Eastern Germany faces more serious and immediate workforce shortages, as an older population moves into retirement and fewer young people are around to replace them, the head of Germany’s Federal Employment Agency said on Friday. A major exodus of young people from the former communist East Germany who headed west in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall has continued to shape a demographic divide in the reunified country 35 years later, said Andrea Nahles, the agency’s chairwoman. The former East Germany is older and has a more acute shortage of working-aged residents than the former West Ge…