Sorry, but your post to me seems to be at least a bit of a personal rant.
A lot of neocapitalistic concepts have been implemented during the last decade and have crippled our social security system and eroded workers rights. The dreaded subcontracted labour is on the rise. Welfare/social subsidy levels have been ruled inhumane by our courts. Our highest court has ruled that our voting system is against our contitution. Twice. What an embarrassment.
Well I think it rather depends on your point of view.
The social security system was crippled 5 decades ago, when chancellor Konrad Adenauer, for political gains, transformed it from a capital-backed insurance-system into todays system where ever fewer workers have to pay for more benificiaries.
The workers in Germany till this day enjoy one of the most protective rights in the world. So protective, that it almost proved to be disastrous when Germany was Europes "sick-man" in the late 90s and it's labor market deemed to be inflexible to compete with Eastern-Europe and Asia.
Both, the workers rights and the social security system are examples of what the author might has in mind when writing about "the German model": That the German society is able to reach a consensus were the parties involved agree to pain. Don't forget that it were the unions and the lefties (Social-Democrats and Greens) who worked on and implemented the needed reforms.