Stats: Top 100 most important and famous people from Germany

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Criminal, Fuhrer of Nazi Germany	Adolf Hitler	98%
Physicist, known for developing the theory of relativity	Albert Einstein	93%
Female Chancellor from 2005 to 2021	Angela Merkel	91%
Philosopher, author of The Communist Manifesto	Karl Marx	90%
Composer of Symphony No. 9 and For Elise	Ludwig van Beethoven	89%
Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documented her life under Nazi persecution	Anne Frank	86%
Criminal, Nazi Minister of propaganda	Joseph Goebbels	85%
The Iron Chancellor, main figure of the unification of Germany	Otto von Bismarck	84%
Theologian, main figure of the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	83%
Inventor of movable-type printing press	Johannes Gutenberg	81%
Baroque composer of Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Fugue in G minor	Johann Sebastian Bach	81%
Kaiser of German Empire during World War One	William II/Wilhelm II	80%
Poet, author of The Sorrows of Young Werther	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	79%
Philosopher, death of God	Friedrich Nietzsche	78%
Philosopher, other author of The Communist Manifesto	Friedrich Engels	77%
Industrialist, who saves the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, famous for the film about his life	Oskar Schindler	77%
First emperor of German Empire	William I/Wilhelm I	77%
Philosopher of the Enlightenment, born in Konigsberg	Immanuel Kant	76%
Driver, 7 times champion of Formula 1	Michael Schumacher	76%
Engineer, considered the inventor of the car	Carl Benz	75%
Writer, author of many famous fairy tales	Jacob Grimm/Wilhelm Grimm	75%
Composer of Ride of the Valkyries	Richard Wagner	75%
Pope, died in 2022	Benedict XVI	74%
Criminal, commander of SS	Heinrich Himmler	74%
General of Nazi Germany, nicknamed the Desert Fox	Erwin Rommel	72%
Criminal, commander of Air Force of Nazi Germany	Hermann Goring	69%
King of Prussia, supporter of enlightened absolutism	Frederick II/ Frederick the Great	68%
Female tennis player, winner of 22 Grand Slam titles	Steffi Graf	66%
Chancellor from 1982 to 1998, main figure of German reunification	Helmut Kohl	63%
President, one of the fathers of European Union	Konrad Adenauer	63%
Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, nicknamed red beard	Frederick Barbarossa	62%
Footballer, world champion in 1974, and two times winner of Ballon d'Or	Franz Beckenbauer	61%
Criminal, doctor nicknamed The Angel of Death	Josef Mengele	61%
Band famous for his song 99 Luftballons	Nena	58%
Main German general during World War One and President of Weimar Germany	Paul von Hindenburg	58%
Physicist, who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays	Wilhelm Röntgen	58%
Tennis player, winner of six Grand Slam titles	Boris Becker	57%
Astronomer, known for his laws of planetary motion	Johannes Kepler	57%
Actress and sex symbol of 1920s, starred in many Hollywood film and one of the most popular actress of all times	Marlene Dietrich	57%
Chancellor from 1969 to 1974, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971	Willy Brandt	56%
Footballer, goalkeeper, world champion in 2014	Manuel Neuer	55%
Criminal, officier of SS, executed in Israel in 1962	Adolf Eichmann	54%
One of the world's most successful models of 1990s	Claudia Schiffer	53%
Chemist, pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944	Otto Hahn	53%
Leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and later a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States	Wernher von Braun	53%
Physicist, main creator of the theory of quantum mechanics, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918	Max Planck	51%
Driver, 4 times champion of Formula 1	Sebastian Vettel	50%
Composer of Wiegenlied(Lullaby or Cradle Song)	Johannes Brahms	49%
Actor, two times winner of Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained	Christoph Waltz	48%
Founder of one of the most famous car brands in the world	Ferdinand Porsche	48%
Footballer, world champion in 1990, and winner of Ballon d'Or in 1990	Lothar Matthäus	48%
King of Bavaria, commissioned the construction of Neuschwanstein Castle	Ludwig II/Ludwig of Bavaria	47%
Philosopher, one of the most important figures in idealism	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	46%
President of East Germany from 1976 to 1989	Erich Honecker	45%
Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, nicknamed stupor mundi	Frederick II	45%
