While not privacy focused per say, if you're ok with a shared host uberspace is the best company I have found! Green, pay what you want, homegrown, German, private
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Second uberspace. There's also Manitu, a green hoster from Germany, and Hostsharing, a hosting coop.
Privacy partly depends on the jurisdiction the VPS is hosted under. Currently, European GDPR is what gives the most default protection by law, so I'd choose a host inside the EU.
Book a vm in a cooperative where you control the board as a member of the cooperative. In Germany there is Hostsharing, a cooperative founded in 2000 dedicated to green hosting, open source, privacy and security.
How can I find a list of hosting co-ops I can participate in? I am in the US but the idea seems cool. Would I be able to participate in a German one? I am actually not very opposed to a bit of extra latency.
njal.la and 1984hosting have very good reputation in our circles. I would add that for most cases when a strong Nation State adversary is not part of your threat model, a proper workers cooperative is even better.
OVH, also other suggestions already mentioned are good.