Press 1st quarter of 2021: business insolvencies down 19.7% year on year

Number of normal insolvency proceedings opened in May 2021 down 7% on the previous month, according to provisional figures

Press release No. 270 of 10 June 2021

WIESBADEN – German local courts reported 3,762 business insolvency requests in the first quarter of 2021. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was a decline of 19.7% compared with the first quarter of 2020. This means that the economic problems of many businesses due to the coronavirus crisis were not yet reflected by an increase in reported business insolvencies.

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Basic data and long time series are available in tables Insolvencies (52411) in the GENESIS-Online database.

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