Originally Posted by
WorldLux
I wouldn't count on it. I have been asked (out of nowhere) to show my driving license to the immigration officer while transiting from Schengen to Non-Schengen in Munich. Apparently they run checks on stolen/lost documents and my driving license had been stolen two years earlier.
I wouldn't exclude that German border control isn't checkin their database for outstanding fines.
Re: OP's question: Do what you feel comfortable with. If you want to pay your outstanding fines (yeah, those people do exist) you may try to contact German police with the information you have (provided you have any information).
Alternatively you can just wait. The worst case scenario is that you'll be stopped by law enforcement in Germany and asked to pay the fines then and there. Unless you racked up hundreds of speeding fines, it's going to end there. That's what I would do.
I know about the German checks for stolen/lost ID, most -- but not all -- of which are tied to INTERPOL's SLTD.
I've even see non-Germans with no German ID and no record in SLTD (and no travel document loss history) get asked questions by German border control over missing/stolen ID/identity theft that had nothing to do with STLD and was tied back to German national lookouts. But hunting at German passport control for a single moving violation fine? I've never encountered that or been told about that being live by German officials working or overseeing functions in this area. And I would be surprised if I hadn't had this asked earlier when I was following up on what goes on at AMS.