List of German inventors and discoverers

This is a list of German inventors and discoverers.

The following list comprises people from Germany or German-speaking Europe, and also people of predominantly German heritage, in alphabetical order of the surname.

Manfred von Ardenne in 1933
Adolf von Baeyer
Martin Behaims Globe 1493
Replica of the Benz Patent-Motorwagen built in 1885
Ludwig Bölkow , instrumental in the development of the Me 262 .
Wernher von Braun
Robert Bunsen
Carl von Clausewitz , father of modern military theory.
Gottlieb Daimler , co-founder of Mercedes-Benz
Inventor Caroline Eichler
Albert Einstein in 1921 , the year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
Emil Fischer
Hans Geiger
Fagus Factory , designed by Walter Gropius and Adolf Mayer
Johannes Gutenberg in a 16th-century copper engraving
Otto Hahn , the first man to split the atomic nucleus
Felix Hoffmann
Alexander von Humboldt
Johannes Kepler
Monument to Robert Koch on his name square in Berlin.
Otto Lilienthal
Me 163 Replica designed by Alexander Lippisch .
Karl Marx
Walther Nernst , Nobel laureate
Hermann Oberth
Max Planck
Johann Philipp Reis
Paul Reuter aged 53 years (1869) by artist Rudolf Lehmann
Hand mit Ringen : print of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen 's first "medical" x-ray, of his wife's hand, taken on 22 December 1895 and presented to Professor Ludwig Zehnder of the Physik Institut, University of Freiburg, on 1 January 1896
Borosilicate glass as used in chemical labs - Type 3.3 according to (DIN ISO 3585)
Rudolf Virchow
Wankel engine, type DKM54 (1957)
Konrad Zuse 's Z1; replica in the German Museum of Technology in Berlin