Less bankruptcies
Waves in Germany goes back slightly
The first decline in bankruptcy registrations in more than two years has hope that company bankruptcies in Germany will become fewer.
Further relaxation indicates the company bankruptcies in Germany. For the first time since March 2023, there were less registered insolvency proceedings in a month than a year earlier, as the Federal Statistical Office announced on May on the basis of preliminary data. In May 2025, the Wiesbaden statisticians counted 0.7 percent less requested regular inlocks than a year earlier. In the two months before, the growth rate had already been in the single -digit range.
It is still open whether all cases are actually brought to the official statistics. According to the Federal Office, the actual time of the bankruptcy application is often approximately three months before.
Decline in bankruptcy
A declining trend in the company bankruptcies was also shown in the recent monthly analysis of the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Hall (IWH): After the highest value had been reached for 20 years in April, the number of bankruptcies of personal and corporations in Germany decreased significantly. According to the IWH numbers, 1,478 bankruptcies were 9 percent less than in the previous month, but 17 percent more than in May 2024.
“The early indicators can also expect slightly falling bankruptcy figures for June,” predicts the head of IWH bankruptcy research, Steffen Müller. “Nevertheless, we will experience more company bankruptcies in Germany for the foreseeable future than last year.”
Approach expected in the year as a whole
Various credit agencies expect more company bankruptcies than 2024 for the year as a whole. According to official figures last year, a maximum of 21,812 cases had been registered since 2015. The increase was expected after state support from Corona pandemic had expired. In addition, high energy prices, a lot of bureaucracy and political uncertainty burden companies.
For the first quarter of 2025, the local courts reported 5,891 corporate insolvencies requested after final results and thus 13.1 percent more than a year earlier, as the Federal Statistical Office announced. The claims of the creditors add up to around 19.9 billion euros after 11.3 billion euros in the first quarter of 2024.
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Source: Stern
