== My opinion to the actual image of Germans == 

 I think this is a completly wrong choice - especially the second row. You can find the argument "We want less men that is why" above - but who is "we". Wikipedia is not or should not be a political statement for equality or for Emancipation of women - it is a encyclopedia! It is sad and hopefully it will chance very fast in the future, but if you would choose the 100 most important Germans in history by objectiv importance-criterias then you would maybe find 3 of 4 women - not if you only choose 8. Of course I am not a women-hater or something, but I think it is ridiculous (and not only for me, but most likely for also many German womens) to replace Goethe with Schiffer or Ida Noddack. Merkel is a good choice - yes - even if she by objectiv search for importance is not (yet) as important as Adenauer and maybe even Kohl - but she is a actual face and is very important. Schiffer was a very famous model - thats true - but at least in Germany her presence is already very limited (and she is still alive). Ida Noddack is a very fameless women- she may have made important contributions to Chemestry, but nearly nobody knows her - maybe the is a figurehead of the Emanzipation movement?. I didn't knew her (maybe I had once heard of her, but could not remember)- well it is unimportant what I know - but you can immediately see, that there are only 4 language-versions of her in the wikipedia - a big sign, that my personal feeling is true. - Watch "Our Best - there you can find also many undeserved musicans ...even ridiculous people like Kübelbök - but the first 10 there are a much better choice. And I don't know - why some people always exclude German Jews from the Germans-article - you can also find "controversial" figueres in the photos of other people - for example Copernicus - but thats a different point. - But back to the women - in my opionion there are better womens to choose: Clara Schumann or even Leni Riefenstahl - the last one is far better known - even if controversial - but why exclude controversial figures - at least she was a strong women, who made something important and was not only nice looking like Schiffer (who for example has no talent for acting). Or maybe Sophie Scholl - even if in my opionion she is often undeserved pointet out over her brother and other people of the resistance, who have the same contributions. - But again 2 women out of 8 is definitly enough. But you could also enlarge the photo. The Poles and Portuges-articels have over 15 persons on the photos - and I don't think, that the number of important Germans is so much smaller -). If you don't care about my argumentation - you should at least consider to replace the Ida Noddack-photo with someone else - that she is seen on the picture is strange.