Germans facts

Germans (German: Deutsche) are a germanic people in Central Europe. They live mostly in Germany (60 million) and as ethnic minority in Belgium, Denmark, Poland and France. Total live about 100 million Germans in the world. Germans speak today the German language (Hochdeutsch = Standard German) and diverse dialects as Low German, Middle German and Upper German.

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  • Germanic limes

    Roman limes and modern boundaries.

  • West Germanic Kingdoms 460

    Germanic Kingdoms in Europe c. 500 AD

  • HRR 10Jh

    Extent of Holy Roman Empire in 972 (red line) and 1035 (red dots) with Kingdom of Germany marked in blue

  • Wernerprokla

    18 January 1871: The proclamation of the German Empire in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles. Bismarck appears in white. The Grand Duke of Baden stands beside Wilhelm, leading the cheers. Crown Prince Friedrich, later Friedrich III, stands on his father's right.

  • Political map of central Europe showing the 26 areas that became part of the united German Empire in 1891. Germany based in the northeast, dominates in size, occupying about 40% of the new empire.

    The German Empire of 1871–1918. By excluding the German-speaking part of the multinational Austrian Empire, this geographic construction represented the Kleindeutsche Lösung ("Lesser German solution")

  • Lange diercke sachsen deutschtum erde

    Nearly 100 million people around the world were of German ancestry in 1930

  • Herder by Kügelgen

    Johann Gottfried Herder

  • German ancestry by country

    German diaspora

  • Printing3 Walk of Ideas Berlin

    Walk of Ideas, Berlin, a sculpture honoring Johannes Gutenberg and some of Germany's most influential writers

  • Immanuel Kant (painted portrait)

    German philosopher Immanuel Kant

  • Diane Kruger at 2008 Venice Film Festival-01

    Diane Krüger, 2008

  • Martin Luther, 1529

    Portrait of Martin Luther

  • AllianzArenaSunset

    The Allianz Arena, one of the world's most modern football stadiums.

  • Image Germania (painting)

    Germania, March 1848, exhibited in the St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main

  • Bundesarchiv R 49 Bild-0705, Polen, Herkunft der Umsiedler, Karte

    Heim ins Reich

  • Thefalloftheberlinwall1989

    The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 led to the reunification of East and West Germany.

  • Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F074398-0021, Bonn, Pressekonferenz Bundestagswahlkampf, Kohl

    Helmut Kohl played a principal role in the German reunification.

  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era.

  • Gerhart Hauptmann nobel

    Gerhart Hauptmann, a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.

  • Thomas Mann 1937

    Thomas Mann, a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

  • Günter Grass, 2004

    Günter Grass was a recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

  • Herta Müller 2007

    Herta Müller was born into a German minority in Romania. She is the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature for her novel Atemschaukel.

  • Albertus Magnus-Denkmal

    A statue of Albertus Magnus, a medieval German philosopher, now declared a Catholic saint.

  • Schopenhauer

    Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher best known for his book, The World as Will and Representation. He has influenced many other thinkers through his work.

  • Karl Marx 001

    Karl Marx's ideas played a significant role in the establishment of the social sciences and the development of the socialist movement. He published numerous books during his lifetime, the most notable being The Communist Manifesto and Capital. He is also considered one of the greatest economists of all time.

  • Engels

    Friedrich Engels was a social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. He is the co-author of The Communist Manifesto.

  • Max Weber 1894

    Max Weber was a sociologist, philosopher, and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research, and the discipline of sociology itself. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as one of the three founding architects of sociology.

  • Statue de Jean Gutenberg à Strasbourg

    A statue commemorating Johannes Gutenberg for his invention of the first movable type; printing press.

  • Konrad Zuse Z1 (2299314923)

    The magnificent panorama of the metal interlinking in the bowels of the world's first computer created by Konrad Zuse.

  • Geiger counter in use

    The Geiger counter, invented by Hans Geiger, is a type of particle detector that measures ionizing radiation.

  • First medical X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen of his wife Anna Bertha Ludwig's hand - 18951222

    A print of one of the first X-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923) of the left hand of his wife Anna Bertha Ludwig. It was presented to Professor Ludwig Zehnder of the Physik Institut, University of Freiburg, on 1 January 1896.

  • Fahrenheit small

    Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was a physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the mercury thermometer (1714), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.

  • Max Liebermann Bildnis Richard Strauss

    Richard Strauss is considered a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.

  • RichardWagner

    Richard Wagner greatly influenced the development of classical music; his Tristan und Isolde is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music.

  • Scorpions live 2010

    Scorpions, a rock band formed in 1965, now viewed as one of the best-selling acts in music history.

  • Nena Stadtfest-Wien2008a

    Nena, a singer and actress, who brought Neue Deutsche Welle to international attention with her song 99 Luftballons.

  • Moderntalking

    Modern Talking, a synthpop duo consisting of Thomas Anders and Dieter Bohlen, became one of the most successful German acts in the 1980s.

  • Berlinale 2011

    A sign advertising the Berlin International Film Festival

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1988-106-29, Leni Riefenstahl bei Dreharbeiten

    Leni Riefenstahl was widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker

  • CABINETOFDRCALIGARI-poster

    A poster for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari directed by Robert Wiene

  • ReichsluftfahrtministeriumLeipzigerStraße

    Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus, the former Reichsluftfahrtministerium (now a Federal Ministry of Finance building)

  • Dornstetten-p01 crop

    The market place at Dornstetten

  • Die Frauenkirche in Dresden 1

    Frauenkirche, Dresden

  • Meister-Ekkehard-Portal der Erfurter Predigerkirche

    The Meister Eckhart portal of the Erfurt Church

  • Benedikt.Messe.Freiburg.PaterNoster

    Pope Benedict XVI and clergy of the Catholic Church at mass in Freiburg, Germany

  • Workshop of Lucas Cranach (I) - Portrait of Philip Melanchton

    Philip Melanchthon

  • HolyRomanEmpire 1618

    Religion in the Holy Roman Empire on the eve of the Thirty Years' War

  • Konfessionen Deutschland Zensus 2011

    Predominant religious group according to 2011 nationwide census. Catholics are dominant in the south and west, the Non-religious (incl. other religions and not specified) dominate in the east and the large cities, Protestants dominate in north, east, and central parts of Germany

  • Berlin marathon das gruppenbild

    Berlin Marathon

  • MichaelSchumacherHO2005

    Michael Schumacher has claimed 91 race victories and 7 championships in his F1 career.

  • Deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft 2011-06-03 (01)

    German national football team in 2011

  • Dirk nowitzki mavs

    Dirk Nowitzki (in green), Dallas Mavericks power forward, 2011 NBA Champion and Finals MVP

  • Kärwe Biedermeier

    German females in the German tracht national costumes of the time of Biedermeier

  • HRR 1400

    A map of Holy Roman Empire in 1400, reflecting the German society's regional diversity

  • Bautzen Ortsschild

    Boundary sign of Bautzen / Budyšin in German and Upper Sorbian language

  • Rutenfest 2011 Festzug Sieben Schwaben 1

    Rutenfest in Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, celebrating the folklore story of "The Seven Swabians" by the Brothers Grimm

  • 0738 Regisseur Ed Ehrenberg beim Dreh zu - Als der Tod ins Leben wuchs - im Volksmuseum von Sanok

    Actors from Germany in film "Als der Tod ins Leben wuchs" of Sebastian Ed Erhenberg as Volga Germans


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