The Bundestag is bigger than ever, but first-hand entrepreneurial expertise is still scarce.
The number of MPs who have gained their own experience as entrepreneurs and state this as a job title is manageable at around 50.
There are also freelancers.
They also know what the risk of self-employment feels like, even though their activity is regulated by the state and thus more protected from competition.
So there should be at least a few voices in the new parliament who enliven and shape economic policy debates with market knowledge gained in practice.
Economic policy that increases widespread prosperity will of course not depend on the immediate availability of entrepreneurial minds in the Bundestag.
What is more important is what the outgoing President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) pointed out in the constituent session: Each member does not represent a group, but the people.
It is his job to openly form his own opinion on all legal projects.
In the Reichstag, the trained master craftsman votes on the reform of long-term care insurance, as does the caregiver on corporate tax rates.
The decisive factor is the willingness to first listen, including “lobbies”, and then to weight the arguments.
A clear compass is particularly helpful for the upcoming difficult decisions on the climate-friendly and digital transformation of the country in times of tight budgets.
A market economy orientation is still offered to MPs, whether new or old, by Ludwig Erhard's classic “Prosperity for All”.
There you will find the unchanged current warning not to pay attention to distribution problems first.
Because: "The solution does not lie in the division, but in the multiplication of the national product."
It is also worth looking up the division of labor between the state and the economy with the first Minister for Economic Affairs.
He advises politicians to give entrepreneurs freedom and not want to regulate everything - but also puts the economy in its place, which calls for help from the state "when it fits."