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Interesting Facts about Germany

• Germany hasn't been in existence for very long: it was only officially founded in 1871. Before then, Bavaria, Prussia etc were all independent countries with their own king etc.
• Berlin became home to the biggest train station in Europe in the year 2006.

   

  

• Germany is one of only few countries in the world where Holocaust Denial has been declared a crime.
• The German word Gift means 'poison' and Mist in German means 'manure'.
• Germany was the homeland of numerous renowned scientists and theorists. They include Albert Einstein, Alois Alzheimer, Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Ferdinand von Zeppelin and Werner Heisenberg (of the Uncertainty Principle which states that it is impossible to know both the exact position and the exact velocity of an object at the same time; Star Trek's "Heisenberg Compensator" - sadly not yet invented - removes this uncertainty, making transporter travel feasible. When asked "How does the Heisenberg compensator work?" by Time magazine, Star Trek technical adviser Michael Okuda famously responded, "It works very well, thank you.")

• Many great philosophers of the world, like Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Heidegger were also German. The German Johann Gutenberg is usually credited with inventing the printing press and printing the first Bible (Gideon Bible) and Martin Luther started the religious Reformation movement, leading to the great variety of churches we have today.

• Famous Germans don't all belong to the past. Karl Lagerfeld, Helmut Newton, Steffi Graf, the Rothschild family, Wim Wenders, Claudia Schiffer, and Heidi Klum are all German.

• Equally, beside the classical composers like Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner, Germany has some excellent modern music to offer, e.g. Scorpion (hard rock), song writer and actor Herbert Grönemeyer, Rammstein (metal) and the excellent up and coming Fotos , Clueso (both rock/pop) as well as more established Die Prinzen, Söhne Mannheims, Blumentopf, and Ärzte (rock/punk).