Germany has no Companies House Unlike the UK's free official API, German company data is fragmented across regional courts and published through the Handelsregister and Unternehmensregister — built for humans, not machines. Developers face session-bound forms, strict rate limits, and messy HTML instead of structured data. The 2024 eGbR update that broke legacy pipelines In early 2024 Germany introduced the eingetragene Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts (eGbR) and its register (GsR). Many older sc