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According to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, around 4.9 million people were employed in the civil service in 2019. Of these, around 1.7 million were civil servants and judges, 170,000 were soldiers and three million were public employees.
Also don't forget the yearly cost of windows itself. (And keep in mind that even German tanks run on Windows.)
Edit:
According to https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/it-open-source-bundesregierung-kleine-anfrage-100.html
The German government pays 6 billion per year to Microsoft and Oracle.
Thats 70€ per year, per citizen, or 1200€ per year per civil service worker.
Thats a lot of wasted money when you consider that in a tightly specced environment Linux runs fine just fine for free and the money would be spend on local support companies like SUSE instead of overseas.