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I don’t think that explains the whole situation, or at least I don’t believe that all but Germany have incompetent leaders, have bad experts, and lack coördination.

Yep, that's the story the media here tells. Of course. "We are so exceptional, we Germans."

In reality, we had just four times more ventilators available than any of the larger countries around us, so we never hit the "no treatment possible" situation.

No, that can't be it. Ventilators is a last resort kind of measure, most people under ventilators die either way, so they can't affect numbers much. I suspect Germany is just testing more and earlier than others.

No idea where you got that information.

Testing in Germany started very late, but was then increased rapidly.

As of today, Germany has done 1,317,887 tests. The US: 3,029,979 tests, Italy: 1,073,689 tests. (Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) So not exceptionally more than others.

Testing wouldn't really affect the sort of excess mortality numbers this site reports.

The response wasn't very coordinated in the beginning, but we were lucky enough to start a lockdown in a timely fashion. So far we also managed to keep the disease mostly away from the most vulnerable groups.