Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, you are wrong. The ECB does not have to balance interests. It‘s independent and it‘s job is monetary stability, not economic interests. It‘s also not widely accepted that it‘s in Germanys interest. In fact it is against it. Germans hold most of their wealth in cash. They received interest for it. That‘s hundereds of billions now gone. Germans are poorer than most other Europeans (even than Spaniards and Italians)…
> Germans are poorer than most other Europeans (even than Spaniards and Italians) er, citation needed? Or is this due to the former DDR?
https://jakubmarian.com/wealth-per-capita-by-country-in-euro...
It's describing the median wealth based on a Credit Suisse Wealth Report
You can also find these results in the ING research ("Surprising differences between countries", page 14ff): https://www.ezonomics.com/pdf/Household-wealth-in-Europe.pdf
"When dividing the Eurozone into a group of countries often labeled as ‘core’11and a group of Southern-European12countries, it turns out that Southern-European households are more capable of keeping up their standard of living compared with those living in the core countries (see figure 18)"
"It is striking that German households have fewer assets than Eurozone households have on average. They not only own relatively little real estate(see figure 20)but also hold less financial assets than is common in the Eurozone(see figure 21)."