Comment by 7373737373

Ditto and fully agreed with the post and the other commenters re. the insane complexity and costs of founding an UG. It took me over two months to have such a company established, and the number of institutions you have to interact with is rage inducing and mindnumbing. I'm afraid to even move to another place because apart from all the institutions I'll have to notify individually for me as a natural person, there are now a handful more for the company. And it's not just the notification, I'd have to unregister and reregister the thing, especially if moving to another city. And each of these actions costs time, and money and disgusting amounts of paper. For the same reasons, I'd avoid hiring any employees.

"Digitalstaat" my ass. It's IMPOSSIBLE to found even this simplest of limited liability companies without dozens of forms. The politicians ARE really talking out of their ass.

Expect the founding of an UG to cost not only two months, but 1500€ in the first year, and 1000€ each following year. Oh, and your nerves, because at some point in the process will the bureaucratic machine fuck up and/or delay.

The same goes for the scammers, which the German "Rechtsstaat", as it likes to call itself appears to be completely helpless against for decades.

My advice, if you've never founded an UG/GmbH before, don't do it alone. Find a cofounder who can care about all this bullshit so you can focus on the actual product and business. (Or don't found in Germany at all)