Civil Servants' Association: 631,000 Public Sector Positions Vacant

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The German Civil Service Confederation demands that the state should create 631,000 additional posts. The DBB chairman is not afraid of a possible AfD Prime Minister.

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The state lacks hundreds of thousands of employees, and the trend is rising. The German Civil Service Association also announces resistance should the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt want to get rid of officials illegally.

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In an interview with the FAZ, dbb head Volker Geyer criticises that the policy is exacerbating the shortage of staff in the public service by constantly increasing the number of tasks. A dbb union inquiry has shown that the state currently lacks 631,000 employees. In order to prevent a further deterioration of the state's capacity to perform, the public employers must act now, the dbb federal chairman Volker Geyer demanded on 27 August 2026: "

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The German Civil Service Federation (DBB) estimates that the state currently lacks 631,000 employees to fulfill its duties. This figure is the result of the federation's annual survey of its 41 member unions, as reported by the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung." Last year, the DBB estimated a shortage of 600,000 public sector employees. The DBB identifies a particular need for additional staff in healthcare and elderly care (125,200 positions), s…