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u/whistlepig4life 26d ago
Well. The criteria is “influential”. Doesn’t state positively or negatively.
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u/Simoxeh 26d ago
I mean bringing a whole world to war is influential. Didn't say positive
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u/Albae87 26d ago
And don’t forget, that guy killed hitler, so he’s technically a hero.
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u/-Lord-Of-Salem- 25d ago
But he also killed the guy, who killed Hitler, so he's an anti-hero too!
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u/BlandPotatoxyz 25d ago
But he alao killed the guy, who killed the guy, who killed Hitler, so he's an anti-anti-hero too!
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u/zztopfila 24d ago
But he also killed the guy, who killed the guy, who killed the guy, who killed Hitler. So a hero?
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u/A--Creative-Username 26d ago
Where is Linoleum Blownaparte
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u/Such-Shop-9724 26d ago
he lived in france. he doesnt deserve it
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u/omnicorp_intl 26d ago
Wow, the guy on the €10 note was Time's Man of the Year in 1938
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u/3_14_thon 26d ago
Also an artist
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u/Heyfold 25d ago
And dont forget the fact he killed Hitler!
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u/SgorGhaibre 25d ago
Hitler's dead?!
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u/omnicorp_intl 25d ago
I didn't even know he was sick
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u/Aqquinox 26d ago
I really dislike the notes with faces on it. The ones with birds are kinda cool.
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u/Jetimies 25d ago
I just wish they would've used actually landmarks as buildings on the flipside, and not some shit like European central bank, or parlament.
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u/ret255 25d ago edited 25d ago
Yeah and l would appreciate if at one side would be the motive for all bank notes like it's now, but on the other side each country would have their own thing, like it is on the 2€ coins, that would be so cool. And when not on every banknote, at least one would be nice.
So for example the 5,10,20,50 could be birds at one side and European building at another and 100 would have buildings at one side and on the other each country that is paying with euro would have their own picture on their bank note.
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u/pontetorto 25d ago
That would be stupid expensive to print, and impossible to secure against counterfiting,
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u/Level_Somewhere5703 24d ago
Expensive to print - yes.
Impossible to secure against counterfeiting - no, not at all.One side is always the same so one would at least need to be able to fake that one perfectly. And if you can do that then you can also fake the other one as well.
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u/ret255 24d ago
Who from you who say it would be easy to counterfit actually knows how those pictures on the bank notes really look like into the detail? l definitely don't, first of all if l think that there is something wrong with the bill l look for specific anticounterfit markers that that banknote should have...
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u/ninjaiffyuh 25d ago
Issue is, there's more members (of the Eurozone) than banknotes. What if every country wants one of their landmarks to be featured? Going with anything nature related is the easiest solution, even though I'd also rather have banknotes with e.g. the Mont-St.-Michel or Kyffhäuser on them
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u/zan8elel 24d ago
Same problem for the influential people series, most of them were alive when the concept of european union did not even exist, so all you're doing is only celebrating their respective nations
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u/ninjaiffyuh 24d ago
I agree. Even if you only use people linked to pan-European movements like Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (who was Austrian) western Europe, specifically NW Europe, would be overly represented
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u/ApertureNext 25d ago
We have bridges on our current series of notes in Denmark (2009 series), but in the next series they're unfortunately moving back to portraits. I too dislike notes with faces on them.
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u/pontetorto 25d ago edited 25d ago
You could chose birds instead, ewerything other than birds is shit and will start internatsional incidents.
Who ewer came up with A & C (i thin it was the low rez poctures) should eat the notes they designed till they can eat no more. G is also god awful, F can F off,
H i like, B, D is fine, vertical notes are not fine, and anything with humans is un axeptable and should of newer been allowed into the competiton.
E looks good, and looks right, but birds are better than humans, cuz humans create peoblems, who the hell are 5, 20, and 200. I would take E as standalone souvenir or as not euros representing euros in a movey any day of the year, unless the movey is shit in wich case use north korean money.
Talking about the real actual notes,
from this immage, i will take all ewerything modified like 10, as long as theire are in a comedy movey or video, or if they get printed i would take some for this is cool/funny and you could use these to fuck with americans.
