Netherlands Consulate General Munich

Before your visit

• Telephone: +49 89 206 026 710.
• WhatsApp: +31 857 737 400 (written messages only).
• No consular counter: do not come for passport matters.

About the Dutch Consulate General in Munich

Important: since the reorganisation of Dutch consular work in Germany, the consulates general in Munich and Düsseldorf no longer have a consular section. Passports, ID cards and other consular matters are handled by the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin – or, for travel documents, by a border municipality in the Netherlands.

Headed by Consul General Ewout-Jan de Witt, the Munich office supports Dutch companies and knowledge institutions in Germany’s two southern economic powerhouses. Honorary consuls in Nuremberg (Fürth) and Stuttgart are local contacts for Dutch citizens.

Passports and ID cards for Dutch citizens in the south

Dutch citizens in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg have three options:

• an appointment at the embassy in Berlin,
• a border municipality in the Netherlands,
• a Dutch embassy in a neighbouring country – from the south, Vienna, Bern and Prague are often nearer than Berlin.

Use the personal checklist on NetherlandsWorldwide before booking; missing documents mean the application cannot be accepted.

Documents checklist

The most frequent applications and the documents the Dutch authorities ask for:

Dutch passport or ID card (application abroad)

• Book a separate appointment for each passport or ID card – at a Dutch embassy or consulate-general, or via VFS Global where available (you may also apply in another country)
• Completed application form, a passport photo meeting the Dutch requirements and your printed personal checklist from netherlandsworldwide.nl
• Proof of legal residence in Germany
• All your Dutch and foreign passports and ID cards, including expired ones (originals)
• Everyone applies in person, including children under 18
• For postal return: a prepaid shipping label per application – note that you first have to send in your old document

Sources: NetherlandsWorldwide (Dutch government) – documents for a passport or ID card from abroad, NetherlandsWorldwide – where to apply from abroad (checked October 2026). Requirements and fees can change and individual posts may ask for more – confirm the current list with the consulate before your visit.

Visa information

German citizens can travel to the European Netherlands with an identity card. Dutch citizens can live and work in Germany without a visa as EU citizens.

Other consulates and embassies in Munich

82 other countries are represented in Munich, among them: North Macedonia (consulate general), Norway (honorary), Panama (honorary), Peru (consulate general), Poland (consulate general), Portugal (honorary), Qatar (consulate general), Romania (consulate general), Senegal (honorary), Serbia (consulate general), Singapore (honorary), Slovakia (consulate general), Slovenia (consulate general), South Africa (consulate general), Spain (consulate general), Sweden (honorary), Switzerland (consulate general), Thailand (consulate general), Tunisia (consulate), Türkiye (consulate general). The full list of all 83 missions is on the overview page for Germany.

Closing days

Closed in 2026 on 1 and 6 January, Good Friday, Easter Monday, King’s Day (27 April), 1 May, Liberation Day (5 May), Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi (4 June), 24–25 December and 31 December.

Emergency assistance

In an emergency, Dutch citizens can reach the Foreign Ministry’s contact centre in The Hague around the clock on +31 247 247 247. Germans needing help in the Netherlands contact the German Embassy in The Hague.

Dutch missions in Germany

Measured in a straight line from Munich, the nearest other Dutch office is the Honorary Consulate in Nuremberg (about 150 km). Distances in brackets are straight-line distances from Munich.

• Berlin (500 km) – Embassy of the Netherlands
• Düsseldorf (490 km) – Consulate General (North Rhine-Westphalia, Bremen, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland)
• Munich – Consulate General (Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg) (this page)
• Aachen (490 km) – Honorary Consulate (Aachen, Düren, Heinsberg)
• Bremen (580 km) – Honorary Consulate (Bremen and north-western Lower Saxony)
• Frankfurt am Main (300 km) – Honorary Consulate (Hesse)
• Hamburg (610 km) – Honorary Consulate (Hamburg and surrounding districts)
• Hanover (490 km) – Honorary Consulate (most of Lower Saxony, Detmold region)
• Kiel (Flintbek) (690 km) – Honorary Consulate (most of Schleswig-Holstein)
• Kleve (560 km) – Honorary Consulate (Kleve district, northern Wesel district)
• Cologne (460 km) – Honorary Consulate (Cologne region)
• Leipzig (360 km) – Honorary Consulate (Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia)
• Münster (510 km) – Honorary Consulate (Münster region)
• Nuremberg (150 km) – Honorary Consulate (Franconia and Upper Palatinate)
• Stuttgart (190 km) – Honorary Consulate (Baden-Württemberg)