There's also the fact that the Berlin split forced a whole lot of rather successful German companies to relocate from East to somewhere else in the West. Sieme

There's also the fact that the Berlin split forced a whole lot of rather successful German companies to relocate from East to somewhere else in the West. Siemens was originally started and HQ'ed in Berlin, until the wall split happened, making them relocate to the south. Afaik this is the case for a couple of other rather successfull Western German companies.