If you could start a business in germany, what would it be?

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maliki001

coffee shop or bistro, etc.

Bernd

1) McDonalds or Burger King
2) to many good car dealers/garages etc.
3) Solar panels, Photo Voltaic, Thermo panels, any service providing future power supply (has to be enviromental safe).
4) wind energy supply, wind-mills, generators and more, but you have to be top of the bill.
5) wellness hotel with all kind of service to make you feel good (Turkish bath, Ayuveda massage and so on)

t_maia2000

An "Apotheke" (pharmacy). I used to work in a tax office and I swear, a pharmacy in Germany is a license to print money.

The only downside is that in order to open one you need to pass a strictly regulated government exam after studying for at least 4 years at a German university.

http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/studium/studienangebot/staatsexamen/st-pharm.html

Fenris Troll Ripper JPA RT ATL Â®

I DID already once when I lived there in 1993-1994. I ran privately a tutoring service to anyone needing help with English. At the time in Weimar it was a much needed resource still being so soon after the wall came down. I earned enough weekly by teaching three students three times a week for an hour and I charged 15DM an hour at the time and it got me through with only 90-120dm a week extra!

Today I would charge that in euro of course. The other way I made money was Teaching Karate. I was part of an Internationally known Karate organization and taught as a guest at one of the schools and taught privately as a result that also earned me an extra 150DM a week. so if you have a skill you can market and sell you can make it possibly, otherwise you need a Visa and to get a job because unemployment is fairly high over there I understand at the moment!! So to get a Visa is not going to be easy.

Good luck

fliege52000

Not a car business, there is so many of them.
Nice Cafe, nice fashion store with good clothes, shoes and accessories, kids store, restaurant good one with special food, club/bar with life music, jazz club, book store with cafe in it. Is that enough... ???

julie travelcaster

I'd be a tour guide. One of those folks who guides groups of tourists around. Indeed if I could spend a few months guiding English speaking tourist around Germany, and a few months a year guiding German speaking tourists in my home town, Washington, DC, that would be fantastic.

I am actually considering this as a part-time post retirement career.

Alwin E

Hi from Germany.

I'm doing international market research, and I'm a writer for local newspapers, here in Germany.

Beng a car dealer in Germany is not so good an idea; but one of my relatives is a good car repairsman. He does that on a private scheme, and he's excellent at it. But the retail business is not very profitable in Germany these days.

Craftsmanship, however, still is appreciated. If you have handicraft skills, a good mason or carpenter can earn good money in Germany, by helping the rich decorate their houses. It might even help that you are NOT German.

At a more "subcultural" level, good musicians are appreciated. It's not like it was in the 1980ies; but still, if you can play the guitar and sing, I think you could make a living on a rather low level, but you could make it.

The point is, if I was American, I would start a rather different kind of business from what I have now, as a German. "Animal psychologist", that's quite great. Talking to mad dogs and cats. "Yoga teacher" or "Reiki consultant", yes, very fine. And "Polarity Energy Balancing" really gives me the kick...

You see, there are opportunities alot. All you need to be is of foreign origin, and not of Muslim belief. Hindus and Buddhists will be alright accepted.

KlÃ¤nkÃ¼

Hi there from DÃ¼sseldorf, Germany.

You wouldn't be that successful here in Germany if u would try to enter the car-market. We're an export-Nation, so at least u could try to manage the export or something like that.

Tho if you wanna be real successful, u'd better try to settle down as an advertising-agency or doing marketing bhusiness. That's what going pretty well here. If you, for example, take a look at the Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr-area, which used to be Europe's biggest industrial area like coal-mines, steel etc.), this area is incredibly fast turning into a so called brain-factory. So I assume marketing would go pretty well.

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