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Presscouncil City of Chemnitz
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Objection to the disclosure of personal data

Public announcement in accordance with the Federal Registration Act

The registration authority may transmit data to religious organisations under public law in accordance with Section 42 of the Federal Registration Act. 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 transmit the first and last names, date and place of birth, gender, affiliation to a religious organisation under public law 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, information blocks in accordance with Section 51 and 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).

The data will not be transmitted if the data subject objects to this. Objections already submitted in previous years remain valid and do not have to be repeated.

The application to object to the transfer of data is available at the Chemnitz registration office, at the city's citizen service centres and online in the City of Chemnitz service portal.

Data protection: Objection to the disclosure of personal data

Objections to the transfer of a data subject's data should be addressed to

City of Chemnitz,
Citizens' Office, Registration Office,
09106 Chemnitz (Seat: Düsseldorfer Platz 1)

They can also be submitted to any citizen service centre of the City of Chemnitz. Overview of citizen service centres

Further information can be obtained by dialling 115.

This is a public announcement in accordance with Section 42 (3) and Section 50 (5) of the Federal Registration Act of 3 May 2013 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 1084), last amended by Article 5 (2) of the Act of 21 June 2019 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 846).