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| I too would be interested in whether settled ones fall off after a certain time.
While I am here, I'll mention that if you are moving home and putting all your stuff into short term storage, you should keep your paperwork accessible. I found this out the hard way and ended up paying a disputed bill just to get the court off my back. | |
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Well it depends what you mean. As I said before they are NEVER deleted. They remain a permanent historic record, whether they are successful or not. There I mean whether they should have been processed in the first place.
However, after 5 years they are cleared from the register for normal persons. this means when you request information nothing appears against your name. Certain authorities always have access to the full register though.
Note: if you have a Betreibung against your name then the details of the event are written into the register. If you pay or even don't pay this is put in and is available for all to see.
If however:
a. A court judgement is made against the entry or the Betreibung is declared invalid.
b. After the event the debtor can show that the judgement was wrong.
c. The creditor retracts the Betreibung.
Then the number, your name and a blank entry is returned. This basically informs the "statement" requester that a Betreibung against you was falsely placed and should be ignored. Imagine though you had 10 of them. What do you think the requester would think....