With all the current labour issues in German aviation we can only hope this was an individual drama not something even more sinister in an industry where the individual has to often finance his own expensive education (contrary to medecine etc).
Not only the labour issues, but also their Stasi-like surveillance of pilots humble-minded disposition by a mechanism called ZUP. If a personal drama is to come true such general suppression has shown its absolute ineffectiveness. I see a lot of similar thinking towards ruling the world by law force around me and I keep telling that is is not working.