Bankruptcies; monthly figures by legal form/activity SIC'93, 1993-Apr.2014
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Table explanation
This table gives a monthly and quarterly overview of pronounced bankruptcies by legal form. Legal persons can end in a bankruptcy via a suspension of payment, when they stop paying their debts. Figures about suspensions of payment are not available anymore since 1998.
Data concerning bankruptcies available from: January 1993 - April 2014.
Status of the figures:
All figures in this table are definite.
Changes as of July 10, 2014:
None, this tabel has been discontinued as of July 1, 2014.
When will new figures be published?
Not, the has been discintinued as of july 1, 2014.
Description topics
- Bankruptcies by legal form
- Total pronounced bankruptcies
- Single-owner comp. , trading partnership
- Legal unities with exception of natural persons without single-owner
company.- Total pronounced bankruptcies
- Single-owner companies
- Natural persons who have their own company or owned such company
prior to the bankruptcy.
An own company is a company without separate capital. The natural
person is responsible for all actions and fortune matters of the company.
Within the own company it is possible that more persons are employed.
- Trading partnerships
- All kinds of legal persons as: public cooperations, partnerships,
societies and foundations, Ltd. and other foreign legal persons.
If partnership firms or limited partnerships go bankrupt, the
participating partners will also be declared bankrupt.
The bankruptcy is generally pronounced in one sentence, the participating
partners, however, are separately included in the relevant legal form.
Partners can be both natural persons as legal persons. Legal persons as
partner of a bankrupt partnership firm or limited partnership are included
in the item trading partnerships.
Natural persons as partner are included in the item natural persons not
single-owner company sub-item partners.
- Natural persons not single-owner company
- Natural persons who do not own a company without separate capital.
It concerns "normal man or woman" who got into trouble by private debts
and not (successful) used the debt restructuring.
Also it concerns partners, who are natural persons, of a bankrupt
partnership firm or limited partnership.- Total pronounced bankruptcies
- Partners
- Natural persons who participate in partnership firms or limited
partnerships. If partnership firms or limited partnerships go bankrupt
the participating partners (excluding the silent partner in limited
partnership) will also be declared bankrupt.
Partners, being a natural person, can only appeal to debt restructuring
to prevent their own bankruptcy.
- Other natural persons
- Natural persons who do not own a company without separate capital or
who are not partner in a partnership firm or limited partnership. For the
most parts it concerns people without a business.
Natural persons who fully own a company with separate capital (such as
Ltd) are included in the item other natural persons.
By the item other natural persons it concerns "normal man or woman" who
got into trouble by private debts and not (successful) used the debt
restructuring.
This item includes also companis in formation.