This volume presents biographies of Germans who made history: starting with Ariovist and Arminius, who became famous for their resistance against the Romans, through figures like Genseric, Theodoric, Clovis, and Charlemagne, the most well-known rulers of the Germanic empires of the Vandals in Africa, the Visigothic kingdom from Spain to the Balkans, and the Frankish Empire, as well as other significant personalities such as Wulfila, the missionary of the Goths and inventor of the Gothic script, Brunhilde, a powerful Germanic woman, the Viking Leif Erikson, the discoverer of Newfoundland, and Snorri Sturluson, the author of the Edda. The course of world history is shaped by the lives, deeds, successes, or failures of individual people. In this sense, these Germanic biographies, in which myth and reality often intertwine, aim to illustrate history.