I had not even realized that there was a ban of localbitcoins in Germany, so I googled it, and it appears that the ban began in about December 2014.  Wow!   I had considered a lot of the western european countries as a bit more receptive to bitcoin, yet I understand that there is all kinds of contradictions when it comes to the actions of various governments (in other words, hard to keep track of what everyone is doing even when consistently attempting to follow relevant bitcoin news developments).