Portal:Germany/Did you know

You are welcome to add a new DYK fact related to Germany which has appeared or will appear on the Main page. 5 to 8 facts may be shown. If your fact was pictured, it should take the top position. The one there should take its chronological position. If your fact is not pictured, it should take the second position. Please add a date.

Please check if a fact should be removed now. If you can remove one of yourself, go ahead. If not, consider to remove the oldest one. In case of doubt don't remove.

The facts in this section come and go. For a record of the DYK articles, please archive now at Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/DYK 2025.

... that the Munich kitchen was developed because the Stuttgart kitchen (example pictured) did not allow a housewife to look after her children?
... that some of the interior decoration of the Ernst-Haeckel-Haus is inspired by jellyfish?
... that Olympic silver medallist Eduard von Lütcken captured a Russian general before being killed in an early action of the First World War?
... that attempted crimes with no chance of success are still punishable by law in Germany?
... that German equestrian Hermann Weiland competed for Croatia at the 1992 Summer Olympics, but marched with Guam during the opening ceremony?
... that the first volume of Felix Klein's books on the history of mathematics does not mention the three women who originally transcribed his lectures?
... that German athlete Leander Wiegand received a scholarship to play American football at an American college that had never seen him play?
... that novelist Barbara Frischmuth argues that humans should not presume to rule over other species?