German death certificates

[AntonP]

Are there any government sources to follow up to find a death certificate?
I only have name, DOB and Place of birth Saxony.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Anton

[fiddlerslass]

What year is the death?

[fiddlerslass]

If it is recent you will need to know the place and apply to the registry. I think you may also have to be a close relative.

Germany has no central repository for civil records. Death certificates can be obtained from the local civil registration office (Standesamt) at the place were the person died.

[AntonP]

Fiddlerslass, thank you.
DOB 1919 but I have no idea when the person may have died, plus he is a distant cousin.
I suspect, if living a 'normal life' for the time he lived in, he might have died sometime 1985 to say 1995. it's my guess he might have died in Schleswig- Holstein or maybe Saxony, but just a guess based on where he was born and later worked prior to WW2.

[fiddlerslass]

That's a wide area to cover, if you mean Saxony in the south east as opposed to Lower Saxony or Saxony - Anhalt. I've got ancestry from Saxony( Sachsen)and there's not much online yet.

Have you tried directories or telephone books? Did he have a common or more unusual surname or occupation? Have you had a look for a gravestone on the usual sites eg billiongraves or anything on Gedbas? You can search the entire database here (meta search)

https://meta.genealogy.net/?lang=en

I recently had an aunt died in Germany, and the funeral director sent me a copy of a death certificate but it just had date and place of death, nothing about parents or cause of death. I do not know if this was just some sort of short form certificate though.

[AntonP]

Fidlerslass
I have tried numerous sites to no avail so far, including some of those you suggest. Will try the others.
The person I am researching was born in Meerane, near Crimitschau. I have contacted local town offices and the state offices to no avail, other than getting confirmatioh of his mother's death in Meerane.
Thanks your suggestions
Anton