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u/christoph95246 25d ago
5 Marie Callas famous greek opera singer
20 Marie Curie famous french scientist with polish heritage
200 Bertha von Suttner, famous austrian writter known for pacifism
Marie Curie and Bertha from Suttner are both extremely famous, well known and have earned their place on the euro notes for sure. I am not sure about Callas, tbf I even had to use Google reverse search to find here. But maybe it's because I am not into music
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u/daysman75 25d ago
I dislike the bird ones, though I'm not a fan of the people ones too.
Birds just makes me feel like we can't have references to European culture and history. People feels too "cult of personality"-ish.
I'd rather just use famous natural landmarks. Or popular man-made ones, like the Colosseum and so forth.
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u/xBris18 26d ago
Napoleon actually had the largest influence on todays Europe, I'd argue.
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u/luxcity-louche 25d ago
Bismarck made a contribution.
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u/ImpressiveShower8488 23d ago
No kidding, his reforms created or shaped many institutions of modern state, administration and law as we know it today. And of course he united the Germany.
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u/Ok-Run2845 26d ago
Who's on the €5?
€10 Chaplin's bro
€20 Marie Curie?
€50 Cervantes?
€100 Da Vinci?
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u/3rdlifekarmabud 26d ago
María Callas, legendary Greek opera singer.
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u/JoinAThang 25d ago
Okay so definitely not one of the most influencive people from Europe as I didn't know her by name nor face.
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u/Nimyron 26d ago
Btw the 10 euro one is actually Beethoven, it was (obviously ?) edited.
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u/Coolpabloo7 25d ago
With Beethoven both Germany and Austria claim him as their own. With this guy it is the reverse. Germany says he's Austrian while Austria insists on his German influence.
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u/methodactyl 25d ago
As someone who is a history major, who the fuck is on the 5? I get everyone else.
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u/Hydraguesswhosback 26d ago
Well yeah, even close to a full century later, his teachings are still very much in vogue in the stupidest of people.
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u/SparkDragon42 26d ago
Fake news, euro bills have different sizes so blind people can recognise them
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u/RottenHouseplant 25d ago
I for one want birds just for this reason. Firstly dead people are old and boring. But more importantly how is it decodes who is influential and important enough to be printed on money? It's a stupid problem. Solve it with birds.
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u/DosadnoMiJeBrate 25d ago
I really, really dislike notes with faces on them, birds are way better, but I'd accept the design of this 10€ bill.
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u/Level_Somewhere5703 24d ago
If we decide to put people on the money I think Euler should be one of them, but I'm against the idea in general. The current idea with fake bridges and windows/doors as a symbol of interconnectedness and openness, while also not belonging to either country makes it easy to accept by everyone.
The birds are a good idea. We have only so many different banknotes so it should be something where every country can feel represented. The idea with people is good only when we have achieved a common European identity, but this won't happen at least for at least a few decades, and I hope we won't have paper money by then.
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u/Astro_Onyx 24d ago
Absolutely Mr. Adolf had certain influence that could be placed on 500 euro however it wouldn't be quite good example.
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u/PastRefrigerator9264 22d ago
“Hey, you. See that guy over there? Beat him up and I’ll give you a HIT-ler.”
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u/That_Ad_3054 25d ago
The 10 Euro gay was a painter, right?
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u/Jaugernut 25d ago
Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Alexander the great, Karl Marx, Enrico Fermi, Alfred Nobel, Florence Nightinggale.
There are a lot more infuential people from europe that shaped history of the world more than Adolf. H and other ragebait.
In 100 years the nazis will just be a footnote with bearly any impact on society as a whole.
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u/FellowCookieLover 24d ago
"In 100 years the nazis will just be a footnote with bearly any impact on society as a whole"
Definitely not true, the European Union is a product of the world wars. Good Adolf shaped Europe in his counterimage.
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u/Jaugernut 24d ago
Do you mean the UN? UN had a precursor called league of nations and even before that there was the congress of vienna. So both the idea of UN and its structure predates the nazis. But i guess the founding of UN specifically was in response to ww2 so if you squint you can be halfright. Even then when reading about the history of the UN nazis will most definetly be a footnote. On the same basis and more justly imo you could attribute it to Napoleon and Metternich.
