Overview
- Preliminary Destatis figures show requested regular insolvencies rose 6.5% year over year in October, with results reflecting a roughly three‑month lag and classified as experimental.
- Courts recorded 1,979 corporate insolvency filings in August, a 12.2% increase from a year earlier based on final data.
- Creditor claims tied to August company insolvencies reached about €5.4 billion, more than double the roughly €2.3 billion reported in August 2024.
- Insolvency frequency was highest in transport and storage, followed by construction and hospitality, while consumer cases rose 8.1% in August to 6,132.
- DIHK describes the outlook as sobering and presses for measures such as an electricity tax cut, with forecasts signaling well over 22,000 cases this year and about 24,500 next year, even as new company registrations rose 9.5% to roughly 99,300 in the first three quarters.