German


 * You might also be looking for the actress Gretchen German.

The term German refers to anything originating from the nation-state of Germany, including its people, as well as the German language.

Benjamin Sisko once danced in German lederhosen at the Mazurka Festival in New Berlin. 

"Jerry" was a slang term for a German person during World War II. Miles O'Brien and Julian Bashir (as well as Quark) used the term when O'Brien and Bashir used their Battle of Britain holoprogram. 

German citizens or of German descent

 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Johannes Brahms (in reality, an alias of the Mesopotamian Flint)
 * Nicolaus Copernicus (German-Polish)
 * Albert Einstein
 * Johannes Gutenberg
 * William Herschel (German-British)
 * Adolf Hitler (actually Austrian)
 * Karl Jaeger
 * Kurt Mandl (uncertain)
 * Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Erwin Rommel
 * Heinrich Schliemann
 * Schmidt

Background

 * According to the shooting script of, Kurt Mandl was intended to be of German descent; he was played by the German actor Walter Gotell.
 * A pair of metal rigging loops, used as uniform components for the engineer's radiological suit, were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. The two German words "sichern" (to lock) and "abseilen" (to rappel) are engraved on the rigging loops.

Related topics

 * German Shepherd
 * Sauerkraut