Was muss ich tun?

The real problem with German bureaucracy is rarely a single form but the question before it: where do I even start? Anyone getting married, having a child, or losing their job often has to visit five different offices, in a certain order, with certain documents - and nobody tells you which. What Do I Need to Do? is the missing starting point: you pick your life event and the tool builds the complete sequence of steps.

Fifteen situations are covered, and they are the ones that really happen in life: moving, self-employment and trade registration, marriage, the birth of a child, tax return, immigration, separation and divorce, a death, job loss, renting a flat, buying property, buying and registering a car, school enrolment, retirement, and closing a business. For each you get a guided checklist, not general waffle.

The value lies in the order and the deadlines. For a birth you need the birth certificate before the parental allowance application; for a move the landlord confirmation before registration; for a death the death certificate before almost everything else. The tool sorts the steps so you do not have to show up twice, and names the deadlines that really count - the two weeks for registration, the days for reporting a death, the deadline for parental allowance.

Every step comes with a document checklist. Instead of discovering at the office that the marriage certificate is missing, you see beforehand what to bring. That spares the grinding second and third attempts that cost the most time and nerves.

What Do I Need to Do? is deliberately built as a signpost, not a dead end. Where a more specialised tool helps - the traffic fine calculator, the parental allowance calculator, the registration checklist, the Deadline Guardian - it points there instead of doing everything half-baked itself. So you get the overview first and then the right detail tool.

Everything runs in your browser, without an account and without your life event being stored anywhere. That matters especially in sensitive situations like divorce, job loss, or a death: you get the orientation you need without trading away your privacy for it. In German and English, in plain words, so newcomers find their way in too.