Jens Michaelis - Notar | Rechtsanwalt

Authentification of a signature

Authentification of photocopies

If you have to sign a document (e.g. a declaration of approval) in front of a notary (authentification of your signature), please make an appointment with us directly by telephone. Please bring the document to be signed and your valid identity card or passport with you to this appointment.

The costs for a signature certification depend on the concrete business value of the declaration to be signed. The legal fee range is - with an English certification note - between € 30,94 and € 108,29 for a signature certification - depending on the value of the issue that the document is about. As a rule, you will also be invoiced at the same time as the appointment. Please pay in cash at the appointment.

If the certified document is to be sent by us to a third party additional fees will be charged.

Please note: On Thursday, 24.04.2025 it will NOT be possible to submit documents for the production of certified photocopies.

If you require certified photocopies of documents, you can hand in the relevant original here in the office from Monday to Thursday between 10:00 and 10:45 a.m. only, without making an appointment in advance. If you are unable to bring the documents in person at these times, you can also give them to another person. Please enclose a note with your telephone number and indicate whether - if you wish to have several documents notarized - you wish to have them sent to the same recipient at a later date (so that they can be bound) or whether you require the notarized photocopies separately. We make the copies ourselves from the original, so you do not need to make copies yourself.

As a rule, you can pick up the documents on the next working day or the day after Monday to Thursday at the same time (between 10:00 and 10:45 a.m. without prior appointment) together with the certified copies against payment of the invoice amount in cash.

It is not possible to hand in or collect documents on Fridays.

Please note: Notarizations can only be issued from (handwritten) signed original documents or certified documents, not from printed pdf documents and the like!

The language in which the document is written is irrelevant, since only the visual conformity of the copy with the original is notarized. The notary does not make translations.

Costs per document: 11,90 € (up to 10 pages), with foreign language certification note: 15,47 €. 

On the A 100 take exit 20-Tempfelhofer Damm, then head north on the B96 (Tempelhofer Damm/Mehringdamm) until you reach Mehringdamm (on the left approx. 100 m before the Mehringdamm/Gneisenaustr. intersection).

Take the subway to U-Bhf Mehringdamm (U6/U7), then walk south on Mehringdamm to Mehringdamm 50 (approx. 300 m).

Alternatively, you can reach us by bus M19 (station U-Mehringdamm) or by bus 140 (station Yorckstr./Großbeerenstr.).

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Mehringdamm 50 | 10961 Berlin

Tel.: 030 68 83 65 89 | Fax.: 030 7889 7245

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