§ 10. From the time of its issuance, the certificate of naturalization or, respectively, the certificate of admittance, confers all of the rights and obligations associated with citizenship.
§ 11. Provided no exception is made, the conferment of citizenship also extends simultaneously to the wife and to any underage children still under paternal authority.
§ 12. Residence in a federal state alone does not establish citizenship.
§ 13. In the future, citizenship expires only:
1) through release upon request (§§ 14 ff.);
2) through a pronouncement by the authorities (§§ 20 and 22);
3) through residence abroad for ten or more years (§ 21);
4) in the case of illegitimate children, through legitimation effected in accordance with legal regulations, if the father is a citizen of a different country than the mother;
5) in the case of a North German woman, through marriage to a citizen of another federal state or to a foreigner.
§ 14. Release [of citizenship] is granted through a certificate of release issued by the senior administrative authority of the home state.
§ 15. Release is granted to any citizen who furnishes proof of having acquired citizenship in another federal state.
In the absence of this proof, release must not be granted to:
1) persons 17-25 years of age who are liable for military service, and who have not yet submitted a certificate issued by the district recruiting commission testifying to the fact that they are not applying for release with the sole intention of evading their compulsory service in the standing army or in the navy; 2) military personnel serving in the standing army or the navy, officers on leave, and civil servants prior to their discharge from office; 3) non-commissioned persons serving in the reserves of the standing army and the militia, or in the navy reserves and the naval militia, who have been called for active service.
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