Comment by Xylakant

> You also don't "pay" 25k, it's more like your GmbH has to have constant reserves of 25k used in case of an insolvency.

It’s not even that. The GmbH can use that money to buy things or pay for services and entirely use them. There’s no guarantee that there’s any money at all in a GmbH - the only guarantee you have is that someone invested 25k at some point in the past.