Quote Originally Posted by Franconicus
You are kidding, aren't you.
To me it is Martin Luther, he really changed the world for good.
Other great Germans are
Gutenberg, Daimler, Benz, Kant, Heisenberg, Einstein (?), Freud (?), even Marx
What a great nation!
No, I´m not.

I know that positions about Bismarck differ, his internal politics weren´t that great, but there are few men who got them right here in Germany. He was a genius in foreign politics and his successors messed it all up(WW I). He also invented disability insurance.
The others are valid as well, but we should pick one, I thought.