Our code
What you can hold us to.
Seriousness shows not in promises, but in what a firm refuses to do. This code applies from day one — and it is published here so you can hold us to it.
Register of restraint
What we refuse to do
This register names what we do not do. It is the core of our code — short, complete, without small print.
I · Self-interest — what we keep our hands off
- No trading in cases. We do not sell contacts or cases to buy-up firms.
- No products of our own. We do not broker partial-sale or life-annuity schemes as a product of our own.
- No financial advice of our own. We do not advise on investments and offer no bridge financing of our own — for that we refer you to independent, fee-based specialists.
- No appraisals of our own. We do not sell a neutral, formal valuation ourselves; we organise it through an independent surveyor.
II · Data and respect — no pressure in pain
- No targeting of distress. We approach no one on the basis of illness, care or bereavement signals. No fear advertising, no cold-calling.
- No early approach after a death. In the first two months we approach no one — and we do not raise marketing on our own initiative before month six.
- Quiet in the year of mourning. In the first year after a bereavement of a spouse, no approach comes from us.
III · Roles — where our limit lies
- No care-placement broking for a fee. That is what the care-support centres are for, which we name without any return.
- No power-of-attorney or guardianship roles. We take on no powers of attorney and no guardianships for clients.
Valid from day one. Binding for every engagement. Public, so you can hold us to it.
Gerhard Witt · Founder, Wahrgut GmbH i. Gr.
Transparency
What we disclose.
How Wahrgut earns. Clarification is paid as a fixed fee, independent of any outcome. Marketing as a customary commission — only if a sale actually happens. We state the specific amounts in the free initial conversation — in writing, before any engagement.
Neutral referrers we never pay. Places that should stay neutral — notaries, lawyers, care-support centres — we recommend without paying them anything or taking anything from them. We earn their trust through quality, not money.
Partner fees, disclosed. If a cooperating funeral director hands a case over to us, this happens only with the family’s documented consent — and only at the end of the funeral-director relationship, never in the acute moment of grief. That the funeral director is a paid partner is disclosed to the family.
Tip-providers. Tip-providers receive nothing from us covertly. Every payment is disclosed.
Arbitrated value. We do not market a neutral arbitrated value, and we do not credit it against any commission.
How you can verify this.
Every commitment in this code can be checked in concrete terms. On request we name the evidence — such as the documented consent, the written disclosure or the dated agreement record. If you see a breach, put it to us in writing: we respond within two working days.
Version 1.1 · as at 9 September 2026. We will name earlier versions on request.
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