@teto @nike @sickburnbro nothing to do with envy, its just a "Tugend" (virtue) to be a "Macher" (doer / busybody ), compared to being a "Nichtsnutz" (good-for-nothing), we used to value mastery, excellence and accomplishment in Germany. People don't hate accomplished I.e. smart people, they are respected. Reaching your full potential was very important for a german.
Prots just excel in having full control over your worldly desires / being very strict, because acutally protestantism lifestyle is hard af, since you are forced to follow a "bibletreu" lifestyle, meaning you have to follow all the fucking bible laws, know and study them of course yourself and not just show up to mass once a week.
Even tho in south-west germany catholics (more the elite/academic types) can be just as strict, compared to prots. They even say "we are not catholics" there, meaning "we are not that strict".
So... I wouldn't even say its a religion thing, just german love for perfection.

A swabian e.g. someone like Ernst Jünger isn't really that different compared to a prussian by mentality.

Prussians just play the Scapegoat now, which modern germans use as a sacrifice so they can whitewash themselves from the german past.