AboutHenning Haarhaus Expertise I am a Certified German Lawyer and a Certified Tax Specialist Solicitor. I practice in German inheritance, inheritance tax law and civil law. I also offer my legal services in the fields of German business, tax & commercial law; e.g. business organisations, contracts; debt collections and international law. I have been working as a German lawyer since 1999 in the forenamed fields.
Experience
Education, credentials and professional experience: - graduated as certified banker in 1989
- passed First State Exam (JD-equivalent) in 1994
- postgraduate judicial service traineeship in Berlin
- passed Final State Exam and admitted to the bar in 1999
- practiced in an internationally operating law and tax consultancy firm in Dresden
- founded the law offices of Henning Haarhaus in 2003
- passed exam on theoretical expertise in the field of tax law in 2004
- passed exam on theoretical expertise in the field of inheritance law in 2005
- awarded the title Certified Tax Expert in 2007
You can find extensive information on German inheritance, real estate and business law in English in the online resource of the law office:
http://www.kanzlei-haarhaus.de
Expert: Henning Haarhaus Date: 7/13/2008 Subject: German citizenship
Question My grandmother was born in Germany and left in the late 1920s when she was very young. My mother is now looking into obtaining dual citizenship based on my her mother's (my grandmother's) German birth. I have two questions:
1) Can my mother obtain dual citizenship if she was born in the United States in 1950? And, if so what would she need to do to obtain citizenship
2) Can I get dual citizenship after my mother attains it? I was born in the United States in 1977.
Thank you!
Answer The answer to your question depends on whether your grandmother took over the American citizenship after her emigration and before giving birth to your mother. If at that time she still had been a German national your mother and you would be entitled to the German citizenship due to your descent, too. If she had already been a U.S. citizen one would have to check if according to the former German law the German citizenship was sustained nevertheless. However, today this would not be the case and I do not believe that in ancient times this would have been regulated otherwise.
