In addition to wine and sparkling wine, for which Rhineland-Palatinate is internationally renowned, industry and tourism are key pillars of the state’s economy. With an export quota of 46 per cent, Rhineland-Palatinate ranks among the largest exporters in Germany. In 2013, the gross domestic product per employed person was €64,900. With an unemployment rate of 5.1 per cent, the state ranks third lowest after Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.
However, every medal has two sides: great economic strength inevitably attracts crime. Our detective agency in Rhineland-Palatinate is responsible, among other things, for investigating and preventing such offences: +49 651 2094 0060.
In 2014, 352,735 foreigners lived in Rhineland-Palatinate, partly on the 17 US Air Force bases and military facilities. The main employers in the state are industry (chemicals, vehicle and mechanical engineering), agriculture and forestry (wine production), tourism, and the service sector.
Rhineland-Palatinate is also rightly considered an important media location. In addition to ZDF in Mainz, the regional office of the private broadcaster Sat.1 is based in Ludwigshafen. Furthermore, SWR operates a television and several radio stations in the state.
Thanks to excellent infrastructure with two airports (Frankfurt-Hahn Airport and the former US and Royal Canadian Air Base Zweibrücken), connections to 13 motorways and several hundred railway stations, Rhineland-Palatinate is a central transport hub between Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and France, valued by many commuters.
However, not only tourists and commuters exploit this, but criminals also take advantage of the border proximity. In economic crime, for example, assets and fraud offences such as embezzlement, infidelity-related fraud, counterfeit money and insolvency offences – which make up 18.4 per cent of all crime – can be executed using accounts abroad. For this reason, our business detectives from Rhineland-Palatinate regularly operate cross-border, specialising in investigations in Luxembourg: kontakt@kurtz-detektei-luxemburg.com.
Kurtz Detective Agency Trier offers, among other services, the following business investigations: