Hamburg marriage

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Hamburg marriage was colloquially referred to as a registered partnership according to the Hamburg "Law on the Registration of Same-Sex Partnerships" of April 8, 1999. According to this law, homosexual couples could have themselves entered in a partnership book of the Hamburg registry offices . This entry was purely symbolic; Section 1 (2) of the Act expressly stated:

"The entry does not result in any rights or obligations for the partners in the partnership, in particular the entry has no influence on the civil status."

Farid Müller ( GAL ) and Lutz Kretschmann (SPD) , who were openly homosexual members of the Hamburg parliament, and the round of red-green Senate in office since November 1997, pioneered the law .

The first entries were made on May 6, 1999. In April 2000, the then head of the Senate Office for Equal Opportunities , Senator Krista Sager (GAL), announced the registration of the hundredth marriage in Hamburg.

On August 1, 2001, the Hamburg law became obsolete with the entry into force of the Federal Civil Partnership Act of February 16, 2001. It was repealed by Article 2 of the law on the deregulation of state law of September 1, 2005 (HmbGVBl. P. 377). At that time there were 152 “Hamburg marriages”.

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