resume one's birth name
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzYou have divorced or ended your civil partnership and would like to change your name? If your maiden name or name before marriage or civil partnership was not your family name (married name or partnership name), you have the following options:
- You can revert to your maiden name or the name you used until your married name was determined.
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You may prefix or append the following names to the married name:
- Your maiden name or
- the name used at the time of the declaration on the determination of the married name.
- You can discard a companion name prefixed or appended during the marriage.
You can submit the declaration of name change at any registry office. You must have it certified either by a notary public or by a registrar. The declaration becomes effective as soon as it reaches the registry office.
You will receive a certificate confirming the change of name.
The marriage register and the birth register are updated.
Your registry office is responsible.
- Divorce or
- Cancellation of civil partnership
- Passport or identity card,
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In case of a visit to the registry office which keeps the marriage register additionally:
- ...a final decree of divorce..,
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additionally in case of a visit to another registry office:
- certified printout from the marriage register and the final divorce decree, or
- certified printout from the marriage register with registered divorce.
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The nearest responsible office to you:
Standesamt
The registry office in Mainz is only open to the public by prior appointment.
Request for certificates
Under Downloads/Links you will find our ordering and payment system for certificates from the register of births, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths.
Alternatively, you can request certificates in writing or by fax. Please enclose a copy of your identity card or passport. We will send you the certificate by cash on delivery. You pay the fee plus a postal charge to the delivery company.
The order address is:
Registry Office Mainz, Kaiserstraße 3-5, 55116 Mainz
Fax: +49 6131 12-2032
Leaving the church
If you wish to submit a declaration of withdrawal from the church, you must first make an appointment.
Use the following link to register your intention to leave the church:
Online pre-registration to leave the church
Alternatively, you can submit the declaration in writing to the registry office. The declaration must be publicly notarized, e.g. by a notary.
Recommendation for wearing masks
In all administrative buildings, there is no longer an obligation to wear medical face masks (surgical masks), FFP2 masks or masks of a comparable standard.
Nevertheless, all citizens are free to wear a mask. Please also observe the distancing and hygiene rules.
Address
55116 Mainz
Remark:
Kaiserstraße Town Hall, Kreyßig Wing
Building access
Remark:
Wheelchair-accessible WC available (5th floor Kreyßig wing, first floor Lauteren wing).
Postal address
55026 Mainz
Building access
Remark:
Wheelchair-accessible WC available (5th floor Kreyßig wing, first floor Lauteren wing).
Contact
Telephone
Telephone
Fax
Opening hours
All offices are open to the public by appointment.
Certificate office, church resignations:
If you would like to speak to us in person, you must make an appointment by telephone beforehand.
Birth certificates:
If you would like to speak to us in person, you must first make an appointment by telephone.
Death certifications:
Monday 8.30 am to 12 noon
Tuesday 8.30 am to 12 noon
Wednesday 10 am to 12 noon
Thursday 8.30 am to 12 noon
Friday 8.30 am to 12 noon
Marriage registrations, special cases, e.g. certificate of capacity to marry, name declarations:
If you would like to speak to us in person, you must first make an appointment by telephone.
Pension law matters:
If you would like to speak to us in person, you must first make an appointment by telephone.
Contact person
Address
55116 Mainz
Postal address
55026 Mainz
Telephone
Fax
room
Responsible for:
Address
55116 Mainz
Postal address
55026 Mainz
Telephone
Fax
room
Responsible for:
Sachgebiet Personenstandsrechtliche Sonderfälle, Urkundenbestellungen, Familienbuch und Eheanmeldungen
Address
55116 Mainz
Remark:
Kaiserstraße Town Hall, Kreyßig Wing
Building access
Remark:
Wheelchair-accessible WC available (5th floor Kreyßig wing, first floor Lauteren wing).
Postal address
55026 Mainz
Building access
Remark:
Wheelchair-accessible WC available (5th floor Kreyßig wing, first floor Lauteren wing).