If a telephone number is used illegally, the Federal Network Agency can intervene and take appropriate measures.

A number may be misused if

• you are put on hold under a chargeable number and your request is not processed.
• a company only provides a high-priced number as a telephone contact for contractual questions
• you receive a recorded message on the telephone which is intended to entice you to call back, e.g. by informing you of an alleged prize.
• you are confronted with annoying calling behaviour, e.g. advertising calls on Sundays and public holidays
• Confusing, missing or incorrect price information about the connection costs when dialling an expensive number (e.g. (0)900 numbers, (0)180 numbers).
• At the beginning of a telephone call after dialing expensive numbers or after dialing call-by-call numbers, no or an incorrect price announcement is given.
• No price announcement for the connection costs of the transferred call is announced when the call is transferred by a directory enquiries service.
• In the case of a call to a (0)900 number, there is no forced disconnection of the connection on the network side after one hour.
• in postal advertising letters, the addressee is misled to a considerable extent with the purpose of submitting a reply under the specified call number
• you receive unsolicited advertising SMS or other electronic advertising messages via Messenger (for example via Facebook, Whatsapp, SIMSme, Threema or Line).
• You receive e-mail spam in which telephone numbers are advertised (unsolicited advertising e-mails).
• You receive fax spam, i.e. unsolicited promotional faxes.
• you receive ping calls, i.e. calls where the phone has only rung briefly for the purpose of provoking a callback
• a mobile phone or Internet dialer automatically connects you to expensive numbers from your connection
• your internet router or telephone system has been hacked by a third party and as a result connections with costs are generated or
• you are billed for inexplicable items such as subscription services on your telephone bill.

Proven illegal use of the telephone number can be punished, depending on the extent of the violation, by:

• reprimand or warning,
• ordering the disconnection of telephone numbers,
• Billing and collection bans,
• porting bans,
• business model prohibition or
• Switching bans.

In order to combat number misuse, you should provide the Federal Network Agency with as detailed information as possible on the facts of the number misuse. Existing documents such as itemised bills or screenshots of websites visited should be enclosed.

Withdrawal from a church, religious community or ideological community must be declared to the competent authority.

Upon request, you will receive information about your personal data stored in the population register.

The information includes:

• the personal data stored in the population register,
• the recipients of regular data transmissions, as well as
• the purposes and legal bases
  • storage and
  • regular data transmissions.

If the data is transmitted by an automated retrieval procedure or an automated simple population register information, you can request information about

• the types of data transmitted
• as well as their recipients.

Parties, voter groups and other candidates may obtain the following information on persons entitled to vote from the population register in the 6 months prior to an election in connection with parliamentary and municipal elections:

• first and last names,
• Doctorate
• current address.

If the requested person has died, this will be communicated.

If a legitimate interest in the provision of information is credibly demonstrated, the competent authority may provide extended information from the population register, which also contains the following data:

• First and last names
• Doctorate
• Addresses
• Day and place of birth
• Former first and last names
• Marital status (limited to whether or not married or in a civil partnership)
• Nationalities
• Previous addresses
• Day of moving in and out
• legal representatives
• Date and place of death
• First and last names and address of the spouse or partner

Information from the population register gives you the opportunity to find the person you are looking for. There are the following types of information from the population register:

• Simple population register information
• Extended population register information
• Information on the population register of parties and voter groups
• Information in the population register vis-à-vis landlords
• Self-disclosure
• Group information

As part of a simple population register information, you will receive from the competent authority

• Surname
• Forenames
• Doctoral degree and
• Current addresses

to the person you are looking for. If the person is deceased, you will be informed.

Whether the competent authority provides you with information about the data of the person sought is at their dutiful discretion. The simple information from the population register is not provided if an information block is entered in the population register or if the competent authority has reason to believe that this may result in a danger to the interests of the person concerned or another person worthy of protection.

After the death of the testator, the probate court must formally open ex officio all (including revoked or ineffective) dispositions of death (wills and inheritance contracts).

You would like to leave the Protestant or Catholic Church.