Emanuel Boeminghaus wrote that the integrated debts of German municipalities would have amounted to 378.9 billion euros by the end of 2025, 9.9 percent more than at the beginning of the year. In the previous year, the increase was 6.3 percent. On average, each resident of the surveyed municipalities incurred debts amounting to 4,907 euros; at the same time, the municipal core and extra budgets recorded a record deficit of 31.9 billion euros in 2025. Hesse's municipalities had the highest debt level at 6,763 euros per capita, followed by Saarland with 6,408 euros. Debts grew particularly strongly in Lower Saxony (13.3 percent) and Baden-Württemberg (13.1 percent). The debts of the municipal core budgets rose by 15.5 percent. Boeminghaus pointed to a Destatis publication from October 29, 2026, and described the growth of debts as a warning signal. https://t.co/9zSG3CUa6M #Kommunen #Schulden #Finanzkrise (translated)

