Key legal question
Whether a person with an employer-like position in a GmbH is entitled to unemployment benefits before formally leaving the company.
Extracted holding
A person in an employer-like position is generally not entitled to unemployment benefits until the position is clearly ended, in particular by deletion from the commercial register or equivalent definitive exit.
Extracted reasoning
The court followed its case law that unemployment insurance does not cover entrepreneurial risk. While the claimant had no wages and had not effectively operated the business, the decisive factor was that he remained registered as managing partner with employer-like powers and could still influence or expand the business. This made abuse prevention and legal certainty require denial of benefits until he definitively left the company.