Microchip and registration

Microchip and registration: Thuringia

Is a microchip required, and is there a dog register? This is what the official source says for Thuringia, with the date checked.

sourcedchecked on 28 October 2026

Summary

Microchip required for all dogs

The rule

Every dog must be permanently marked by a veterinarian, at the owner's expense, with a tamper-proof, electronically readable transponder (microchip to ISO standard); the marking must be reported to the responsible authority (§ 2 Abs. 4 ThürTierGefG, not amended in 2018).

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. § 2 Abs. 4 does not mention a dog register; the ordinance on the type of marking not read.

Source

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)

More sources

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)

checked on 28 October 2026

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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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