FIFTH SECTION DECISION Application no. 35285/16 Hans Burkhard NIX against Germany The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 13 March 2018 as a Chamber composed of: Erik Møse, President, Angelika Nußberger, Yonko Grozev, Síofra O’Leary, Mārtiņš Mits, Lәtif Hüseynov, Lado Chanturia, judges, and Claudia Westerdiek, Section Registrar, Having regard to the above application lodged on 14 June 2016, Having deliberated, decides as follows: THE FACTS 1. The applicant, Mr Hans Burkhard Nix, is a German national who was born in 1954 and lives in Munich. A. The circumstances of the case 2. The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows. 1. Background to the case 3. The origin of the dispute lies in correspondence between a staff member of the local branch of the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit, hereinafter the “employment office”) and the