You can't be punished for breaking out of prison. If caught, you will have to finish your sentence though, and if you were eligible for early release before your escape, you surely won't be any longer. Furthermore, you can still be punished for crimes committed during your escape, like assaulting guards, or bribing them, or damaging property like doors or windows.
Probably not exactly what you are looking for, but these are my personal go to examples for hilarious laws in good ol' Schermany...
Per law, it's forbidden to detonate a nuclear weapon. It's at least 5 years in Prison.
According to state law in Hesse, burglars could still be sentenced to death until 2018, but since this was already prohibited by federal law, the law was no longer applied for a long time. It has since been abolished, but it's still funny.
Driving blind is forbidden.
You're allowed to drive naked - getting out of the car however requires you to be clothed.
If you fall asleep at work and injure yourself as a result, for example because you fell off a chair, it's considered to be an accident at work and the insurance is liable.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, the following applies: If a civil servant dies while travelling on business, the business trip is deemed to have ended.
One thing you can do in Germany but can't in the US is "drinking in public". Bring your beer, sit down at the market, park or just walk around while drinking it.
A very common thing, specially in cities with a high amount of students or the like is the so called "Wegbier" (on-the-way-beer) where you go with friends from your house to i.e. a pub and on that way you have a beer to bridge the gap so to say.
I got stopped for this in Lithuania and Canada and basically learned the hard way that this is not common elsewhere.
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