Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

I cannot leave it like that! Civil servants in NRW have had a 41-hour workweek for decades. Employees do not!

I hope you don't want to compare civil servants and employees with that now? That the same jobs in the public sector are paid differently is more than strange. See, for example, teachers. Both have the same work. However, one employee receives more money and one month earlier. In addition, she can expect a better pension. The funny thing was also that a female teacher was rejected as a civil servant because she was too fat... Germany fights for equal treatment and equality for everyone, but she was too fat for civil servant status as a teacher. As a teacher in employee status, she was good enough... One does not have to understand that...

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.)