I am using 2.2 Snapshot and the error still exists. Moving everything to *.things file does not work either. (including deletion of all things)
This in combination with the auto-deleting all my things described https://community.openhab.org/t/homematic-homegear-problems/35077 is getting ugly for my installation.
I am moving to 2.1 stable now, hopefully this is usable again.