How is Germany the richest country in Europe? (GDP) REACTION

comparing the GDP of a country with the market value of some company is a bit skewed. The GDP is the annual gross domestic product corresponding to the sum of the market value of all final goods and services produced in that year – meaning Germany produces twice the stock exchange value of all Apple shares per year, so it could theoretically buy every year the whole Apple group (or its equivalent) and have still around 2 trillion left. On the other hand the GDP also includes things like infrastructure maintenance, health costs and the repairs after accidents.
Before 1990 (West) Germany had about the same population as UK and France. The reunification added around 16 mio. people from the former GDR (which had already a shrinking population at that time). The total population then grew very slowly to about 82.5 mio. in 2003, shrunk to 80.3 mio. in 2011 and is since then growing again, but only in West Germany. In East Germany (except Berlin) it more or less stagnated.
GDP is only one of multiple indicators. It is important to include how it is produced. Russia's GDP was mainly boosted by gas, oil and minerals exports. UK made much (but by far not most) of its GDP by the financial sector (which gets still drained by the Brexit). Germany's strength is its export, the trade surplus, mostly by B2B producers as well as the car industry.
GDP by capita is far higher in tax havens and small countries doubling as millionaires resorts (or countries making most of their GDP in the financial sector), so it is not in any case comparable between countries. Even salaries taken for themselves are not a good comparison – you have also to take into account what you can buy for your money, the spending capacity. And while inequality regarding income is not such big as say in the US, it is a growing problem im Germany.
10:15 Germany had access to iron and coal. That was one of the reason why France tried to occupy the Ruhr region after WW I and after WW II proposed the Montan Union which became the precursor of the EU. But that resource are largely exploited and depleted since the 1970s, only less valued brown coal is left. Anyway steel and coal are not as economically important any more as they were in the first half of the last century. The most important resources to Germany nowadays are human resources and knowledge.
Regarding Marshal plan money the most important thing for German success was not to spend it all at once, but to put it in a public bank, the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (Reconstruction Loan Corporation, KfW) which redistributed the money as loans which were repaid so other loans could be given, and to this day organizes government-subsided loan programs e.g. for energetic refurbishment of houses, energy-efficient house construction, renewable energy projects and so on.

The average income means nothing…
In Frankfurt, for example, the average income is 4000€ but the streets are full of junkies
Because some bankers earn 100.000 a month the average income so high

The per capita income is only comparable if it is set in relation to the respective purchasing power of the country. Otherwise it is nothing meaningful. If, for example, everything in the USA was twice as expensive as in Germany (and that's not far off when it comes to groceries and rent), then Americans would have to earn twice as much to have the same standard. In addition, you have to compare everything with net income and not with gross income.
The calculations and statistics are rubbish.

Woah, Shae! Your comment section is an education in itself. It’s true, though. It’s about the distribution of wealth, just like in the Uk. People receiving benefits here called Harzt-4 absolutely cannot survive with any dignity.

"We" are f***ing rich. We lost 2 WWs and still beeing the richest. There is a lot of "old money" here. O.O 2000 years of history … try to compare this to 12 years of Nazis … 12 vs 2000 !

Germany got a MASSIVE discount on russian oil and gas (it was basically thrown at them as a present), which is why they were able to produce industrial goods at a minimum price, outcompeting evereone else. Also, they profited a lot by supplying weapons and military grade goods like tanks and submarines to countries, which the USA initiated conflicts in. Germany is a strategic partner in that regard. Also a lot of past economy was improved by bribes and whatever in other countries and abusing them. The WTO and European central Bank are effectively controlled by germany, which allows them to extort a lot of other countries politicians.
One can think about that how one likes, but I really despise how they conduct 'trade relations'…

Germany is not the richest country in europe. Swiss, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and Norway are MUCH richer. And Monaco and Vatikan State of course… 🙂 Probably Cyprus too.

the reason germany is so richt at this date is simply in the euro and the antiosocial "pseudosocial systhem" we have the biggest low income sector in europe( and thats the growing part of german economy ) and produce so cheap that that weaker economys cant compede countrys like greece for example cant produce as cheap as we can here and they have to use the same currency so there is no way to protect there own economy …. this was done by a bunch of antisocial right wing capitalist dumpfuck policitcans in the last 40 years
( and yes that includes the spd and green gouvernements)