Ok but we would like to know if these are isolated cases to people speaking german. Obviously, if I was a Chief pilot of an italian airline and a TRI of an Italian TRTO show me 2 type rated pilots, 1 german and 1 italian, given the same skills, I'd take the italian.
So, I think that this is the same thing there; aboveall if the TRTO has only german airlines contacts. It would be different if the TRTO had contacts with various international airlines.
Davide