That means emergency.
And in case of emergency (whatever that might mean at this point), the German City and Municipal Association (Städte- und Gemeindebund) has recommended to its members that they should refuse to accept any more refugees. These communities are already overwehlmed as it is.
Funny how associations like the German City and Municipal Association are always the last ones to figure things out like this. It has been my impression, and the impression of everybody else I know here, that German communities have been in a state of emergency since 2015.
Der Städte- und Gemeindebund hat die ungleiche Verteilung von Flüchtlingen auf die Kommunen kritisiert. Dadurch würde die Integration der Menschen behindert.
Observing Hermann 
So claiming an emergency situation is the easy way of legally refusing to take in more refugees, isn’t it?
You would think so. But the first “emergency” made it necessary to let them in in the first place. At least according to those who called it an emergency. Either way, to refer to the quote, these emergencies are effective ways to erode “the safeguards of individual liberty” and circumvent the laws of the land.
Here is some good news, some vacancies in the population are opening up, there is more room for immigrants than you think.
https://www.bild.de/regional/hannover/messer/messer-attacken-in-ganz-deutschland-55206250.bild.html
Every day, man. It’s getting “rau” (rough) out there.
What do you think is the load bearing capacity of the German camel’s back?
Hard to say. But look at the party sitting in the Bundestag today – the second largest one. Angela Merkel’s creation.