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Berlin / Leipzig (dpa / sn) - With 3,418 enforcement orders, more evictions of apartments and business premises were initiated in Saxony in 2019 than in the previous year.
In 2018 there were 3,300, according to a response from the Federal Ministry of Justice to a question from the left-wing Bundestag member Caren Lay.
The faction's housing policy spokeswoman called for evictions to be prohibited in principle.
In 2019 there were at least around 50,000 enforcement orders nationwide.
"The cruelty of being thrown out of the apartment becomes life threatening in the Corona winter," said Lay.
Not only is it cold, there is also far too little distance and protection against the corona virus in collective accommodation.
For the time of the pandemic, the federal government must suspend evictions from apartments, she said.
Municipalities should make it easier for the homeless to use vacant hotels and apartments.
During the time of the first Corona restrictions in spring, tenants could not be terminated if they were unable to pay their rent due to the pandemic.
However, they had to make up for the payment later.
The regulation came into force in April and expired at the end of June.
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Specifically, according to the Ministry of Justice, 49 208 enforcement orders were reported for 2019.
Not included are Schleswig-Holstein - where there are no figures yet - and Bavaria - where they are no longer collected.
In 2018, without the two federal states, there were 52,260 orders and in 2017 just under 51,850. It is not recorded whether bailiffs actually carried out the eviction orders.
In most federal states, the number of orders fell compared to 2018, in Berlin by around 13 percent, in Bremen by around 11 percent and in Saarland by around 10 percent.
In Saxony, however, there were around four percent more orders than in 2018, in Thuringia it was around nine percent more.
Enforcement orders from 2015 to 2018 (page 39)