Name change
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzIf you wish to change your surname and/or first name outside the regulations of civil law (e.g. not in the case of marriage or divorce), you must apply for this change of name under public law.
Please note:
- Name changes can only be carried out for Germans within the meaning of the Basic Law, stateless persons, homeless foreigners, foreign refugees or persons entitled to asylum.
- Only important reasons justify the change of name. The reasons must therefore be explained in detail in the application.
- For a person with limited legal capacity, the legal representative (father, mother, guardian, custodian) submits the application; a guardian requires the approval of the family court, a custodian the care court. A person with limited legal capacity who has reached the age of 16 must be heard on the application by the family or guardianship court. The court's approval and proof of the result of the court hearing of the applicant must be attached to the application.
- The application must contain a statement as to whether a change of name has been applied for previously, if so, when and with which authority.
- The applicant must also declare that he/she is aware that the change of name or the rejection or withdrawal of the application is subject to a fee.
Please seek advice from the authorities when completing the application if anything is unclear.
The application is submitted to the name change authority; this is the municipal administration of the municipality not belonging to an association, the association municipality administration and, in cities not belonging to a district or a large district, the city administration.
- Proof that the applicant is either German within the meaning of the Basic Law or stateless, homeless foreigner, foreign refugee, asylum seeker (e.g. citizenship card, passport, travel document, identity card, child ID card)
- late repatriate certificate or expellee identity card (for late repatriates and expellees)
- a certified copy of the birth entry for the applicant and for all persons to whom the change of surname is to apply; the documents must be recent
- if the applicant is or was married, the marriage certificate
- In the case of a change of name for family law reasons, the birth and marriage certificates of the family members whose name the applicant wishes to adopt must also be submitted
- for persons who have reached the age of fourteen, a certificate of good conduct in accordance with the Federal Central Register Act (to be applied for at the responsible registration authority; the certificate of good conduct will be sent directly to the name change authority by the issuing authority)
Please note:
The documents should always be submitted in the original. All application documents remain with the authority. The original documents submitted will be returned to you once the copies have been certified.
In individual cases, further documents and evidence may be required to process the application. You can obtain information on this from the relevant name change authority.
The amount of the fee depends on the administrative effort and the significance, economic value or other benefit of the official act for the applicant.
Your responsible office:
Verbandsgemeinde Vordereifel - Fachbereich 3 - Bürgerdienste
Visitor address
Kelberger Str. 26
56727 Mayen
56727 Mayen
Contact
Telephone
02651 8009-0
Fax
02651 8009-20
Website
Remark:
Department
Head: Anna Döpgen
Contact person
P.O. Box
56710 Mayen
Address
Kelberger Straße 26
56727 Mayen
56727 Mayen
Telephone
02651 8009-32
Fax
02651 8009-20
Website
room
A108
Responsible for:
- Vordereifel:
- Apply for a change of address in the electronic proof of identity
- Apply for a change of address on the eID card
- Apply for a change of residence in your passport
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a new identity card because of theft
- Apply for a new identity card if lost
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for a passport due to change of other data
- Apply for a passport with 48 pages
- Apply for a postal vote
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for an identity card for the first time
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Applying for a passport due to a name change
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Budget certificate
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of residence
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Determine eligibility for election to the district council
- Electronic proof of identity Blocking
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Exchange old driver's license for a new one
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended information from the civil register
- Extended registration certificate issuance
- Fishing licence issuance
- Have a new address entered on your ID card
- Have your identity card changed
- ID card Issuing information on the ID card with online ID function
- ID card Storage of signature certificates in the chip
- ID card storage in the chip
- Identity card Registration of a stage name
- Identity card information issue
- Identity card status query
- Issuing information from the population register
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance company Issue
- Name change
- New passport issue due to change of name on marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Notarization of documents or signatures
- Official registration confirmation Issue
- Passport change
- Passport issuance for Germans living abroad
- Passport issue
- Passport issue for adults for the first time
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport issue provisional
- Passport notification
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report due to find
- Passport status query
- Passport theft report
- Passport: Enter child
- Pick up identity card
- Place of residence - registration of the sole or main residence
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration certificate issue
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- Report the theft of your own identity card
- Reporting the loss of your own identity card
- Reporting the retrieval of your own identity card
- Residence deregistration
- Simple information from the population register
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
P.O. Box
56710 Mayen
Address
Kelberger Straße 26
56727 Mayen
56727 Mayen
Telephone
02651 8009-33
Fax
02651 8009-20
Website
room
A109
Responsible for:
- Vordereifel:
- Apply for a change of address in the electronic proof of identity
- Apply for a change of address on the eID card
- Apply for a change of residence in your passport
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a new identity card because of theft
- Apply for a new identity card if lost
- Apply for a passport
- Apply for a passport due to change of other data
- Apply for a passport with 48 pages
- Apply for a postal vote
- Apply for a second passport
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for an identity card for the first time
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Applying for a passport due to a name change
- Blocking of information and transmission in the population register, entry, blocking of transmission of information to parties, etc.
- Budget certificate
- Carry out declarations for the identity card
- Change of residence
- Deregistering the secondary residence
- Determine eligibility for election to the district council
- Electronic proof of identity Blocking
- Electronic proof of identity Change PIN
- Exchange old driver's license for a new one
- Exempt from identification requirements
- Extended information from the civil register
- Extended registration certificate issuance
- Fishing licence issuance
- Have a new address entered on your ID card
- Have your identity card changed
- ID card Issuing information on the ID card with online ID function
- ID card Storage of signature certificates in the chip
- ID card storage in the chip
- Identity card Registration of a stage name
- Identity card information issue
- Identity card status query
- Issuing information from the population register
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance company Issue
- Name change
- New passport issue due to change of name on marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Notarization of documents or signatures
- Official registration confirmation Issue
- Passport change
- Passport issuance for Germans living abroad
- Passport issue
- Passport issue for adults for the first time
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport issue provisional
- Passport notification
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report due to find
- Passport status query
- Passport theft report
- Passport: Enter child
- Pick up identity card
- Place of residence - registration of the sole or main residence
- Population register information Provision of group information
- Providing information to political parties and voter groups
- Register residence
- Registering a secondary residence
- Registration certificate issue
- Registration information Issuing self-disclosure
- Registration register information issued to landlords
- Report the theft of your own identity card
- Reporting the loss of your own identity card
- Reporting the retrieval of your own identity card
- Residence deregistration
- Simple information from the population register
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage