Plenty of scope for other Germans: Heisenberg, Gauss, Oppenheimer, Leibniz, Planck, Kepler and Haber off the top of my head. Always good to have more women represented though so maybe Diane Kruger, Anne Frank, Kirsten Dunst, Marlene Dietrich or Emmy Noether?
Kirsten Dunst would be a stretch, even with German parents. She did that mainly to make it easier to do films in Europe. While they are undoubtedly famous and accomplished, most of the guys on your first list would be next to impossible to get on a picture quiz.
I'll throw in my vote for Fritz Haber. Quoting 'Interesting Facts' (#288), "Before Fritz Haber figured out how to fix nitrogen directly from the atmosphere, the world was running out of fertilizer. If his discovery had never been made, the world population would be much, much lower today."
If we include every German that is famous in the broadest sense of the word, the list would have hundreds of entries. Besides, I've never seen a picture of Diesel or Strauss, and I'm German.
I had to use Google to find out who the heck is Dirk Nowitzki :) But then again, no-one stated that the quiz would be about INTERNATIONALLY famous Germans...
Beethoven, Bach, Luther and Frederick died before Germany developed; Einstein and von Braun switched to American Citizenship; and Nietzsche would probably be very mad to be included in a Quiz listening any Germans.
Yeah, if you're saying that renouncing German citizenship makes you ineligible, Nietzsche renounced his in the early 1870s when he went to teach in Basel and never picked up Swiss citizenship, so was technically a stateless individual for his career.
I didn't get Wernher von Braun even though he's sitting in front of models of rockets. I feel like an idiot. Sad that he was given an amnesty to work in the USA after the war even though he had developed the V1 and V2 which killed Brits during World War 2. The facilities in Piedmont in the Netherlands which built and launched those rockets were also built and maintained with Nazi slave labour -- Jews, Slavs, Communists, Romani, and anyone who resisted the Nazis -- many of whom were worked to death there.
When countries go to war, they do horrible things to one another. It is not considered a 'murder' when a killing is done in the name of and at the request of the state, as long as the dead person was in the 'enemy' country. Look, von Braun joined the Nazi party. So did a lot of people. It kind of had to be done in a lot of industries. Sure, you could refuse - and von Braun did for a while. He continued to get pressured by a fascist dictatorship government, albeit one that was initially democratically elected. He was a rocket scientist. He was a very good one. He wanted to put men into space. When the Third Reich's days were coming to an end, he saw to it that his work remained in Western hands. He could have gone a lot further, a lot faster if he'd taken his skills to Stalin. If he was a murderer, he would have. He was a rocket scientist.
I've never heard of Karl Lagerfeld, but I could tell he was in fashion because, for some reason I'll never understand, people in the fashion industry are always the worst dressers of all.
Although I would not have minded a lot if he was included,
it's still nice that he's not
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/106934/famous-germans-by-pictures
Johannes Gutenberg - invented the printing,
Rudolf Diesel - invented the Diesel-motor,
Carl Benz - more or less invented the car,
Levi Strauss!! - everyone knows what HE invented
There are so many more famous germans. Your list is not yet completed!
And no complaints about the spelling of Nietzsche? How so?