Insolvency statistics
More company slides – fewer cases than in 2024
The stimulus that forces more companies to give up. After all, there are so far less large bankruptcies. As experts assess the situation.
The number of company bankruptcies in Germany continues to increase in double digits. 11.6 percent more new bankruptcies than a year earlier counted the district courts in August, as the Federal Statistical Office reports on the basis of preliminary information. After all, the increase weakened: In July, the Wiesbaden statisticians had recorded the strongest increase since October with 19.2 percent.
It is still open whether all cases are brought to the official statistics. According to the Federal Office, the time of the bankruptcy application is often approximately three months before.
More bankruptcies in the first half of the year
For the first half of 2025, the local courts reported 12,009 corporate insolvencies for final results. That was 12.2 percent more than a year earlier. Because there were fewer companies, the creditors’ claims were around 28.2 billion euros more than four billion euros less than in the first half of 2024.
Temporary relaxation?
The Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH), which analyzes the development of bankruptcies monthly, sees temporary relaxation: After very high values in July, the number of bankruptcies has dropped significantly in August. 1,409 bankruptcies of passenger and corporations were therefore eleven percent less than in July of the current year.
However, the numbers are still higher than that of August 2024 and 51 percent higher than in an average of August before Corona pandemic. For autumn, the IWH again expects an increase in bankruptcies, whose effects on the labor market should be “moderate”.
Except of the number of bankruptcies in the year as a whole
Various credit agencies expect more company bankruptcies than in 2024. Last year, according to official figures, a maximum of 21,812 cases had been registered with a maximum of 2015. The increase was expected after state support from Corona pandemic had expired. In addition, high energy prices, bureaucracy and political uncertainty burden companies.
dpa
Source: Stern
