Austria Civil Registration

Civil Registration (Zivilstandsregister)
Civil registration is births, marriages, marriage supplements, deaths, family registers kept by the government.

Time Coverage

 * Births and deaths began throughout on 1 January 1939. Civil registration of marriages started on 1 August 1938; however, marriages celebrated between 1 August 1938 and 31 December 1938 were conducted at regional district offices (Bezirkshauptmannschaften).
 * Civil registration began in Hungary in 1895 and those parts of the modern federal province of Burgenland which were then part of Hungary will have civil registration records.

Births

 * Name of child
 * Date and place of birth;
 * Names, residence, and occupation of parents.

Marriages

 * Names
 * Ages
 * Residences
 * Occupations of groom and bride;
 * Sometimes date and place of birth and/or ages,
 * Parents' names,
 * Date and place of marriage,
 * Residences, occupations, names of witnesses and officer who performed ceremony.

Marriage Supplements

 * Names of marriage partners,
 * Documents showing proofs of births, deaths, prior marriages or divorces, proclamations, contracts, etc.

Death Registers

 * Name,
 * Date and place of death
 * Occupation,
 * Name of surviving spouse,
 * Name and residence of informant,
 * Cause of death,
 * Sometimes date and place of birth, names of parents, names of children.

Accessing the Records
To obtain a certificate, you need to contact the registry office which registered the event. For Vienna only Municipal Department 35 provides the relevant service. To find an address for a local registry use the Austrian Government Help Portal.