The most important Germanic country?

[Albion]

Which Germanic country is most important to the culture?

This can be based on territory, economy, empires, science, history or whatever you want.

Which is the most important country in the Germanic cultural group in your opinion and why?

[Albion]

I'd have to say Germany. It's the heart of Europe and was important as the staging point for the Germanic migrations.
Also it's had a lot of offshoot ethnicities such as the Dutch.

[research_centre]

I am going to vote Germany, but frankly their policies and programmes since the end of WWII I do not support.

[Storm 1995]

Faroer islands.

[morski]

I was gonna vote Austria because of the Habsburgs and the positive impact their empire had on East-Central Europe but accidentally checked Liechtenstein. Still

The Private Art Collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein, one of the world's leading private art collections, is shown at the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna.

[Wulfhere]

Mercia.

[Albion]

Mercia.

Yeah right. It hasn't existed for centuries for a start...

[Stars Down To Earth]

I have to swallow my Scottish honour and be totally objective here.
The Anglo-Saxons are surely the most successful "tribe" in human history.

(Although I'm part Anglo-Saxon myself, anyways. )

[Wulfhere]

Yeah right. It hasn't existed for centuries for a start...

As an independent state, you mean? Nor has England.

[Sahson]

Austria, because of the Austro-hungarian empire. Wien was one of the greatest cities of it's time to grace the Earth. Many intellects came from Austria, and Vieenese coffee.

Mozart, Liszt, Czerny, Haydn, Mahler, Schoenberg, Johann Strauss.

then you have other greats such as - Ferdinand Porsche(inventor of Porsche, and designer of the Volkswagen - which is one of the largest successful automotive companies in the world, which built the Bugatti Veyron, and owns Bentley.), Nikola Tesla, Alois Negrelli(planned the Suez Canal), Gaston Glock(think of guns), Anselm Franz(pioneer in JEt engineering).

Philosophers like Edmund Hurssel, Karl Popper, and others fromt he vienna circle.

Physicians, Physicist, and mathematicians like Hans Asperger, Christian Doppler, Ernst Mach, Gernot Zippe, as well as many Austrians whom have won Nobel prize awards for their contributions.

The list goes on.