German driver's licences don't normally have addresses on them. You can easily find example pictures of them with an image search on the web.
> If legal actions were to occur involving an average person, how does that person get notified?
The authorities send you a letter at the address that's registered with them (if you have one and they have one). That system is just completely independent of driver's licenses.
Your government ID card and passport do have your address on them (if you have one).
Interestingly, I also don't have a fixed address in Germany, because I haven't lived there in a while.
Officially, you need to tell them that you are leaving, but for the longest time I did not. (Mostly out of laziness.) They tracked me down once in Singapore to remind me to pay back my student loans, and I dutifully complied.
My passport shows my Australian address, because that's where I lived when I last had to renew that document. (And it also only shows that I lived in Sydney without any further details. German addresses would tell to the street and number etc.)
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Just to summarize: Germany does have many of the same issues in general (but the exact details vary). It just so happens that in Germany this system does not intersect (much) with driver's licenses.
Mostly because Driver's licenses are not used as general ID cards in Germany.
> If legal actions were to occur involving an average person, how does that person get notified?
The authorities send you a letter at the address that's registered with them (if you have one and they have one). That system is just completely independent of driver's licenses.
Your government ID card and passport do have your address on them (if you have one).
https://icwb.com/de/keine-meldeadresse and https://praxistipps.focus.de/meldeadresse-ohne-wohnung-das-s... are two random website about how to deal with the system, if you don't have a fixed address.
See also https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einwohnermeldeamt
> How would you be notified?
Interestingly, I also don't have a fixed address in Germany, because I haven't lived there in a while.
Officially, you need to tell them that you are leaving, but for the longest time I did not. (Mostly out of laziness.) They tracked me down once in Singapore to remind me to pay back my student loans, and I dutifully complied.
My passport shows my Australian address, because that's where I lived when I last had to renew that document. (And it also only shows that I lived in Sydney without any further details. German addresses would tell to the street and number etc.)
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Just to summarize: Germany does have many of the same issues in general (but the exact details vary). It just so happens that in Germany this system does not intersect (much) with driver's licenses.
Mostly because Driver's licenses are not used as general ID cards in Germany.