In Germany, the term "Engineer" is protected by law. You need an Informatics (or some other engineery field) university degree to call yourself one. There are m

In Germany, the term "Engineer" is protected by law. You need an Informatics (or some other engineery field) university degree to call yourself one. There are many IT professionals that do not have one, but have one of the state-approved 3-year apprenticeships instead, and can not call themselves engineers.