Head of IT group with tough analysis: "Germany has become a 'shit-nation'"
Created: 09/28/2022, 04:58 am
By: Lisa Mayerhofer
Entrepreneur Ulrich Dietz is a co-founder of the software service provider GFT and Vice President of the digital association Bitkom.
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Ulrich Dietz, founder of the IT company GFT, believes that German society is becoming accustomed to ever-worsening standards - and settles accounts with the government.
Stuttgart – The energy crisis has Germany firmly in its grip – more and more companies are suffering from the enormously increased prices for electricity and gas.
Small and medium-sized businesses have therefore asked the federal government to provide quick relief.
"With the current pace, we will not be able to protect the economic substance of our country in the long term," said Markus Jerger, federal director of the Federal Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses, the German Press Agency.
"A significant number of companies have already reduced production, more and more companies are considering moving part of their business activities abroad - the situation for medium-sized companies is becoming more threatening every day," says Jerger.
"We need nothing more than an immediate relief boost for the economy."
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Ulrich Dietz, co-founder of the software developer GFT, is also of the opinion in an interview with the
Handelsblatt
that the current crisis will be "one crisis too many".
"It will often happen very quickly in the next few months, even for companies that have been solid for years," says the enterprising entrepreneur and Vice President of the digital association Bitkom, who advises the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) and as one of the drivers of digitization in Germany.
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“The low income and also the smaller companies will get the full force of the high gas prices in the next few months.
Many companies will only realize this when they see their invoice.
A cost and insolvency tsunami is coming our way," the entrepreneur told the business magazine.
You really need to get gas prices under control.
"If necessary, with a gas price cap by the state."
The government's previous measures had "jumped far too short".
“The traffic light parties try above all to take into account the expectations of their clientele.
This activism is so little thought through that it flies in the government's ears again three months later," Dietz told the
Handelsblatt
.
The proposal by Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) that companies hit by energy prices should stop production for a while left him speechless.
"One or the other minister could use a bit more expertise," says Dietz.
“Society is getting used to lower and lower standards.
This indifference is unbearable.”
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The businessman is also harsh on society in his country: Germany has become a "don't give a shit" nation, he thinks.
“Society is getting used to lower and lower standards.
This indifference is unbearable.
Made in Germany is becoming less and less valuable.
The digitization of the administration is not progressing, we are trapped in a federal structure, one blames the other.
The lowest common denominator is not a solution for the present and certainly not for the future," Dietz told the
Handelsblatt
.
Germany is “meanwhile coming to terms with conditions that are intolerable.
Sitting on a plane and not being given any information for two hours as to why you are standing on the runway.
Whether trains simply break down or there are permanent construction sites on the roads where no work is done for weeks: somehow nothing works properly in this country anymore.
We must not be content with these conditions.” (
dpa/ph)
