The Germans requiring everything on paper with people witnessing signatures is of course rather silly, but whether it takes 3 weeks to form a company or 3 days is ultimately not going to be a real difference. I think the thing here is more that American companies have trouble handling non American companies and hence the flip. I sold a Dutch B.V. to an American company once except they didn't want to buy the company because they didn't understand it and instead we ended up selling the assets and taking a tax hit.
Also if you are in the EU you can just start an Estonian company and run that in Germany
Also if you are in the EU you can just start an Estonian company and run that in Germany