Einstein, Marx, Von Braun?

It's interesting to see who other countries consider to be their greatest citizens. This time, it's the Germans doing a "best German" contest.

It has the usual expected assortment of athletes and pop figures for a public poll. But some of the other names are interesting.

In the top ten you have: Marx, Einstein, Willy Brandt, Bach, Goethe, Adenaeur, Bismarck, Martin Luther, Gutenberg and the Scholls.

Some of the names that surprised me were: Beethoven at 12th. Wagner at 69, and Mozart at 20. I was really surprised at how high some of the athletes were ranked, as well as the current German regime of Schroeder and Fischer.

But that's what I get for viewing the poll from an American point of view.

I'll be interested to see who they chose as the "best German." If I were over there and had those ten choices, I'd probably go with Gutenberg, then Luther, and then Einstein. But I don't get a say in this one.