Germany has long been a country with relatively low levels of inequality in the past. European countries in general have some of the lowest inequality numbers when compared to other OECD countries with similar GDP’s. This is mainly contributed to the fact that European countries tend to focus on wealth distribution and maintaining lower levels of wealth centralization than many other countries around the world. Until recently, Germany has been no different than its European counterparts with relatively low levels of inequality. Since the mid-1990s, however, income inequality has increased more sharply in Germany than in many other European countries. Now in Germany, we are beginning to see the rise of inequality in two different areas, wealth and income inequality, as well as gender and s