Re: What have the Germans ever done for us?
Sauerkraut and Rhineland wines are wonderful .. sounds like you just haven’t experienced good ones.
As for aristocracy the choices are limited - Hapsburgs, Bourbons, Glukcksbergs who are all related anyway, so hardly specifically German or a choice.
And then there are Messrs Hilbert, Reinmann, Gödel, Gauss, Krebs and Koch, to name but a few...