Registration craft role

If you want to be self-employed, you must register with the Chamber of Crafts. The Chamber member directory includes three areas with different requirements for registration:

• The list of crafts to be subject to authorisation ("Craft Role"): Appendix A of the Craft Code (HwO)
• The directory of open trades: Unit B1 of the HwO
• The directory of craft-like commercial: Annex B2 of HwO

• You have a master craftsman or Have acquired an equivalent qualification abroad.
• Other tests are recognized when they are "equivalent" (z. B. final exams at a German University, a nationally recognized technical school or diploma of another EU Member State).
• Experienced apprentices who have a six-year professional experience in their craft, of which four years in a managerial position, can submit an application for exercise entitlement according to § 7 (b) HwO and then, with the exercise authorization granted, they also make themselves with their own company in a trade subject to authorisation (exempt from this regulation are chimney sweeps, opticians, hearing care professionals, Orthopedic technicians, orthopedic Shoemaker and dental technicians).
• In addition, the legislature over the granting of a derogation request has created the possibility of self-employed persons exercising a craft professional of the plant A. Z received a derogation request. B. Persons for whom the placing of the master's examination would constitute an undue burden and which can prove the knowledge and skills necessary for the self-employed exercise.
• A craft company in a trade that is subject to authorisation may be established or taken over even if the owner of the holding does not have a qualification, but has hired a manager with the required qualification.

• Copy of the identity card or a comparable identification document
• completed and signed application for registration
• entry in the Appendix A of the trade and crafts code: qualification (master craftsman / EU certificate)
• When hiring a professional Manager: Manager statement and employment contract
• If necessary. Excerpt from commercial register of the District Court (for legal entities or partnerships)
• If necessary. Social contract, if for the artisanal line one of the general partner or a hired professional managers fulfills one of the requirements for registration.

Own applications are in the Chambers for the application for registration. Gladly we find out the correct form for you to. The plant manager Declaration can be found below ("information downloads").