German Inventors and Discoverers
Erfinder und Entdecker
German and other Innovators
Inventions and Discoveries
The list below is a sampling of German, Austrian and Swiss inventors and researchers. It emphasizes people who developed practical and significant technologies, companies or devices that either still exist today or that represent important scientific and technological milestones. To learn more about an inventor, click on any name link below. The years for discoveries (as opposed to inventions) are marked in red.
Also see Das Technologie-Lexikon, our annotated English-German glossary of all technology, inventors and inventions.
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Erfinder Inventor |
Jahr Year |
Erfindung Invention |
| Alois Alzheimer | 1906 | die Alzheimer Krankheit Alzheimer's disease (discovery) |
| Selmar Aschheim | 1928 | Schwangerschaftstest first scientific pregnancy test |
| Martin Leo Arons | 1892 | Aronssche Röhre, Quecksilberdampflampe Arons tube, mercury vapor lamp |
| Karl Benz | 1885 | Kraftwagen automobile (Daimler-Benz) |
| Emil Berliner | 1887 | Grammophon, Mikrophon gramophone, microphone |
| Karlheinz Brandenburg | 1995 | MP3 MPEG Level 3, Fraunhofer Inst. |
| Karl Ferdinand Braun | 1897 |
Braunsche Röhre cathode-ray tube (Nobel Prize 1909) |
| Wernher von Braun | 1940 | V2- und Redstone-Raketen V2 and Redstone rockets |
| Gottlieb Daimler | 1885 | Kraftwagen automobile (Daimler-Benz) |
| Adolf (Adi) Dassler | 1920 | Sportschuh (adidas) athletic shoe |
| Rudolf Diesel | 1885 | der Dieselmotor diesel engine |
| Paul Ehrlich | 1910 | Salvarsan syphilis treatment, Nobel Prize 1908 |
| Albert Einstein | 1905 | Relativitätstheorie Theory of Relativity |
| Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit | 1709 | Alkoholthermometer alcohol thermometer |
| Heinrich Geissler | 1850 | Geissler Röhre Geissler (flourescent) tube |
| Edmund Germer | 1900 | Neonlampe flourescent lamp |
| Bernhard Grill | 1995 | MP3 MPEG Level 3, Fraunhofer Inst. |
| Johannes Gutenberg | 1440 | Buchdruckerkunst movable type |
| Peter Henlein | ca. 1510 | die Unruh balance spring (clockwork) |
| Heinrich R. Hertz | 1888 | elektromagnetische Wellen electromagnetic waves |
| Felix Hoffmann (Bayer AG) | 1899 | Aspirin Aspirin®, aspirin* |
| *In Germany and many other countries, aspirin is a registered trademark belonging to Bayer AG, the company that invented the name "aspirin." In 1995 Bayer (pron. BYE-er) bought back the US rights to the Bayer Aspirin brand in North America, but aspirin is still not a trademarked name in the US. About Link: History of Aspirin from Inventors @ About. | ||
| Robert Koch | 1876 | Milzbrand-Bakterium anthrax bacterium, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1905 |
| Hedy Lamarr | 1942 |
Wechselspektrum spread spectrum technology Web > Hedy Lamarr |
| Otto Lilienthal | 1896 | Segelflugzeug glider |
| Zitat: Opfer müssen gebracht werden. - Last words of Otto Lilienthal after his glider crashed, following several successful flights in 1896. | ||
| Karl von Linde | 1876 | Kühlschrank ammonia refrigerator |
| Ernst Mach | 1877 |
Mach'scher Zahl Mach number (speed of an object relative to speed of sound) Web > Wikipedia - Mach |
| Paul H. Müller | 1939 | DDT DDT |
| Walther Hermann Nernst | 1920 | Nobelpreis Nobel Prize, thermochemistry |
| Paul Nipkow | 1884 | Nipkow-Scheibe Nipkow scanning disk (TV) |
| Nikolaus August Otto | 1877 | Viertakt-Verbrennungsmotor four-stroke internal combustion engine |
| Emil Rathenau | 1884 | Allgemeine Elektrizitätsgesellschaft (AEG) |
| Philipp Reis | 1861 | Telefon telephone prototype |
| Zitat: Ein Pferd frißt keinen Gurkensalat - Words spoken by Philipp Reis while testing his new telephone in 1861. | ||
| Wilhelm C. Röntgen | 1895 | Röntgenstrahlen X-rays (discovery), Nobel Prize in Physics 1901 |
| Ludwig Roselius | 1906 | Entkoffeinierung - Decaffeination of coffee |
| Ernst Ruska | 1931 | Elektronenmikroskop electron microscope, Nobel Prize in Physics 1986 |
| Charles Proteus Steinmetz | 1902 | Wechselstrom, Blitzforschung alternating current, lightning research |
| Levi Strauss | 1853 | die Jeans, blue jeans, Levi's |
| Werner von Siemens | 1867 | Dynamo dynamo generator |
| Felix Wankel | 1954 | Kreiskolbenmotor rotary cylinder engine |
| August Paul von Wassermann | 1906 | Wassermann-Test for syphilis |
| Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin | 1900 | Zeppelin-Luftschiff rigid airship |
| Bernhard Zondek | 1928 | Schwangerschaftstest first scientific pregnancy test |
| Konrad Zuse | 1941 | Z1-Z4-Rechner Z1-Z4 computers - The Z3 was the first programmable computer |
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