Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Too fat also applies to tax officials. An acquaintance lost a lot of weight almost 20 years ago so that he could obtain civil servant status. After that, no one cares how fat or thin you are. As a non-civil servant, he was healthy enough to perform the work.

So I'm not saying that this is okay, but there can be a (internally) consistent justification for it. As a civil servant, you are not simply an employee of the state like other workers. You are a service person and the state is the service master. That means not only no right to strike, but in cases of disasters, war, and other emergencies, almost universally deployable. So under certain circumstances, also for stacking sandbags or pushing injured people on stretchers around. Whether that's realistic or if there could be other solutions for it. No idea, I would have to think about it. But I could imagine that this is a justification for such criteria.

No, this is not about stacking sandbags. Simply put: As part of the occupational medical examination, it must be ensured that the civil servant is likely able to perform their job until retirement without constantly being a burden on the employer/taxpayer due to illness or similar. Because once appointed as a civil servant, the employer actually has an increased duty of care. )Unfortunately, the employer sometimes forgets this when it comes to salary.) And you don’t have to have the perfect BMI for that....

And no, I am neither a civil servant nor in the public sector.

I think you are right with the reasoning. It was just implemented that way in the Ahr Valley, during the Elbe flood, or now with the fires in Brandenburg.

So the debate about the speed limit is purely ideologically motivated. The current data analysis in NRW showed an "increase" in average speed from 99 km/h to a whole 101 (!) km/h. @alldieeinschränkungsfetischisten: how much more do you need until absolute happiness? The debate will probably only end after the dismantling of the highways, right?

You do know that NRW is the federal state with the most traffic jams and the largest continuous metropolitan areas? And that the average speed is massively lowered by the many traffic jams? Show the same statistics for Brandenburg. (That traffic jams also do not contribute to a good climate balance is clear.)

, yes, of course that too. I had only read my argumentation somewhere, also generally regarding the supposed preferential treatment of civil servants compared to employees. They simply have fewer rights and in case of doubt more duties, so it is justified. There are even teachers or other public service employees who are offered civil servant status but decline precisely for those reasons.

Whether this is always done in practice is another question.