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Request your free Schufa self-disclosure

You have the right to one free Schufa data copy per year under Art. 15 GDPR. This tool generates the letter in seconds. No PDF account, no tracking, no data ever leaves your browser.

Your personal details

Your current German address

Previous addresses (last five years)

Helps SCHUFA match records across moves.

ID document

What the free Schufa data copy is

Everyone with a German address builds a Schufa file from their first contract onward. Article 15 GDPR gives you the right to see that file once per calendar year at no cost. Schufa calls the document the Datenkopie.

It lists your score, every account Schufa records under your name, and every company that checked you in the past twelve months. Most people find at least one detail worth questioning the first time they read it.

Read the full Schufa guide

Who should request one

You just registered in Germany

Ask for the copy within two months of your Anmeldung. It confirms your name and date of birth match your registration and that no stranger's record attached itself to you.

A landlord or bank turned you down

A rejection nobody explains usually traces back to a single entry. The data copy names that entry and the company that reported it.

You plan to move or borrow

Corrections take weeks. Checking three months before you need a clean record leaves time to fix whatever turns up.

How to use this tool

1

Enter your details

Name, date of birth, place of birth and your current German address. Everything stays in your browser.

2

Add your previous addresses

List where you lived over the past five years. Schufa matches records by address history, and people who skip this receive an incomplete file.

3

Print, sign, post

Download the PDF, sign it by hand, add a copy of your passport or ID card and post it to Schufa in Cologne.

This is not the document your landlord asks for

Landlords want the Bonitätsauskunft, a short paid certificate built to be shown to third parties. The free data copy is your full internal file and is meant for your own review. Ordering the wrong one costs you three weeks.

Frequently Asked Questions

This service is free. SCHUFA must respond within one month (Art. 12(3) GDPR). In practice the reply arrives within two to four weeks.