Bereavement - first steps - services

Important documents that we need:

• Identity card of the deceased
• Health insurance card (chip card)
• Birth certificate
• Family register or marriage certificate
• in the case of widows or widowers, the death certificate of the spouse or the declaration of death with legal force
• in the case of divorced marriages, the divorce decree with legal force

We will take care of the following formalities for you:

This concerns, for example

• for pensioners, the pension notices (old-age pension, widow's pension, war victim's or survivor's pension, disability pension)
• Bank details for advance payments from the pension office

if available:

• Pension certificate
• Notice of housing benefit
• Unemployment benefit (notice)
• Notice of allowance for the blind
• Association of war and military service victims (membership card)
• German Red Cross (membership card)
• Severely disabled person's pass and supplementary sheet with tokens
• Broadcasting fee subscriber number (GEZ)
• Cable television customer number (Tele Columbus)
• Subscription number of the daily newspaper with address of the publisher
• Association of displaced persons (membership card)

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Services at a glance

We offer various funeral options: both simple and elaborate funerals - in every denomination, but also repatriations at home and abroad. We organize funeral services as well as the deceased's de-registration with the authorities and even household liquidations.

As the bereaved, you determine the scope of services according to your wishes.

In detail

• Repatriations at home and abroad
• Organization of cremations, burials and burials at sea
• Arrangement of appointments and organization of funeral services with coffin or urn (home visits also possible by arrangement)
• comprehensive organization of urn burials outside the city (grave digging, musical accompaniment at the grave, loan of decorations and condolence list, burial of the urn)
• Arrangement of secular eulogists and pastors
• Support with the musical accompaniment of the funeral service (organ and CD)
• Ordering flowers and wreaths and providing them at the respective ceremony site
• Recording/publication of obituaries/thanks in the daily press
• Creation/procurement of funeral and thank-you cards
• Photographic work
• Deregistration with authorities (e.g. health insurance company, pension accounting office, pension office, etc.)
• Applying for advance payment from the relevant pension payment offices for the surviving spouse
• Household liquidations and clearing out