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Parent Category: Private Legalities

Created on Tuesday, 06 November 2012 16:30

Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 February 2013 17:50

Death in Germany
What Red Tape Needs to be Cut

The law regulating the formalities of a person’s death cannot be precisely described on LG2G because this is state law. The German constitution determines that these regulations are determined by the 16 individual federal German states. For this reason, the exact legal situation will be slightly different in various regions. All states have public cemeteries. All states allow via treaties all religious denominations to have their own commentaries – as long as they are formed in a statutory body (Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts). If they are not formed in a statutory body and this denomination significantly differs from Christian religious / European traditions, this will raise problems. These problems will not be discussed on LG2G as they are too specific.

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