German

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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. (DS9: "The Maquis, Part I")

"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. (DS9: "Homefront", "Accession", "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places")

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
• Hermann Göring
• Johannes Gutenberg
• William Herschel (German-British)
• Adolf Hitler (actually Austrian)
• Karl Jaeger
• Kurt Mandl (uncertain)
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Erwin Rommel
• Heinrich Schliemann
• Schmidt

Appendices

Background

• According to the shooting script of TNG: "Home Soil", Kurt Mandl was intended to be of German descent; he was played by the German actor Walter Gotell. [1]
• 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. [2]

Related topics

• German Shepherd
• Sauerkraut

External links

• German at Wikipedia
• Jerry at Wikipedia