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Speaking to an audience including local politicians and businessmen, Jens Weidmann conceded that the overall outlook for the euro zone remained weak, referring to low price inflation, and that the European Central Bank had therefore been right to take a generous stance.
"The expansionary monetary policy is fundamentally appropriate," he said. "And it is understandable that the ECB's governing council has discussed additional measures and will continue to discuss this."
But whatever measures may be taken on top of ECB schemes to give banks cheap credit and buy rebundled loans, Weidmann cautioned against any buying of government debt.
"As well as the legal limits, the buying of state bonds would create wrong incentives, in particular encouraging indebtedness of euro zone countries," he said.
Weidmann has clashed with Mario Draghi over the ECB president's plans to grow the ECB's balance sheet by giving further cheap credit to banks and buying up other debt including reparcelled loans.