Survey Says.....

From the DW:

“Fire department tops German survey; football and cigarettes lag”

Thousands of Germans have ranked the fire department as the institution which contributes the most to the public good. The Catholic Church, banks, football organizations and Marlboro cigarettes did not do so well.  Germans consider the fire department, police, constitutional court and large aid organizations as institutions contributing the most to the public good. That is according to the 2019 Public Value Atlas released on Tuesday by the Leipzig HHL Graduate School of Management in cooperation with the Center of Leadership and Values in Society at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. In the fourth study since the first was published in 2015, around 12,000 people were asked about the contribution of 137 companies and organizations for the common good. Ranking number one was the fire department, followed by the civil protection force 'Technisches Hilfswerk' (BTH) and the German Red Cross. The federal government controls the BTH, 99% of whose 79,514 members are volunteers. Police and the constitutional court were also ranked in the top ten, suggesting Germans maintain trust in institutions supporting the rule of law.

^ It’s nice to see the Germans trust the Fire Department (and the Police and Constitutional Court.) Not sure why they would trust football (soccer) organizations or cigarette companies. I wonder what a similar survey would find in the US, Canada, etc. ^

https://www.dw.com/en/fire-department-tops-german-survey-football-and-cigarettes-lag/a-48820278