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German insolvency courts (Insolvenzgerichte) are legally required to publish every decision in insolvency proceedings on the official portal neu.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de. Our API turns these raw announcements (Insolvenzbekanntmachungen) into structured, trackable insolvency proceedings: search across all cases, retrieve complete event histories, and resolve proceedings directly to companies in OpenRegister.

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What You Get

  • Complete proceedings - One record per court case (court and case number, Aktenzeichen), covering all published insolvency proceedings of German companies
  • Current status - Where the case stands (preliminary, opened, rejected_no_assets, lifted, and more), derived from the full event history
  • Structured event timeline - Every published announcement as a typed event, from the first security measures through opening, distributions, and closure
  • Company links - Proceedings resolved to OpenRegister companies (company_id) for direct lookup of the debtor company
  • Administration data - Administrator name and address, plus the administration kind: external administration, self administration (Eigenverwaltung), or protective shield (Schutzschirmverfahren)
  • Key dates and figures - Opening and closing dates, claims filing deadlines, distribution amounts, and insolvency grounds

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Use Cases

Risk Monitoring - Banks, insurers, and credit teams screen customers and suppliers for open insolvency proceedings before extending credit, and monitor their portfolio for new filings via webhooks. Restructuring & Distressed Assets - Investors and advisors identify newly opened proceedings by region, court, or date to source restructuring and acquisition opportunities early. Claims Management & Legal - Law firms and creditors track claims filing deadlines, follow individual cases event by event, and reconstruct the full insolvency history of a counterparty.

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API Endpoints

Insolvency Search

Search all proceedings with free text and filters for status, court, dates, debtor attributes, and more

Insolvency Proceeding

Retrieve a single proceeding with its complete event history

Company Details

Company profiles include all insolvency proceedings linked to the company

Monitoring

Receive webhook notifications when new insolvency events are published for companies you watch
See the filtering guide for the full list of insolvency search filters.

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Update Frequency

  • Source: neu.insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de (official publication portal of the German insolvency courts)
  • New announcements: Imported daily across all publication categories

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Proceeding Lifecycle & Classifications

Every case starts with an insolvency application (Antrag), filed by the debtor itself or by a creditor. From there:
  • Preliminary phase - Before deciding on the application, the court may order security measures such as appointing a preliminary administrator (vorläufiger Insolvenzverwalter)
  • Opening - The proceeding is opened if the estate at least covers the costs of the proceeding
  • Rejection - Otherwise the application is rejected for insufficiency of assets (Abweisung mangels Masse, § 26 InsO); a large share of corporate applications end here
  • Closure - An opened proceeding normally ends with its lifting (Aufhebung) after the final distribution, or earlier by discontinuation (Einstellung)
  • Insolvency plan - Alternatively a confirmed insolvency plan (Insolvenzplan) lets the company survive restructured, often under court-ordered plan supervision
  • Administration kind - external_administration (a court-appointed Insolvenzverwalter takes over the estate), self_administration (Eigenverwaltung, § 270 InsO), or protective_shield (Schutzschirmverfahren, § 270d InsO)
  • Insolvency grounds - illiquidity (Zahlungsunfähigkeit, § 17 InsO), imminent_illiquidity (drohende Zahlungsunfähigkeit, § 18 InsO), or over_indebtedness (Überschuldung, § 19 InsO)