Merkel is the exception to the rule, though. Here is an article on the composition of the German parliament: http://www.dw.de/few-entrepreneurs-in-new-german-

Merkel is the exception to the rule, though. Here is an article on the composition of the German parliament: http://www.dw.de/few-entrepreneurs-in-new-german-parliament/a-17170809 http://www.dw.de/few-entrepreneurs-in-new-german-parliament/... More than half are administrators (probably civil servants i think), teachers, lawyers.