You can apply for the registration of your vehicle trailer at the vehicle registration office. You can register online. A BundID (central account for identification for all online applications) is required. Motor vehicle trailers can be registered to private individuals and legal entities or companies as vehicle owners, i.e. also to:
- Companies,
- authorities or
- associations
Vehicle trailers are exempt from the registration requirement if they
- are not used for journeys over 25 km/h and either
- for agricultural or forestry purposes behind tractors or self-propelled machinery,
- in the form of caravans and trailers in the fairground industry or
- are used as mobile construction huts
are also exempt from registration without a speed limit:
- Working machines
- Special trailers for transporting sports equipment, animals for sporting purposes or lifeboats
- Fire department and civil protection trailers
- Single-axle trailers behind motorcycles, mopeds and motorized medical chairs and seat carts that are carried behind single-axle agricultural or forestry tractors or work machines.
Note: For a vehicle trailer that has already been registered, if it has not been taken out of service completely in the meantime, you only need to submit an application for re-registration in the event of a change of owner.
Online service
Notes for your online application
Prerequisites
Procedure
Required documents
Vehicle registration and driver's license office
Address & contact information
Opening hours
How to find us
Service hotline
You have questions? Call us: from any network, without an area code. Authorities number 115: Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. You can usually reach the authorities number 115 at fixed network tariffs and thus free of charge via flat rates. Sign language telephone: Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.