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OpenRegistry API offers direct access to German company registry data

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OpenRegistry has developed a new API that provides direct access to Germany's Handelsregister, the official registry of companies. This API returns raw, unaggregated data from individual regional courts, preserving original German labels and details like company names, legal forms, registered addresses, and officer roles. While it offers granular information on corporate structure and filings, it does not include ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) data, which is maintained in a separate registry, nor does it automatically parse shareholder lists from PDF documents. AI

IMPACT Provides developers and researchers with direct programmatic access to German corporate data, streamlining investigative journalism and legal due diligence.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new API product that provides access to existing data, rather than a novel model release or significant industry event.

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OpenRegistry API offers direct access to German company registry data

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · OpenRegistry ·

    Germany’s Handelsregister via API: what the record actually shows

    <p>Every German company receives a court file number. A Berlin GmbH may appear as <strong>HRB 123456 B</strong>. Those letters indicate the register type and the local court, the Registergericht, that keeps the file. Germany has no single nationwide companies database. Each regio…

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