The aim of this paper is to analyze the current state of informatics education in primary schools in all German federal states, to compare it internationally and to identify development potentials.

The world is permeated by informatics, even the youngest children encounter informatics systems and the respective phenomena. Consequently, even primary school children must acquire the necessary informatics competencies to act in this world in a self-determined manner. A study on the integration of informatics education in European education systems by the Committee on European Computing Education showed that in 2017, none of the German states provided informatics competencies in primary school. In the following years, as the study Reviewing Computational Thinking in Compulsory Education (2022) shows, progress towards more informatics education in primary schools has been made in various European countries. For example, in Sweden, informatics content has been integrated into the curricula. However, the current situation in Germany was not analyzed in this study.