!!!Standesamt

Registry Office, authority of indirect federal administration 
entrusted with the conclusion of civil marriages and registration and 
issuing of certificates of births, marriages and deaths. Until January 
1, 1939, these registers had been kept by the religious communities. 
Registry offices are subject to the district administrative 
authorities and also have to enforce court decisions (e.g. 
registration of divorces). They also keep records of births, families 
and deaths. Entries in these records are deemed authoritative until 
disproved.

!Literature
W. Ogris, Personenstandsrecht, 1977.


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