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Germany

EDRIX-Wert

7.59

Stufe

Leader

EDRIX-Säulen-Werte (normalisiert 0–10)

Entwickler-Ökosystem 3.22 / 10
Adoption an der Basis 9.30 / 10
Resilienz des privaten Sektors 8.95 / 10
Resilienz des öffentlichen Sektors 8.89 / 10

Rohmetriken

Die zugrunde liegenden Werte vor der Min-Max-Normalisierung über die EU27.

GitHub-Entwickler (pro-Kopf-Index) 2.87
Linux-Anteil auf Desktop- und Laptop-Computern 6.16%
Anteil souveräner Browser (Firefox + Opera) 24.36%
Domain-Souveränitätsbewertung — alle (nationale TLD) 0.577
Domain-Souveränitätsbewertung — öffentlicher Sektor 0.889

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Narrative updated for the September 2026 edition.

Germany returns to first place in the September 2026 EDRIX at 7.59, ahead of Finland (7.40) and Austria (7.38). The gain since June (7.28, 2nd) comes from the private-sector pillar, up from 7.85 to 8.95: the measured .de sample rates 0.58, fifth-best in the EU27. Grassroots adoption remains the strongest pillar (9.30, 2nd): the sovereign browser share is 24.36% (Firefox + Opera), second only to Poland, and the desktop Linux share of 6.16% is the EU's second-highest. The ceiling remains the developer-ecosystem pillar (3.22, 15th), a per-capita density that lands mid-table behind the small, developer-dense economies.

Strengths

  • Grassroots adoption (9.30, 2nd). A 24.36% sovereign browser share and 6.16% desktop Linux, both second in the EU27.
  • Private-sector hosting (8.95, 5th). Of 479 measured .de domains, 60% are hosted by EU providers, led by DFN, Hetzner and SOPRADO.
  • Public sector (8.89, 5th). www.bundespraesident.de and www.bundeskanzler.de are fully EU-hosted (ITZBund, CONET, IONOS).

Weaknesses

  • Developer density (2.87, 15th) trails the Netherlands (5.66), Estonia (5.23) and Cyprus (4.91).
  • Berlin's DNS holds back the public pillar. www.berlin.de is served and mailed from Germany (SysEleven, snafu), but its DNS runs on Amazon; the site rates 0.67.
  • Email. 46% of the measured .de domains route email through non-EU providers; Amazon (16%) and Cloudflare (11%) lead the non-EU web hosts.

Outlook

The lead is narrow: 0.19 point over Finland and 0.21 over Austria, on a pillar (private sector) whose sample is renewed every quarter. Moving Berlin's DNS to an EU operator would lift the public pillar into the perfect-10 group. The developer pillar is structural and will not move quickly.

Historical context

2020 baseline

In 2020, Germany was a "leader," driving the European digital sovereignty agenda with its industrial and political weight. Its approach was broad, proactive, and deeply institutionalized, supported by a mature, government-backed ecosystem for open source software.

2024 progression

By 2024, Germany has significantly accelerated its federal open source policy. The government's "Digital Strategy for 2025" focuses on achieving digital sovereignty through the systematic use of open source. The establishment of the Centre for Digital Sovereignty (ZenDiS) in 2022 is a landmark development, steering major projects like the "Sovereign Workplace" and the federal code repository Open CoDE.

Historischer Verweis

OSOR-Datenblatt (PDF, 2024) — der länderbezogene Open-Source-Politikbericht, der in der zurückgezogenen Säule „Öffentliche Politik“ von EDRIX 1.0 verwendet wurde.