16 in Germany, both for heterosexual and homosexual relations.
There is no legal difference between both in german criminal law, ever since § 175 (which banned homosexual relations) was abolished in the 1960s or 70s.
Relationships can be criminalized when somebody has sex with a person under his custody.
Consentual sex with persons betwen 16 and 18 is not legal when a custodiary, educational or other such relation is there, like teacher-pupil relationships.
Interestingly, sex in the military is not as legally complicated as it is in the US.
In civil law, however, there is a huge difference between homosexual and heterosexual relations. Marriage is regulated in civil law code BGB while gay "marriage" is regulated in a new seperate "life partnership law".
Adoption is more complicated for "life partnerships" than for married couples.
Inheritance, legal succession and such are about equal, though
Funny is, until about 1970s or so we had a paragraph banning "coupling". Meaning you could go to jail if you gave an unmarried couple the opportunity to have sex by renting them a hotel room or so.
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