Germany

Germany is a nation-state on Earth. Located in Europe, Germany is part of the European Alliance. The German nation has played a major role in the history of Earth, for both good and ill, and a number of influential people came from Germany.

Notable People

 * Johann Gutenberg - a 15th century German who was credited with the invention of the printing press on Earth. In 1455 he began production of the first mass produced book on Earth - the Gutenberg Bible.  Such a bible was later found in a large art collection of the immortal Flint. (TOS episode Requiem for Methuselah)
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - a composer of classical music who lived during the 19th century on Earth. Mozart is considered to be one of the greatest human composers, and was a favorite composer of Sarek of Vulcan. (TOS novel Probe)
 * Johannes Brahms - another 19th century composer of classical music.
 * Friedrich Nietzsche - a 19th century philosopher. The human Augment Malik likened himself and other Augments to Nietzsche's Übermensch. (ENT episode Borderland).
 * Albert Einstein - a 20th century physicist who formulated the Theory of Relativity. (TNG episode Descent, Part I). If the Genesis Project was a success, David Marcus felt their names would be mentioned along side famous scientists, such as Einstein.
 * Adolf Hitler - a 20th century human who led the Nazi party on Earth, and would later rule the German nation state as dictator. Under Hitler's rule Germany entered one of its darkest periods ever, and was a major combatant in the Second World War.  Captain Jean-Luc Picard once agreed with the false historian Berlinghoff Rasmussen that saving an endangered planet could permit a child living on the planet to grow up to become the next Adolf Hitler or Khan Noonien Singh. (TNG episode A Matter of Time).