the german economy grew modestly in the second quarter beating expectations of stagnation amid high inflation and uncertainty stemming from russias invasion of ukraine according to a second estimate for the period released thursday by german statistics office destatis germanys gross domestic product grew by an adjusted 01 from the previous period the figure was raised from the first estimate which showed the economy stagnating economists polled by the wall street journal had also forecast stagnation gdp expanded 17 on year in the second quarter on a calendar and priceadjusted basis above the 14 forecast by economists polled by the journal and the first estimate