I'm in Germany too.
The health system has far better funding than many countries, and although it's a health insurance based system everyone receives the same level of medical care (unlike the US, for instance). The hospitals are functioning at nowhere near critical care capacity right now. Hospital infrastructure is essentially fab. And better basic healthcare means that people with underlying conditions are probably already receiving excellent treatment for them, which makes them less vulnerable to succumbing to viruses.
Lots of the cases reported so far seem to be of younger people who have relatively mild symptoms and can be treated at home in isolation. Of the 28 confirmed cases in Berlin so far the vast majority don't need hospital care (the district where each infected person comes from is published each day, along with where they're being treated). That will keep intensive care beds free should the need arise.
The main Berlin hospital for epidemiology quickly started testing everyone who came along with viral /respiratory symptoms, even if they weren't classic coronavirus symptoms. People were tested for flu AND corona - the first case in Berlin actually had atypical symptoms and was only discovered via the precautionary test. So it was discovered in the city early on and his contacts were traced (by which time he'd already passed it on to a few others).
There's definitely a certain amount of luck involved that it hasn't hit an old people's home yet.
A huge effort is being made to trace and contain contacts with infected people. I read that anyone who breaks a quarantine and knowingly infects someone else can be fined up to 450,000 euros, which is fair enough. But also employees often have better legal rights so are more likely to continue being paid while in quarantine, which makes them less likely to take risks to pay the rent, I think.
The biggest change of all - people have stopped shaking hands! Once that really kicks in it's going to reduce transmissions radically. I'd be delighted if this were the death of the handshake.