Things To Do Before You Leave Mannheim

As soon as you have been disenrolled from your program, you are no longer a student of the University of Mannheim. Please submit your disenrollment request online in Portal² > My services> Requests > Disenrollment and take note of the information on how to submit a request published there.

If you need a confirmation of disenrollment, please send an e-mail bearing the subject “Confirmation of disenrollment” and indicating your student ID number to the Express-Service. You can only de-register once you have returned all media and do not owe the library any fees.

Please note: After you have disenrolled, you will still have access to Portal² for 365 days and to your university e-mail address for 75 days.

When should I disenroll?

You have to de-register as a resident of the respective town or city where you lived in Germany. Most students have found housing in Mannheim and thus have to de-register at the residents’ registration office of the city of Mannheim, which is located in K7. You do not need an appointment for de-registration. You can de-register in person or via e-mail. For electronic de-registration, please send an e-mail to and attach the following documents:

• a scan of your passport,
• the complete form for de-registration (PDF) from the residents’ registration office in Mannheim, signed. You can find an English explanation of the form in the download section below.

If you are member of a German health insurance, please ask the residents’ registration office for a confirmation of your de-registration. This confirmation has to be submitted to your German health insurance provider in order to terminate the membership.

Please use your actual move-out date as the date of de-registration with the city. You can also de-register in advance by specifying a move-out date in the future.

If you are member of a German health insurance, please send the following documents to your health insurance provider in order to terminate your membership:

• your confirmation of disenrollment from the University of Mannheim,
• your confirmation of de-registration of residency by the residents’ registration office (see above).

If you had to open up a blocked account in order to obtain your visa or German residence permit, you can have this account closed at the foreigners’ office. In order to close the blocked account you have to obtain the consent of the competent foreigners’ office (in Mannheim in K7).

Students who did not open a blocked account do not need to de-register at the foreigners’ office. The residents’ registration office will inform the foreigner’s office of their de-registration.

Before you leave Mannheim, make sure to not only de-register with the Bürgeramt, but also with the Beitragsservice, the institution responsible for collecting the public broadcasting license fee (Rundfunkbeitrag). You can easily de-register with the Beitragsservice by using the online form. Below, you will find instructions on filling out the form.

In order to prove that you are leaving Germany, you can simply upload a scan of the confirmation of your de-registration with the Bürgeramt.

After de-registration with the Beitragsservice you will receive a confirmation via mail.

If you have opened an account with a bank in Germany, you should consider closing it before leaving. Please consider whether you expect further incoming payments after your departure, for which the account should remain open for a while, e.g. for the last salary or the final utilities statement of your apartment. 

Please make an appointment with your bank while you are still in Germany. In a personal consultation with your bank advisor, you should clarify how you can close the account, at what time the closure will become valid and how the remaining money on account can be transferred to another account without incurring high additional costs

Consider whether you have any other contracts that you may wish to cancel. Usually, this can concern:

• Bahncard (BC) from Deutsche Bahn
• Insurance agreements (private liability insurance, home contents insurance etc.)
• Cell phone contracts
• Fixed-line and Internet contracts
• Electricity and gas supply contracts
• Job Ticket
• Child care / school
• Sports clubs
• Newspaper subscriptions
• Automobile insurance

To ensure that your degree certificate can be sent to you, please make sure to provide the Student Office with your current contact address.

If you are an international graduate of the University of Mannheim and are interested in keeping in contact with other former or current international students, get in touch with us! Fill out our contact form and join our LinkedIn-Group.

As part of the project Made in Mannheim – FIT for Career the International Office is regularly hosting AlumniNights. At these events, successful international graduates talk about how they started their career in Germany and share their experiences with currently enrolled international students. Afterwards, an informal get-together gives all participants the opportunity to network and offer or ask advice personally. Please see the current Made in Mannheim – FIT for Career semester program for more information.

Tell us where your career path has taken you. We are always looking for success stories to be told at our alumni events. We also generally enjoy hearing from you!