> You are signing paper that claims you never left Germany!!!

No you aren't. You are signing a paper that says a managerial decision about the shares of the company happened in Germany. Where you live does not matter. You just have to do a board meeting, and be physically present in Germany during the meeting.

In fact, you likely want to keep any proof of your travel from a different country, which makes it obvious to the authorities that you don't spend all your time there.

There's multiple variants though, this is just one of them. You can also pay someone to manage the shares (and of course contractually bind them to not do anything without permission).

Edit: Also, to be clear, you don't need to manage the company from Germany. You only need to manage the holding company from Germany, where the only managerial decision is related to the shares themselves.

If your company bylaws are set up properly, you can do board meetings via video calls just fine.

Very few acts require actual presence in the country. What is required is that you can, at any time, enter Germany to perform those acts - which shouldn’t be a problem if you are German Citizen.

Someone should tell the German government about the internet. Who cares where you physically are?

Do you own and manage company in germany? If yes you are tax resident, if not you pay exit tax. Winwin.

This what ifs do not really work in tax laws. The question is, if your current current structure and tax law interpretation will hold in 8 years. After germany had new election, new socialist goverment changed and it is trying to milk everyone.

Some flight ticket from lufthanza are not going to save you!