German-British Baroque composer known for his operas, composer of Zadok the Priest	Georg Friedrich Händel	45%
Engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal combustion engine	Nikolaus August Otto	45%
Female revolutionary socialist	Rosa Luxemburg	45%
Rock band formed in Hanover in 1965	Scorpions	44%
Engineer, famous for the invention of the engine named like him	Rudolf Diesel	42%
Criminal, main architect of Nazi Germany	Albert Speer	41%
Writer, author of Tonio Kröger and Doctor Faustus	Thomas Mann	40%
Anti-Nazi political activist, member of the White Rose a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany	Hans Scholl/Sophie Scholl	39%
Physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics	Werner Karl Heisenberg	39%
Painter of Wanderer above the Sea of Fog	Caspar David Friedrich	38%
Engineer, pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development	Gottlieb Daimler	38%
Physicist, who contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology, he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi	Karl Ferdinand Braun	37%
Founder of one of the most famous fashion brands in the world	Hugo Boss	36%
Criminal, the man with the iron heart, killed in Prague	Reinhard Heydrich	36%
Polymath of XVII century main figure of philosophy and mathematic	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	35%
Mathematician and physicist of XVIII/XIX century, considered the foremost of mathematicians	Carl Friedrich Gauss	34%
Philosopher, author of The World as Will and Representation	Arthur Schopenhauer	32%
Chancellor from 1963 to 1966, main figure of German economic miracle	Ludwig Erhard	32%
Philosopher, the most important and influential of the XX century	Martin Heidegger	32%
Criminal, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany	Joachim von Ribbentrop	31%
Microbiologist, discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis and cholera, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1905	Robert Koch	31%
Actor, three times nominated for the Golden Globe Awards, debuted as Magneto in X-Men films	Michael Fassbender	29%
Actor, famous for his portrayal of former Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda in the film Rush and his role in Inglourious Basterds	Daniel Bruhl	28%
General, key figure of German victories at Liège and Tannenberg during World War One	Erich Ludendorff	26%
Female philosopher, the banality of evil	Hannah Arendt	25%
Chemist, pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1931	Carl Bosch	23%
Painter of The Ambassadors	Hans Holbein the Younger	23%
Chemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of a process to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas	Fritz Haber	22%
Engineer, inventor of the modern computer	Konrad Zuse	22%
Physicist, who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves	Heinrich Hertz	21%
Main Prussian general during Franco-Prussian War	Helmuth von Moltke	18%
Director of Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and one of the main figures of the New German Cinema movement	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	16%
Philosopher, leading member of the Frankfurt School	Theodor W. Adorno	15%
Director of Nosferatu	Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau	14%
Philosopher, who made a critique of Christianity	Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach	13%
Physicist and mathematician, key figure in the development of quantum mechanics, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954	Max Born	12%
Philosopher, ideator of thesis–antithesis–synthesis	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	11%
Physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin	Emil Adolf von Behring	10%
Historian, the greatest classicist of the XIX century	Theodor Mommsen	9%
Writer of XIX century, author of fantasy and Gothic horror	Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann	8%
Biologist, pioneer in the study of cellular respiration, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1953	Hans Krebs	8%
Director, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times for The Patriot, The Love Parade and Heaven Can Wait	Ernst Lubitsch	7%
Painter of Five women on the street	Ernst Ludwig Kirchner	7%
One of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the XX century	Wilhelm Furtwängler	6%
Conductor of the XIX century, his activity was critical for establishing the successes of several major composers of the time	Hans von Bülow	2%

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