On jail – an interview with the German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach in Der Spiegel:

‘DER SPIEGEL: What will happen if people shirk that duty? Are you thinking about heavy fines or even jail sentences? Lauterbach: No. No one is going to be sent to jail. But the imposition of fines will be inevitable.
DER SPIEGEL: What kind of fines are we talking about? Lauterbach: Psychologists and economists must be consulted about when punitive measures start to have an effect.
DER SPIEGEL: What happens if someone doesn’t pay? Lauterbach: Then the fines must be increased considerably. But I am sure that just by announcing a general vaccination requirement that we will already reach a lot of people.’

Read the interview here.

The vaccination rate in Germany isn’t spectacular high and especially in some parts of the former East Germany the resistance against vaccination is virulent.
We always thought that vaccinations have become politicized, with all unpleasant consequences. Tell me your party affiliation, I’ll tell you your position on vaccinations.

But I believe that resistance against the state was simmering and the vaccines became the easiest tool to show the powers that be that some people felt that it isn’t their state. That they want another state.
This hatred is much more dangerous than distrust of doctors, science and vaccines. This hatred is the major drive of the distrust.

It’s the state, not the vaccines.