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The current extract shows only today's state. The chronological printout (CD) shows the whole story: every entry since the sheet went electronic, in time order, with superseded entries still legible and marked as such.
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German companies change through register entries: appointments and removals of directors, capital increases, seat transfers, renamings, mergers. The chronological printout preserves this sequence exactly as the court recorded it, which makes it the document of choice when you must prove a historical fact about the company rather than its present state.
Deleted entries remain visible and are marked as removed — so the printout doubles as evidence of both what changed and when.
Litigators establishing which director was in office on a given date; acquirers auditing a target's capital measures; insolvency practitioners scoping claw-back periods; researchers and journalists tracing corporate history. For all of them, the CD turns the register from a snapshot into a timeline.
It is available for any German company as a checkout add-on and arrives by email, fetched live from the register, usually within minutes.
The current printout omits everything that no longer applies. The chronological printout keeps it all: former directors, previous company names, old capital figures — each entry numbered and dated, so you can reconstruct the register state at any past date.
Whenever a past state matters: litigation against former managing directors, M&A due diligence on capital history, verifying who was authorised to sign on the date a contract was concluded, or tracing a renamed company.
To the conversion of the register sheet to electronic keeping — generally around 2007. Entries from the earlier paper era live in a separate document, the historical printout (HD).
As an add-on during a normal order: search the German company, then tick the chronological printout at checkout. It is delivered together with the current extract by email.
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