“In the middle industrial sector, the mood may not yet be at an apocalyptic level, but it is still very cloudy,” Rainer Kirchdörfer, member of the board of directors of the Family Business Foundation, told FOCUS magazine in Berlin. “Falls in sales, constantly increasing costs, not only in the case of energy. “Global competitiveness is also affected by increasing bureaucracy.”
DM boss Werner feels uncertainty among people
“Every day literally a new pig is taken through the town. The mentality is no longer correct. Money must be earned before it is spent.” Christoph Werner, heir, boss and co-owner of the dm pharmacy chain, experiences “uncertainty among the citizens of our country. I often hear that nothing is moving forward. Concern about their own well-paid jobs is growing. And people are noticing that Germany is losing its importance globally.”
At a FOCUS summit of several large German family businesses, Natalie Mekelburger, head and owner of the Wuppertal company Coroplast, also warned: “Red-Green is following a path of eco-social control. But I would like us to be able to solve the problems by taking advantage of the possibilities of the market economy, and this also includes openness to technology.” Currently, he sees “almost no perspective” for the country. The republic needs “a master plan that is government cannot offer,” said Rolf Schnellecke, chairman of the supervisory board of the multi-million-dollar Schnellecke Logistics in Wolfsburg. “Unfortunately, only headlessness reigns.”
Schnellecke told FOCUS: “I specifically want relief instead of burdens – from taxes to solidarity – and away from regulatory madness. We must put an end to paternalism and the madness of control.” DM head Werner also calls for reinforcing the debt brake and “budgetary discipline, although this is not at all popular at the moment. We have to prioritize and set priorities. “The new debt prevents exactly that and creates new problems for the future.”
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