To become a german civil servant with the golden "beamter" status (civil servant)- you have to pass a physical AND must have an acceptable BMI (teachers, office workers, army, police, paper pushers...). Until then, you are just a lowly state employee (with less pay and benefits). I had several young teaching colleagues sweating over their weight- some had to lose more than 60lbs and were looking a different diets (was? kein schnitzel?)