No. What counts is the office’s activity under WZ class 71.11, not whether a person is entered in the list of architects. The export does not show whether an office is run by a registered architect.
M 71
Architecture practices, engineering and planning offices, surveyors and testing laboratories – for building product manufacturers, providers of CAD and tendering software, specialist publishers and construction companies looking for partners.
121,466 businesses in Germany according to Destatis, business register, GENESIS table 52111-0010 (reference year 2024, table updated 21 September 2026). Division 71 architectural and engineering activities, technical testing and analysis. We quote the size, contact coverage and price of your export on request.
Division 71 is titled “Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis”. It groups planners and testers together. For most requests, the two classes of group 71.1 are what counts.
Both classes are subdivided further at the fifth digit. For engineering offices the breakdown is still coarse: “technical specialist planning and engineering design” covers building services planners alongside design offices for mechanical engineering. If you are looking for building planners, name the specialty.
| WZ 2008 | Official title | For your selection |
|---|---|---|
| 71.11 | Architectural activities | building construction (71.11.1), interior architecture (71.11.2), town, regional and land-use planning (71.11.3), garden and landscape design (71.11.4) |
| 71.12 | Engineering activities | overall structural planning (71.12.1), technical specialist planning and engineering design (71.12.2), surveying offices (71.12.3), other (71.12.9) |
| 71.2 | Technical testing and analysis | testing laboratories, materials testing, inspection organisations |
Professional law for architects and consulting engineers is a matter for the federal states. Each state has its own chamber and its own act; the basic principles are similar.
These 15 columns are included.
The list of architects includes every registered person – including the architect employed at the local building authority and the retiree. A company list contains offices, i.e. economic units with a business address. The two figures cannot be converted into one another.
Architects and consulting engineers practise a liberal profession. A sole practice is not in the commercial register. Joint practices are partnership companies registered in the partnership register or planning companies in the form of a GmbH. For sole practices, the legal notice (Impressum) on their own website is usually the only public source; such a record is personal data.
The work stages an office covers, its types of projects (residential, commercial, public buildings) and its size are not apparent from any public register.
We manufacture façade systems and are looking for architecture practices for building construction (71.11.1) in Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony with a website, to send planning documents by post. Interior architecture and landscape design offices should not be included. How many offices does the selection contain?
Use cases
Sending planning documents and invitations to professional events to offices in a region.
Market size by federal state and booking appointments by phone.
Planning offices in their own catchment area as cooperation partners.
Training programmes sent by post to architecture and engineering offices.
Questions
No. What counts is the office’s activity under WZ class 71.11, not whether a person is entered in the list of architects. The export does not show whether an office is run by a registered architect.
For engineering offices, the classification only distinguishes overall structural planning, technical specialist planning, surveying and other. Structural design and building services are not separate positions. A selection by specialty relies on the office name and activity description and is an approximation.
Insofar as they appear in the dataset’s sources as an office whose main activity is 71.12 or 71.2. Official appointment or recognition as a checking engineer (Prüfingenieur) is not a field in the export.
121,466 businesses in Germany according to Destatis, business register, GENESIS table 52111-0010 (reference year 2024, table updated 21 September 2026). Division 71 architectural and engineering activities, technical testing and analysis. This is a figure from official statistics, not the size of our dataset.
Format, sources, price and marketing law (§ 7 UWG): questions about all industries.