Liability insurance

Liability insurance: Thuringia

Is liability insurance for dogs required? This is what the official source says for Thuringia, with the date checked.

sourcedchecked on 28 October 2026

Summary

Required for all dogs

The rule

Anyone who keeps a dog must take out and maintain liability insurance with at least 500,000 euros for personal injury and 250,000 euros for other damage, and prove this to the authority with a certificate under § 113 Abs. 2 VVG (§ 2 Abs. 5 ThürTierGefG in the 2018 version).

Open points

No consolidated version read (the state law portal cannot be retrieved as text); read: the 2011 Act and the 2018 amending Act in the Law and Ordinance Gazette. Later amendments not checked.

Source

Änderungsgesetz vom 12. Februar 2018 zum Thüringer Gesetz zum Schutz der Bevölkerung vor Tiergefahren (ThürTierGefG), GVBl. für den Freistaat Thüringen Nr. 1/2018, ab S. 1 (PDF of the parliamentary documentation of the Thuringian state parliament)

More sources

Thüringer Gesetz zum Schutz der Bevölkerung vor Tiergefahren vom 22. Juni 2011, GVBl. für den Freistaat Thüringen Nr. 6/2011, S. 93 (PDF of the parliamentary documentation of the Thuringian state parliament)

checked on 28 October 2026

Liability insurance in the other federal states

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No guarantee

As of: 28 October 2026. The official text alone is authoritative. Source and date checked per row.

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