Germany Makes Online Address Registration a National Standard
Hamburg – November 04, 2026 -- Residents anywhere in Germany will soon be able to register or change their address online at wohnsitzanmeldung.gov.de, without a trip to the registration office. The Federal Cabinet has adopted the IT Components Ordinance (IT-Komponentenverordnung), which requires all registration authorities to offer the electronic address registration service developed in Hamburg.
The service already reaches 74.2 million people
The electronic address registration (eWA) is already connected to more than 3,800 registration authorities and is available to 74.2 million people. It handles both new registrations and changes of address digitally. Hamburg's Senate Chancellery developed it together with what was then the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community, following the "one for all" principle, under which one authority builds a service that others reuse.