The persistent economic crisis cost the German industry more than 100,000 jobs in one year. Results from the analysis of the consulting company EY. TASR informs this based on the DPA report.
The crisis has been most affected by the automotive industry. Only in this sector in Germany, approximately 45,400 jobs were canceled in Germany last year.
At the end of the 1st quarter of 2025, the German industry employed around 5.46 million people. This is 1.8 % or 101,000 less than in the same period a year ago, the EY study, which is based on data from the Federal Statistical Office of Destatis.
Employment decreases from Pandémoe
Since 2019, a year before the start of the pandemic, the number of employed in the German industry has decreased by a total of 217,000 or 3.8 %. In 2018, the employment in the industry was a record of approximately 5.7 million people.
Industrial companies are under enormous pressure, said partner and member of EY Deutschland management Jan Brorhilker. “Aggressive competitors, for example from China, are pushing down prices, important sales markets weak, low -level demand in Europe, and the whole market in the US is questionable. At the same time, companies are struggling with high costs, such as energy and employees.”
They do not expect improvement
According to Brorhilker, the end of the dismissal in the German industry is not yet illustrated. By the end of the year, he expects to cancel at least 70,000 jobs. Engineering companies and automakers are introducing energy -saving programs. “We’ll hear a lot of bad news until the situation improves again.”
Only in the automotive industry, which struggles with a decline in sales, Chinese competition and transition to electromobility, almost 6 % of jobs have been lost in one year. Employment in the sector at the end of March 2025 reached approximately 734,000 people. Employment has also significantly reduced in the metalworking and textile industries, by more than 4 %. On the contrary, in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, the decrease was only minimal (-0.3 %).
