Gerd Scharmberg, the mayor of the 34-year-old's home town of Born - on the Mecklenburg peninsula of Darss - said local residents were shocked by the news from Nigeria.
"There is enormous sense of commiseration here locally," he said.
The engineer had visited Born only eight weeks ago, Scharmberg added.
Previous incident
Last October, gunmen shot dead a German construction expert in Nigeria's southwestern state of Ogun while Julius Berger employees were being driven to work.
A second German, a sub-contractor to Julius Berger, was abducted by the gunmen and released a week later.
Julius Berger Nigeria Plc has operated in Nigeria since 1965, working mainly on infrastructure projects, and has a staff of 18,000 personnel.
Its German branch, Julius Berger International (JBI), is based in Wiesbaden and has 600 employees assigned in Nigeria.
In 2012, Julius Berger Nigeria began a literacy campaign within Nigerian secondary schools.
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