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AFAIK the actual reason why „Software Engineer“ is ok is because it’s in English.

Pretending to be an „Ingenieur“ is illegal unless you have the paper to back it up. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be a university paper, there are older trade papers that also work.

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I thought so too, but I lost that argument a couple of years ago and was persuaded that "Ingenieur" alone can't be challenged.

Unfortunately I don't remember the details. I'd be happy to learn I was right after all;-)

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