[1] Franz von Papen, for instance, cited it in 1932 as Frederick the Great's "classic expression".
"[4] Related German proverbs are Ordnung ist das halbe Leben,[4] literally "order is half of life", humorously extended in the antiproverb und Unordnung die andere Hälfte ("and disorder the other half").
Similarly, a proverb says Wer Ordnung hält, ist nur zu faul zum Suchen meaning "he who keeps order is just too lazy to spend his time searching".
[6] There is an Ordnungsamt (Public Office for Order, Code enforcement) in every German municipality and city.
The proverb forms part of the title of an early 2000s German television sitcom, "Hausmeister Krause – Ordnung muss sein", set in a Cologne housing development and starring Tom Gerhardt as Hausmeister Krause, a janitor with an authoritarian streak.