Discover German Company Data at Open Data Day 2019 – Berlin Edition
Interested in German company data? You need to come to the Open Data Day this Saturday, March 2, in Berlin...
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February 26, 2019
Wait, what? The problems of company numbers in Germany (and how we’re handling them)
In Germany, the incorporation of companies (and subsequent changes) is handled not by a central register, but by district courts (‘Amtsgerichts’) – in fact by around 150 such courts (out of a total 600). Unfortunately the identifiers each court issues are neither unique to that court, nor to Germany...
February 19, 2019
What the German company data tells us so far
You might have noticed that last week OpenCorporates launched the German company data. Bringing in the German company data was a mammoth task, as we've already started writing about – and we’ll be publishing more blog posts about the precise details of this in the near future.
February 11, 2019
Guest blog: Wer, wie, was – why Germany needs an open corporate register and open contracting
This week, OpenCorporates launched over 5 million companies from Germany, marking our 130th jurisdiction. This is a guest blog post by Georg Neumann, Senior Manager of Communications and Engagement at Open Contracting…
February 8, 2019
Creating the German open company data: how we did it
Since we launched the dataset of over 5 million German companies earlier this week, we’ve had lots of questions about how we assembled the data. This post aims to answer that question. It’s obviously quite detailed and technical, but we hope it will be of interest to a technical audience at least.
February 7, 2019
Press release: German company data must be available as open data
Yesterday, we announced the German company data is now in OpenCorporates. For the record, here’s the press release announcing it. Please feel free to distribute widely. Photo by Christian Wiediger on Unsplash EU…
February 6, 2019
German company data now available for download via Open Knowledge Deutschland!
Yesterday, OpenCorporates added 5 million German companies and over 4 million associated officers from the official German company gazette notices and register. As well as being an important jurisdiction in…
February 6, 2019
German company data now open for all
OpenCorporates is proud to announce that it has today added German company data, making this the 130th jurisdiction and one of the largest single jurisdictions. The German data adds over…
February 5, 2019
Germany: Do not let ‘personal security’ be the bait and switch for public accountability
Written by Chris Taggart and Hera Hussain When the announcement of a public beneficial ownership register in Germany was made in November 2016, it was welcomed by the transparency community…
February 28, 2017