The report has been shot down as non-sensical, but the Austrian Professor, Gerald Hörhan, holds to his findings in the report and declares “Munich is the most industrious while Gelsenkirchen is the laziest”.
The professor who used information collected from the Institute of Economics in Köln, based his report on the
- Income
- Gross Product
- Unemployment rate
- Number of days each inhabitant didn’t go to work
- Amount of private debt
- Number of school drop-outs
According to his new book, “Null Bock Komplott”, here’s the list from the laziest to the most industrious cities in Germany:
- Gelsenkirchen
- Herne
- Duisburg
- Halle (Saale)
- Berlin
- Hamm
- Oberhausen
- Dortmund
- Mönchengladbach
- Krefeld
- Wuppertal
- Leipzig
- Lübeck
- Rostock
- Essen
- Hagen
- Magdeburg
- Kiel
- Kassel
- Bochum
- Saarbrücken, Regionalverband
- Aachen, Städteregion
- Erfurt
- Ludwigshafen am Rhein
- Chemnitz
- Osnabrück
- Bielefeld
- Oldenburg
- Solingen
- Bremen
- Hannover, Region
- Mülheim an der Ruhr
- Mannheim
- Köln
- Braunschweig
- Freiburg im Breisgau
- Dresden
- Leverkusen
- Wiesbaden
- Nürnberg
- Bonn
- Düsseldorf
- Augsburg
- Karlsruhe
- Hamburg
- Mainz
- Stuttgart
- Frankfurt am Main
- Münster
- München
Because the list caused an uproar, the Economist shared an opinion poll on his site to allow people to choose which city they thought was the laziest. According to the opinion poll, Berlin came first as the laziest. Below the list from the poll: