Legendary German people

thumb|300px|Dr. Fausto by Jean-Paul Laurens thumb|1876 'Faust' by Goethe, decorated by Rudolf von Seitz|Rudolf Seitz, large German edition

German legend

thumb|"Brunnhild" (1897) by Gaston Bussière

leader of privateers

founder of the Rosicrucian Order

fictional character

thumb|Lohengrin by Walter Crane, 1895

thumb|The dwarf Alberich (with whip) drives on the Nibelung dwarfs, who collect gold and other treasures. ([[Arthur Rackham, 1910)]]

alchemist and mythical European inventor of gunpowder

possibly-mythical German soldier

Estrildis was the beloved mistress of King Locrinus of the Britons and the mother of his daughter Habren, according to the 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth.