Until around the year 1800, only about 25,000 people lived in Munich, but through incorporations and population growth the number of inhabitants rose within a century to around 500,000. In May 2015, the 1.5 million mark was even exceeded, the achievement of which had been forecast only five years earlier for 2030. Munich’s citizens and the detectives of Kurtz Investigations Munich therefore live and work in one of the fastest-growing cities in Germany and Europe. The population of our Bavarian capital is characterised by cultural diversity: prior to the refugee wave of 2015, the proportion of foreign residents stood at 26.8 percent – by comparison, the nationwide average was 10.1 percent and the average of the Free State of Bavaria 11.1 percent.
Just as diverse as Munich’s demography are the cases with which the private detectives of Kurtz Detective Agency Munich are entrusted. Every client has their own story to tell, and our detectives have an open ear for each one: +49 89 7007 4301.
At the end of 2024, more than 1.6 million people lived in 864,028 households in Munich, around half of them – approximately 440,000 – being single-person households. Although Munich, unlike other major cities, records more births than deaths, there are only 164,834 households with children, of which 28,729 are accounted for by single mothers or fathers. Despite this comparatively small number, the detectives of Kurtz Private Detective Agency Munich frequently deal with cases in which the commissioning parent is dissatisfied with custody and maintenance arrangements or harbours doubts about the suitability of the child’s father or mother to exercise custody or contact rights.
Our Munich private detectives examine your suspicions with qualified and court-admissible investigative work: kontakt@kurtz-detektei-muenchen.de.
In a satirical article in the online newspaper "The Huffington Post", author Tilman Birr writes about clichés and reality in Munich: "The cherished notions of a wealthy kiss-kiss society and long-haired businessmen in sailing outfits, […] of twenty-year-old fraternity faces racing down Leopoldstraße in an SLK while wearing Prada glasses […] – all of these are prejudice-laden concepts from the mothball cupboard. […] The real Munich looks different. […] For what the rest of Germany still refuses to accept: Munich is poor. Munich is run-down, violent, criminal and distinctly shabby. […] Travellers who are still wearing at least a jacket or shoes are lured into an ambush and threatened with a plank with a nail protruding from the front."
Even if this text is written satirically, it is not entirely removed from reality. Of course, Munich is still home to the notorious and oft-celebrated "Schickeria" with figures from politics, film and sport, and the quality of life in Munich remains well above the German national average and even more so above the European average – yet unfortunately our city also has a dark side: criminals. With an increase in overall crime of 7.3 percent from 2013 to 2014, the rises in street crime (plus 11.4 percent), burglary (plus 10.8 percent) and serious theft (plus 15.9 percent) in particular give cause for concern, especially when it is simultaneously observed that the number of juveniles (plus 4.1 percent) and young adults (plus 25.5 percent) among offenders, as well as the number of foreign perpetrators (plus 28.0 percent), has increased noticeably.
Our Munich private detectives are increasingly encountering these developments in their work. Consequently, the classic field of activity of investigation services such as Kurtz Investigations Munich is shifting ever further away from the still dominant topics of infidelity, maintenance or address tracing towards greater plurality, which in some cases includes investigations into serious offences and crimes such as burglary and bodily harm. Such tendencies are worrying and at the same time stimulating for our detectives, because one thing is clear: the more diverse our cases are, the more we can learn from them for practical fieldwork as private detectives in Munich. We are also happy to support you with all of our accumulated experience: +49 89 7007 4301.
Kurtz Detective Agency Munich offers private individuals, among other things, the following private investigations:
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