Form a GmbH or UG with Norman

Create your plan

Start at norman.finance/de/en/incorporation and describe your idea. Norman asks for the legal form, company name, seat, share capital and number of founders, then shows your plan:

• the costs: Norman's formation support is free; the notary and the commercial register bill you directly.
• your roadmap for the first 90 days, from the notary appointment to the first VAT return.

Save the plan with your email address. In Norman you then add the business address and the details of shareholders and managing directors.

Invite co-founders

You don't have to enter every detail yourself. Send your co-founders a link, and they fill in their own details:

• A person enters their name, date of birth and address.
• A company enters its seat, register court, register number and who signs for it.

The link is valid for 7 days and works once. When it is opened, we email a 6-digit code to the invited address, and only then does the form open. Your co-founder needs no Norman account for this. If the link has expired, send a new one with Send a new link in the shareholder list. The old link then stops working.

Contact a notary

Norman shows you notaries in your city with their website, email and phone number. You book the appointment directly with the notary.

• Notaries from our network come first and carry the note Norman partner. Feel free to mention that you're coming from Norman.
• For an online notarization (DiRUG), every shareholder needs an ID card with an activated eID function.

Once you have contacted a notary, click I've contacted a notary. You can download your founding documents (Musterprotokoll or articles of association, and the shareholder list) beforehand. The notary produces the binding versions.

Founder Edition

If you form your company with Norman, you can get the Founder Edition: 12 months of Norman Max for €199 plus VAT instead of €468. It includes:

• an onboarding call for your first steps in Norman
• pre-filled tax returns that you submit directly from Norman
• unlimited questions to Norman about the first steps in accounting and tax reporting
• AI bookkeeping, advanced invoicing and payroll

The offer is for a company you form with Norman that has no plan yet, and it stays on your Home page for 28 days from the start of the formation. After the first year, the plan renews at €468 per year plus VAT. You can cancel before then.

After the notary appointment

On your Home page, Norman guides you through the next steps: open a business account, pay in the share capital, registration in the commercial register, tax registration with the Finanzamt, trade registration and the transparency register. When you tick off a step, Norman shows the next one.

You can also start the formation in ChatGPT: Form a company with the Norman app in ChatGPT.