Registrar
Registrar are clerk in registry office with notary similar tasks (and a prominent position). They have their own official seal and act in order management in accordance with the Civil Status Act , the Civil Status Ordinance and the "General Administrative Regulations for the Personal Status Act (PStG-VwV)".
The main activity is the processing and certification of civil status cases - that is, births , marriages , partnerships and deaths - as well as the related concerns of naming ( § 1 PStG). They handle all official acts with the exception of marriage, such as the examination of the ability to marry. In the notarization of civil status cases - and only in these cases - the registrars are not subject to any instructions ( § 2 PStG). Since registrars are not entitled to only exercise civil duties, they can be used for other administrative activities.
The officials are subject to their oath of service and are specially trained for these tasks. In Germany because the bureaucracy is more and more reduced, are increasingly Verwaltungsfachangestellte or administrators hosts used as registrar, while not in employment are an official, but officials in accordance with § 11 no. 2 of the Criminal Code are thus in their activities in the civil registry, the function name registrar to lead.
Some registrars wear an official costume at marriage and are assisted by officers . Some of the German registrars are organized in the Federal Association of German Registrars . There is an academy for civil status in Bad Salzschlirf in Hesse .
There have been registrars in Germany since the 19th century. In the southwest they were introduced under the Napoleonic occupation, in the rest of the German Empire by Otto von Bismarck in the course of the separation of religion and state .
