Citizens of Chemnitz who do not want the Citizens' Office of the City of Chemnitz to pass on personal data to organisations, parties or religious communities can object to this. The Citizens' Office of the City of Chemnitz would like to point this out. The data will not be transferred if the person concerned 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 at www.chemnitz.de/widerspruch-datenweitergabe. Objections can be sent by post to Stadt Chemnitz, Bürgeramt, Meldebehörde, 09106 Chemnitz (headquarters: Düsseldorfer Platz 1) or submitted to any citizen service centre of the City of Chemnitz.
The following data transfers are regulated by law:
According to § 42 of the Federal Registration Act, the registration authority may transfer data to religious organisations under public law. 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 their first and last names, date and place of birth, gender, affiliation to a religious organisation under public law, 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 current office hours of the registration office (Düsseldorfer Platz 1) are as follows: Monday and Friday 8am to 12pm, Tuesday and Thursday 8am to 6pm and Saturday 9am to 1pm (by appointment only).
The office hours of the citizen service centres and further information can also be obtained by calling the public authority number 115. See also www.chemnitz.de/buergerservice