Transparenzregister is the German register of beneficial owners, established by the Money Laundering Act. Entities subject to the Act report the natural persons who ultimately own or control them, and the register records those persons rather than the entities themselves.
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Identity verification required Inspection requires registration on the portal and is fee-bearing. The application is client-rendered and the inspection flow itself was not exercised, so the precise identity checks applied are not asserted.
Official name
Transparenzregister
English title
Editorial translation
Assessment
Strengths
It records the natural persons behind an entity, which no other German register sets out to do.
Keeping the register is a sovereign federal task under the Money Laundering Act, so its basis is statutory rather than contractual.
It covers entities across legal forms rather than companies alone.
Limitations
Inspection is not free and requires registration on the portal, so it is not comparable to the open company registers.
It records reported beneficial owners. A report is made by the entity, so the register reflects what was declared rather than what was independently established.
It does not establish that an entity exists or who legally represents it. That is the commercial register kept by the courts, reached through the register portal.
The application is client-rendered and the inspection flow was not exercised, so the exact identity checks applied to a searcher are not stated here.
Submission guidance
Records are created through incorporation, registration, filing, or statutory processes.
Submission difficulty
Unknown
Typical listing quality
Unknown
Typical approval time
Unknown
Review process
Unknown
Best for
Establishing who ultimately owns or controls a German entity, where the ownership chain is not visible in the commercial register.
Anti-money-laundering due diligence that requires the beneficial owner rather than the registered shareholder.
Not recommended for
A quick free lookup, because inspection requires registration and carries a fee.
Confirming that a company exists, which is the commercial register kept by the courts.
Preparation checklist
No checklist recorded yet.
Common mistakes
No common mistakes recorded yet.
Establishing required submission assets requires submitting a listing and observing the result. That has not been done for any directory in this dataset, so it is not published rather than estimated.
What this directory accepts
Startups
Yes
SaaS products
Unknown
Enterprises
Yes
Agencies
Unknown
Freelancers
Unknown
Local businesses
Unknown
Developer tools
Unknown
Open-source projects
Unknown
Non-profits
Yes
AI products
Unknown
Mobile apps
Unknown
Ecommerce stores
Unknown
Recommended industries
German entities subject to beneficial-ownership reporting
How the PetroHrys Score was reached
Editorial trust 15%
10 / 10How far the entries a directory publishes can be relied on as accurate.
Business usefulness 15%
7 / 10How much practical use a listing there is to the business being listed.
Verification quality 12%
9 / 10How thoroughly the directory establishes that an entry is genuine before publishing it.
Platform reputation 10%
8 / 10How the platform is regarded in its field. Deliberately not a popularity, traffic or recognition measure.
Spam resistance 10%
10 / 10How well the directory keeps low-quality and promotional entries out.
Industry importance 10%
9 / 10How central the directory is to its sector, independently of how useful one listing is.
Long-term stability 10%
9 / 10How likely the directory is to still exist, and to still carry the entry, years from now.
Submission quality 8%
5 / 10What the submission process asks for and how workable it is for the business submitting.
Transparency 5%
7 / 10How openly the directory states its rules, costs and criteria.
Moderation quality 5%
8 / 10How the directory maintains entries after publication.
The PetroHrys Score is a first-party editorial assessment, not a third-party
authority metric. It is the weighted sum of the ten factors above, divided by ten, so the number
on this page is reproducible from the values shown. Each factor is scored from 0 to 10 by a human reviewer and weighted as shown. The definitions describe what was weighed, not a rubric: no threshold or formula maps a directory onto a value, and two reviewers could reach different numbers. The score is reproducible from the factors shown on every record, but it is an editorial judgement, not a measurement.