Using Google-translate + some tweaks by myself:
"What does political Provider mean?
Even if JPBerlin is a political provider, that does not mean that we ourselves are politically active.
We give politically and socially active organizations the technical infrastructure they need to enable them to work with modern tools such as groupware systems or mailing lists. They should be able to focus on their content rather than vexed with the technology and its implementation.
The JPBerlin itself represents no own political content or opinions. We see ourselves only as a reservoir and implements of the assets from [politically] left, environmental and social areas. And so it is not surprising that we accommodate almost all well-known organizations, foundations, communities and other groups from those circles. Of course we also have non-politically-motivated individuals and organizations as customers.
Our customers have no relationships to each other. The same applies to our position in relation to our clients and their views and work.
Our only position is to be clearly distinct from the [politically] right edge!!"
[1] https://www.jpberlin.de/hilfe/allgemein/was-bedeutet-politis...
If this company has this history, or even worse, it recognizes itself as "kind of left-wing" (and not funded by a left wing party), you never know how people see that. We should have freedom of speech, yet you can't say certain things publicly.
Ah, I don't understand the downvotes in my parent comment. It would be great if people could clarify that.
The guys behind jpberlin are = https://www.heinlein-support.de/
you can see some of their clientwork here:
https://www.heinlein-support.de/consulting/referenzen
https://www.heinlein-support.de/referenzen
hope this helps
[0]: https://posteo.de/en
I decided to go for mailbox because 1) I know that Germany at the moment has still one of the best regulations about data protection (although I fear this is going to change in the next few years), 2) it provides some features others don't (like protonmail, and startmail). It was worth a try at least, so I decided to use the 30 days trial account.
It looked really good and promising: nice UI, clear documentation, cool domain name if you don't want to use your own. It provides also Office-like, calendar, and storage features. Therefore, I made up my mind, and I was determined to become one of their paying customers. So, I put 12 EUR(1 EUR/month) on the account. A few hours later I found out[0] that mailbox.org is offered by a politically motivated provider called JPBerlin [1]. I sent the cancellation request, and so far my account is still on hold - I could revoke the cancellation, though. An email received after the cancellation request says "please allow us a couple of days". Sure. It's just they took 1 EUR from the account, although I had the cancellation request sent like 10 days before the end of the trial period.
In the end, I would like to say that as a service it looks promising. However, until they stop with their political involvement, I think, not many people will use it.
[0]: http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=68527 [1]: https://www.jpberlin.de