[Mainz06]

I'm from belgium and i was wondering how lyme is recognized in germany.

it depends :-)
I guess you mean medical recognition?
Standard is an ELISA test and if this is positive and your doctor knows a little bit of lyme desease (in german we usually talk about Borreliose) you need a western blot to get the diagnosis and a theraphy with antibiotica.

The second possibility is, you have a (antibodies) positive lumbalpunction, then you will be treated with antibiotica IV and get a diagnosis called "Neuroborreliose"

But if you don't have positive antibody tests you need one of the doctors of the list dnight shows you.

In what ways do you get help from the goverment or healthinsurance?

if you fullfill the conditions above you get everything (diagnostics and treatment) paid by healthinsurance

The goverment play no role in this. (although there are a couple of activities, petitions and some politcians who are personally involved, try to help to do more science to help us)