Germany

Map of Germany

Germany (known locally as Deutschland) is a country in Western Eurasia, a largely forested temperate area. Germany has a population of about 81 million, making it the most populated nation in the European Union. Germany has an advanced manufacturing sector and is economically quite powerful.

German Developments

• The European Printing Press
• Public Education
• The Bolt Action Rifle
• The Rigid Airship
• The Haber Process
• The Automobile (Benz Patent-Motorwagen, 1886)
• The jet engine

German States in History

• The Holy Roman Empire
• Various German Principalities
• The Kingdom of Prussia
• The German Empire (1871-1918)
• The Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
• Nazi Germany (1933-1945)
• German Democratic Republic (1945-1990)
• Federal Republic of Germany (1945 onward)

Germans of Note

Guttenburg: the German Artisan that invented the tool that allowed the Age of Enlightentment to happen

• Albert Einstein
• Angela Merkel
• Claus von Stauffenberg
• Erwin Rommel
• Frederick II of Prussia
• Gregor Mendel
• Johannes Gutenberg
• Konrad Adenauer
• Konrad Zuse
• Otto von Bismark

Germans on SD.net

• Thanas
• Serafina