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Manfred von Ardenne in 1933. Ernst Abbe: Invented the first refractometer, and many other devices. Donated his shares in the company Carl Zeiss to form Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung, still in existence today. Franz Carl Achard: Developed a process to produce sugar from sugar beet. Built the first factory for the process in 1802.
The German-speaking book publishers produce about 700,000,000 copies of books every year, with about 80,000 titles, nearly 60,000 of them new publications. Germany is in third place on international statistics after the English-speaking book market and the People's Republic of China. [25]
Jochen Rindt (1942–1970), German-born racing driver who represented Austria during his career (one-time World Champion) Walter Röhrl, rally and racing driver (two-time Rally World Champion) Nico Rosberg (born 1985), former German–Finnish Formula One driver (one-time World Champion) Bernd Rosemeyer (1909–1938), racing driver
Liechtenstein (/ ˈ l ɪ k t ən s t aɪ n / LIK-tən-styne; [11] German: [ˈlɪçtn̩ʃtaɪn] ⓘ), officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (German: Fürstentum Liechtenstein, pronounced [ˈfʏʁstn̩tuːm ˈlɪçtn̩ˌʃtaɪ̯n] ⓘ), [12] is a doubly landlocked German-speaking microstate in the Central European Alps, between Austria in the east and north and Switzerland in the west and ...
The German diaspora ( German: Deutschstämmige) consists of German people and their descendants who live outside of Germany. The term is used in particular to refer to the aspects of migration of German speakers from Central Europe to different countries around the world. This definition describes the "German" term as a sociolinguistic group as ...
Germany (78.3%) Austria (8.4%) Switzerland (5.6%) Brazil (3.2%) Italy (0.4%) Others (4.1%) The following is a list of the countries and territories where German is an official language (also known as the Germanosphere ). It includes countries that have German as (one of) their nationwide official language (s), as well as dependent territories ...
German-speaking Europe. Approximate distribution of native German speakers (assuming a rounded total of 95 million) worldwide: [ 7][ 8][ 2][ note 1] Germany (78.3%) Austria (8.4%) Switzerland (5.6%) South Tyrol (0.4%) Others (non-German speaking countries in Europe and non-European countries) (7.3%) The German language is spoken in a number of ...
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg[ a] ( c. 1393–1406 – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press [ 2] enabled a much faster rate of printing. The printing press later spread ...