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Section 3

Data storage

(1) To carry out their tasks under the terms of section 2 (1) and (3), the registration authorities store the following data and remarks necessary to verify their accuracy in the population register:

1.  family name,

2.  previous names,

3.  given names, indicating name usually used,

4.  doctoral degree,

5.  religious name, stage or pen name,

6.  date and place of birth, including country for persons not born in Germany,

7.  gender,

8.  the identification number as referred to in section 139b of the Fiscal Code of Germany (Abgabenordnung),

9.  regarding legal representative

a)  family name,

b)  given names,

c)  doctoral degree,

d)  address,

e)  date of birth

f)  gender,

g)  date of death and

h)  blocks on releasing information within the meaning of section 51 and conditional blocks on releasing information within the meaning of section 52,

10.  current nationalities,

11.  legal membership of a religious community under public law,

12.  current addresses, previous addresses in the registration authority’s area of jurisdiction and address of the last sole or principal residence and last secondary residences outside the registration authority’s area of jurisdiction, indicating principal and secondary residence, including country for persons moving to Germany from abroad and last address in Germany, for persons moving abroad also the address abroad, including the country,

13.  date moved in, date moved out, date last moved out of a residence in Germany and date last moved to Germany from abroad,

14.  marital status, including, in the case of spouses or life partners, the date and place of marriage or registration of life partnership and, in the case of marriage or registration of life partnership abroad, the country,

15.  regarding spouse or life partner

a)  family name,

b)  given names,

c)  name at birth,

d)  doctoral degree,

e)  date of birth,

f)  gender,

g)  current addresses in the registration authority’s area of jurisdiction and address of the last sole or principle residence outside the registration authority’s area of jurisdiction,

h)  date of death and

i)  blocks on releasing information within the meaning of section 51 and conditional blocks on releasing information within the meaning of section 52,

16.  regarding minor children

a)  family name,

b)  given names,

c)  date of birth,

d)  gender,

e)  address in Germany,

f)  date of death,

g)  blocks on releasing information within the meaning of section 51 and conditional blocks on releasing information within the meaning of section 52,

17.  issuing authority, date of issue, date of expiry and serial number of the national identity card, temporary national identity card or substitute national identity card, of the recognised passport or passport substitute, issuing authority, date of expiry and serial number of the eID card, as well as the blocking code and blocking sum of the national identity card and of the eID card,

17a.  AZR number in the cases referred to in and in accordance with the provisions of section 10 (4) sentence 1 and sentence 2 no. 4 of the AZR Act (AZR-Gesetz),

18.  blocks on releasing and transferring information,

19.  date and place of death, including country for persons who died abroad.

(2) In addition to the data referred to in subsection (1), the registration authorities store the following data and remarks necessary to verify their accuracy in the population register:

1.  for the purposes of preparing and conducting elections and voting at national and local level, the fact that the data subject

a)  is not eligible to vote or be elected,

b)  has, as a Union citizen (section 6 (3) sentence 1 of the European Elections Act (Europawahlgesetz)), been entered in an electoral register in Germany for European parliamentary elections ex officio; the territorial community or constituency in the country of origin where the person was last listed in an electoral register is also to be stored,

c)  (repealed)

2.  for the process of creating and applying electronic criteria for the deduction of wages tax pursuant to section 39e (2) sentences 2 and 3 of the Income Tax Act (Einkommensteuergesetz),

a)  membership of a religious community which collects taxes and the date of officially joining and leaving,

b)  marital status,

c)  date of marriage or registration of life partnership or dissolution of marriage or life partnership and

d)  the identification numbers or temporary identifiers

aa)  of a spouse or life partner,

bb)  of minor children whose sole or principal residence is in the same registration authority’s area of jurisdiction,

3.  for the purposes of issuing the identification number as referred to in section 139b of the Fiscal Code of Germany until it is stored in the population register, the temporary identifier as referred to in section 139b (6) sentence 2 of the Fiscal Code of Germany,

4.  for the purposes of issuing passports and identity documents, the fact that there are reasons to refuse to issue a passport, that a passport has been denied or revoked or an order pursuant to section 6 (7), section 6a (1) or section 6a (2) of the Act on Identity Cards (Personalausweisgesetz) has been issued,

5.  (repealed)

6.  (repealed)

7.  for purposes related to weapons law, the fact that a weapons permit or a ban on possessing a weapon has been issued, and the respective authority which provided this information, including the date on which the weapons permit was first issued or the ban on possessing a weapon was issued,

8.  for purposes related to explosives law, the fact that an explosives permit or qualification certificate pursuant to section 20 of the Explosives Act (Sprengstoffgesetz) has been issued and the authority which provided this information, including the date on which the permit or certificate was first issued,

9.  for the purposes of answering questions from other authorities or public bodies concerning residence if the resident has moved out of the residence and the registration authority is not aware of a new residence, the request for data transfer with the date of the request and the name of the requesting body for a period of up to two years,

10.  for the purposes of checking whether the information provided by the person required to register is correct and to safeguard the rights to information in section 19 (1) sentence 3 and section 50 (4), the name and address of the owner of the residence and, if this is not the supplier of the residence, the name of the owner of the residence and the name and address of the supplier of the residence,

11.  in a state of tension or defence for the purposes of registering military or alternative service, the fact that a resident has already been registered before others in his or her birth cohort.

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