Flag document und flag attestation:
Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie
Sachgebiet S 11
Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 78
20359 Hamburg
Anette Claudia Scholz
Phone: +49 40 31 90-7112
Fax: +49 40 31 90-5003
Mail: flaggenrecht@bsh.de
Jasmin Lohse
Phone: +49 40 31 90-7113
Fax: +49 40 31 90-5003
Mail: flaggenrecht@bsh.de
Flag certificates
Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie
Sachgebiet S 11
Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 78
20359 Hamburg
Krister Näsström-Kurek auch Kurka
Phone: +49 40 31 90 71 14
Fax: +49 40 31 90 5003
Mail: flaggenzertifikate@bsh.de
Flag documents
The BSH administrates the German Flag Register and provides the shipping industry with documents of evidence of the authorization to carry the Federal Flag. All sea-going vessels receiving such a document are recorded in the Flag Register.
The authorization to fly the Federal Flag can be proven with one of the following documents:
- Flag Document
Yard trials or conveyance voyages to another port (in accordance with FlRG– Flaggenrechtsgesetz, section 10): application form
as well as for temporarily flagged-in foreign ships (in accordance with FlRG, section 11): application form - Flag Attestation
Ships operated by the government (upon free-text application);
exception: Flag Attestations for sea-going ships of the Federal Armed Forces are issued by the Federal Ministry of Defense - Flag Certificate
Is available for sea-going vessels of up to 15 m hull length (recreational craft); read more about the Flag Certificate - Certificate of Registry
not issued by BSH but by the shipping registers of sea-going ships: for merchant ships and any other sea-going ships