Funeral services and mortuary passport
One task of the public health department is the infection hygiene monitoring of measures in the funeral and cemetery sector. This is regulated by law in the Lower Saxony Funeral Act.
The main tasks are therefore
- Determination of minimum rest periods for graves
- Granting exceptions to the coffin obligation
- Granting exceptions to the storage period for corpses
- Authorizing the reburial of bodies and urns
When transporting corpses across the border of the Federal Republic of Germany, legal regulations, including those of the destination countries and any transit countries, must be observed. As a matter of principle, repatriations abroad are only possible with an international corpse passport.
The application for a corpse passport must be submitted to the Wolfsburg Health Department if this is the place of death/funeral. The funeral home commissioned with the transportation can also apply for a corpse passport.Various documents are required for the issue of the corpse passport. These are
- written informal application for the transfer of a body (personal details, means of transport, transport route from to via)
- if the application is made by a funeral home: Power of attorney
- Certificate or declaration of proper coffining by the mortician
- Death certificate
- for non-natural causes of death: Certificate of release from the public prosecutor's office
The fee for issuing a corpse passport is 40.00 euros (Ordinance on Fees and Expenses for Official Acts and Services - AllGO).
The application for, issue and collection of a corpse passport can be carried out during service hours Monday to Friday (with the exception of public holidays) from 08:30 to 12:00.