have.

Court-ordered property auctions are published on a different federal portal, and the same people tend to watch both. German Foreclosure Auctions covers about 3,400 live proceedings with the auction date, the court, the property, its full address and its appraised market value. Some of those auctions are filed by the insolvency administrator of a case you will find here.

Public authorities sell off what they seize, confiscate and retire on two official portals of their own. German Government Auctions collects both into one schema — current bid, closing time, pickup address and a named contact with phone number and e-mail at the selling authority — for the 2,500-odd lots that are live at any given moment.

For suppliers and customers in Poland, Poland Company Check does the screening against the official KRS court register and the VAT white list: one row per KRS number, NIP or REGON, with bankruptcy, liquidation and tax-arrears entries kept apart from proceedings that have ended. Norway Company Check does the same for Norway against the Brønnøysund registers, including the court-appointed trustee of a bankrupt company and three years of annual accounts. Finland Company Check does it for Finland against PRH/YTJ, with restructuring, tax registers and digital financial statements. UK Company Check does it for the UK against Companies House, with strike-off notices, insolvency cases, charges and balance sheet figures.

Input

Everything is optional. The defaults cover the last three days across all states and stop after 50 entries, so a first trial run stays short — set maxErgebnisse to 0 for a real run.

Option	Default	Meaning
bundeslaender	all 16	Which federal states to cover
tageZurueck	3	Days back from today (0 = today only, max 13)
datumVon / datumBis	—	Explicit ISO dates, override tageZurueck
gegenstaende	all	Restrict to openings, dismissals, distributions, …
volltext	true	Fetch the full text (one extra request per entry)
nurNeue	false	Skip anything previous runs already returned
suchbegriff	—	Keep only entries whose debtor or seat contains this text
maxErgebnisse	50	Stop after N entries; 0 = no limit
statusSpeicher	insolvenz-gesehen	Named store for nurNeue; use different names for independent monitors
pauseSekunden	0.2	Delay before each request to the portal

For monitoring, set nurNeue: true and schedule the Actor. It remembers what it has already returned and only gives you — and only charges you for — genuinely new announcements.

Scale and speed

A full national weekday is roughly 4,000–5,000 announcements (4,740 on 7 October 2026, North Rhine-Westphalia alone 1,162). A full text usually comes back in 0.1 s, but the portal stalls for 10–20 s now and then; measured in October 2026 that averages 0.5–1 s per full text including the polite pause. A nationwide day with full texts therefore takes roughly 40–80 minutes, a large state like NRW 10–20.

Long runs end cleanly instead of timing out. Shortly before the run's timeout the Actor stops, saves its state and finishes as succeeded; the status message says where it stopped. With nurNeue: true the next run picks up the rest, and announcements it has already returned are skipped without being fetched again — you are never charged twice. For nationwide runs over several days, raise the run timeout or split the job by state.

The Actor talks plain HTTP to the portal — no headless browser — which is why it is fast and cheap to run.

Limits, honestly

• 14 days maximum. The Actor browses the register, and browsing is what the portal limits to that window; dates further back are silently clamped. This is a legal restriction, not a technical one. Targeted lookups by name are not affected — that is the sister Actor's job.
• 1,000 hits per query is the portal's hard cap. The Actor works around it by splitting each state-day by announcement type and, if needed, by court. If a single court still exceeds 1,000 announcements in one day for one type, that segment is logged as incomplete rather than silently truncated.
• Announcement dates are publication dates. The decision inside the text is often dated earlier.
• One proceeding can produce several announcements on the same day, with identical list rows and different texts. They are returned as separate records and told apart by id.
• Name order follows the source. Courts write administrators sometimes as "Birgitt Breiter" and sometimes as "Breiter Birgitt". The Actor passes through what the announcement says rather than guessing which part is the surname.

Personal data

Consumer insolvency announcements (IK file numbers) contain the debtor's name, date of birth and full home address. That is what the official publication says — this Actor does not add anything. Processing it is subject to the GDPR and to the deletion periods of § 3 InsBekV. Build monitoring on it, not a permanent archive.

Pricing

Pay per event:

Event	What it covers
actor-start	once per run
treffer	one announcement, list fields only
treffer-volltext	one announcement including the full official text

You pay for what you take: list-only monitoring is cheap, full texts cost more because they require a separate request each.

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