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Presscouncil City of Chemnitz
Pressrelease: 464

Objection to the disclosure of personal data

Renewed notice in accordance with the Federal Registration Act

The Citizens' Office provides information about the current regulations on the disclosure of citizens' personal data to organisations, parties or religious communities. According to these regulations, citizens of Chemnitz can object to their data being passed on by submitting an application to the Citizens' Registration Office.

The registration office may pass on personal data in accordance with the Federal Registration Act in the following cases:


In accordance with Section 42 of the Federal Registration Act, data to religious organisations under public law. If members of a religious organisation under public law have family members who do not belong to the same or any religious organisation under public law, the registration authority may also pass on the first and last names of these family members.The registration authority may also transmit their first and last names, date and place of birth, gender, affiliation to a public religious organisation, current addresses and last previous address as well as date of death. Family members are the spouse or partner, underage children and the parents of underage children.


The registration authority may also provide information from the population register for the following specific purposes in accordance with Section 50 of the Federal Registration Act:

  1. Information to parties, voter groups and other supporters of election proposals in connection with elections and votes at state and municipal level in the six months preceding the election or vote. These are selected groups of eligible voters, the composition of which is determined by age. The information includes surname, first names, doctor's degree and current addresses. The person or organisation to whom the data is transmitted may only use it for advertising in an election or vote.
  2. Information to elected officials, the press or radio about residents' anniversaries. Age anniversaries are the 70th birthday, every fifth subsequent birthday and every subsequent birthday after the 100th birthday; marriage anniversaries are the 50th and every subsequent marriage anniversary. The information includes surname, first names, doctor's degree, address, date and type of anniversary.
  3. Information to address book publishers on all residents who have reached the age of 18. The information includes surname, first names, doctorate and current addresses. The data provided may only be used for the publication of address books (address directories in book form).


You can obtain the application form to object to the forwarding of your data from the Chemnitz registration office, the city's citizen service centres and online in the City of Chemnitz service portal.


(Keyword: data protection) https://chemnitz.de/dienstleistungsportal/

Objections to the transfer of a data subject's data should be addressed to
City of Chemnitz, Citizens' Office, Registration Office, 09106 Chemnitz (Headquarters: Düsseldorfer Platz 1)


The current office hours of the registration office, Düsseldorfer Platz 1, are
Monday and Friday, from 8 am to 12 noon,
Tuesday and Thursday, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday, from 9 am to 1 pm.


Citizen service centres:
https://www.chemnitz.de/chemnitz/de/rathaus/aemterservice/buergerservicestellen/index.html


Further information can be obtained by dialling 115.