Insolvency statistics · Germany
Corporate insolvencies — time series & breakdowns
All charts draw on our own dataset: § 9 InsO announcements from every German insolvency court, enriched with commercial-register and Federal-Gazette data. Refreshed daily.
Coverage: Germany. Full methodology and sources: Data Notes
New, last 7 days
291
New, last 30 days
1,537
Last 12 months
5,495
All time
5,495
How to cite: Übernahme-Radar insolvency barometer, uebernahmeradar.de/statistiken, as of 2026-10-25.
Corporate insolvencies per month
New corporate insolvencies per month: each company once, in the month of its first § 9 notice. Coverage starts 2026-06.
German states — comparison
Corporate insolvencies, last 12 months.
| # | State | Cases | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Nordrhein-Westfalen | 1,294 | 23.5% |
| 02 | Bayern | 761 | 13.8% |
| 03 | Baden-Württemberg | 588 | 10.7% |
| 04 | Hessen | 509 | 9.3% |
| 05 | Berlin | 477 | 8.7% |
| 06 | Niedersachsen | 475 | 8.6% |
| 07 | Hamburg | 242 | 4.4% |
| 08 | Schleswig-Holstein | 236 | 4.3% |
| 09 | Rheinland-Pfalz | 214 | 3.9% |
| 10 | Sachsen | 198 | 3.6% |
| 11 | Brandenburg | 133 | 2.4% |
| 12 | Sachsen-Anhalt | 97 | 1.8% |
| 13 | Thüringen | 85 | 1.5% |
| 14 | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 82 | 1.5% |
| 15 | Bremen | 55 | 1.0% |
| 16 | Saarland | 49 | 0.9% |
Sectors — comparison
Corporate insolvencies, last 12 months, by AI-inferred sector.
| # | Industry | Cases |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Construction & trades | 783 |
| 02 | Manufacturing | 573 |
| 03 | Other | 557 |
| 04 | Hospitality & food | 355 |
| 05 | B2B services | 343 |
| 06 | Real estate | 310 |
| 07 | Professional services | 298 |
| 08 | Logistics & transport | 264 |
| 09 | Financial services & holdings | 262 |
| 10 | Healthcare & medical | 220 |
| 11 | Software & SaaS | 198 |
| 12 | Wholesale | 197 |
| 13 | Automotive | 155 |
| 14 | E-commerce | 154 |
| 15 | Retail (offline) | 140 |
| 16 | Brand / consumer goods | 38 |
| 17 | event_planning | 1 |
| 18 | energy | 1 |
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