Germans tend to be monster in organisation. I lived in Luxembourg for 5 years, this country could give me the opportunity to compare Germany to France and germans to french as I did meet them more or less every single days.
Germans (everything I say is to be taken a sa general rules with, of course, exceptions) are amazingly disciplined and VERY rigorous. Every German that I did meet were almost all speaking french very well or did learn it in a very short and scary frame of time. When you look at their penal code, it is directly represented; There is far less grey zone in their penal code than in the french or english one for instance, these folks have a long long history of organisation and dissecting everything to the root before doing anything. IT is also represented in their language; the german language is so coded that it is much more difficult to make a misinterpretation compared to let's say french or english.