CELEX: 62014CN0438
Language: en
Date: 2014-09-23 00:00:00
Title: Case C-438/14: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Karlsruhe (Germany) lodged on 23 September 2014  — Nabiel Peter Bogendorff von Wolffersdorff

22.12.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 462/13
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Karlsruhe (Germany) lodged on 23 September 2014 — Nabiel Peter Bogendorff von Wolffersdorff
   (Case C-438/14)
   (2014/C 462/22)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Amtsgericht Karlsruhe
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Nabiel Peter Bogendorff von Wolffersdorff
   
      Other parties: Standesamt der Stadt Karlsruhe, Zentraler Juristischer Dienst der Stadt Karlsruhe
   
      Question referred
   
   Are Articles 18 TFEU and 21 TFEU to be interpreted as meaning that the authorities of a Member State are obliged to recognise the change of name of a national of that State if he is at the same time a national of another Member State and has acquired in that Member State, during habitual residence, by means of a change of name not associated with a change of family law status, a freely chosen name including several tokens of nobility, where it is possible that a future substantial link with that State does not exist and in the first Member State the nobility has been abolished by constitutional law but the titles of nobility used at the time of abolition may continue to be used as part of a name?