Bequest
If you name the German Cancer Research Center as an heir in your will, we will take care of the comprehensive handling of your estate carefully, respectfully and professionally. To ensure that your wishes can be implemented, please contact us and let us know what is important to you.
You can rely on this:
- Organization of the funeral (at your request also in the Ruheforst, Friedwald or another forest cemetery), if you have not already arranged this yourself
- Completion of all formalities, such as the termination of contracts
- Sale of real estate, vehicles, works of art and jewelry
- Fulfillment of legacies
- Dissolution of the bequest by the DKFZ and rapid transfer of the proceeds to cancer research without incurring unnecessary costs for third parties
- As a charitable foundation under public law, the German Cancer Research Center is exempt from inheritance and gift tax. This means that the DKFZ does not have to pay any taxes to the state in the event of inheritance
Your contact persons
Rosina Lisker
Office of Development
German Cancer Research Center
+49 6221 42-2626
nachlass(at)dkfz.de
Heike Schimmeier-Strugies
Office of Development
German Cancer Research Center
+49 6221 42-5446
nachlass(at)dkfz.de
Further information
Will brochure "Hoffnung schaffen auf ein Leben ohne Krebs" (order form)
Checklist
Key information for your inheritance ( PDF , 212.40 KB )
FAQs on wills Here you will find the most frequently asked questions on the subject of inheritance and bequests.
Data protection information
Data protection information of the German Cancer Research Center on inheritances ( PDF , 125.94 KB )