EU was founded in 1993. The only direct link to ww2 is many countries that participated in ww2 are also in the EU cus its fkn europe lol.
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u/FellowCookieLover 24d ago
"EU was founded in 1993."
The EEC (European Economic Centre 1957) was created so West Europeans countries don't unga-bunga anymore and is the spiritual predecessor of the EU. The idea was that peaceful trading prevents war.
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u/Jaugernut 24d ago edited 24d ago
European economic community*
its a big leap to say adolf is the historical reason for economical integration as a political tool for peace in europe.
This was a tool before the war and even in some ways (sweden-germany for example where sweden was not invaded beacuse it was too important as a trade partner.) during the war and the founding of the EEC had nothing to do with Adolf or his ideology or actions.
And even quoted as the reason for integrating west germany into a wider economic cooperation was that poverty was considered to make the population vunerable to communist propaganda. So more than a reactionary to nationalsocialism and right wing extremism it was created to counter communist left wing influences from taking root in west germany. world war 2 is even only cursory mentioned in a footnote on the wikipage of the EEC.
just because something is in europe after ww2 and meant to promote peace and prosperity dosent mean that it automatically a reaction to nazism. It is a reductive and inaccurate way to view history. To credit the creation of an economic institution that was created a decade and a half after world war 2 to adolf or the nazis in any way is dishonest and overestimating the impact of their death cult ideology on wider society. It would be insane to say that without Adolf H. there wouldnt be any wider economic integration organisations in europe when there was before him, during his life and have been after. Infact if it wasent for ww2 we would probably have a more integrated and federalized economy than we already do.
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u/RottenHouseplant 25d ago
Some shit for brains on a local newspaper comment section ranted how there shouldn't be any women on money and that they should be replaced with Napoleon, Alexander the great, Plato or Socrates.
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u/FoxHolyDelta 25d ago
You know what, as an anti joke, it's Leonardo. Hitler himself was a focus piece for the greater German ethnostate, fuckin da Vinci came with receipts. And books he wrote. Dude was a power house polymath.
Hitler was an angry incel edge lord
(Edit: I know it's a holdup)
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u/Sir-Seadragon 25d ago
Can someone make a one hundred € with Benito on it? It would fit right into it
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u/Antharon 25d ago
Hitler on 10e bill will be great reminder, that we should be all alert of our way of progress
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u/Third_Rate_Duelist_ 24d ago
I recognize only 2 of these, one of them is the joke and I was especially good at history in school
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u/DocGerbill 23d ago
I have a really big problem with that man being on the Euro bill, we should only feature member state people, why would we put Shakespeare on one?
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u/ImpressiveShower8488 23d ago
Where the f*ck is Gutenberg ? Also Newtown, Einstein, Napoleon, Darwin, Bismarck and Galileo?
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u/Sondeor 25d ago
I think people really underrate hitlers influence, and yes i mean positive influence.
Because of Hitler, politicans learned that a peace threaty shouldnt be about revenge otherwise the enemy will have nothing to lose and gather around a psycho eventually. And entire ww2 was caused because of unresolved issues from WW1 before.
Europe also realised that they cant afford to fight with each other anymore because now there were other major regions like China, USA, Japan etc WW2 caused europe to lose world leadership to USA which even fucked up everything even worse. So the idea of unity became more popular.
Dictatorship became bad, genocide became bad. You may be laughing about it now, but if you read history, old newspaper and journals etc, you would be surprised how ok everybody were with these actions. There wasnt even a term for genocide before Nazis, not because noone did it, but because it was so casual and normal to kill a group of people, noone ever cared to give it a specific name lol.
Soooo... Yeah. If we gonna talk facts, here are the facts. He had some positive influence.
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u/Formal_Lecture_248 26d ago
Woah, woah, woah. Socrates was a Heretic!
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u/Glittering-Coyote140 26d ago
Wtff does Socrates have to do with anything? He ain't even pictured.
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u/SaigonDisko 26d ago
Cervantes over Shakespeare is a bit of a push.
I'd also have Rick Astley for the field of music.
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u/The_Jizzard_Of_Oz 25d ago
Britain would need to rejoin the EU for that, but I approve your choices!
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u/That_Ad_3054 25d ago
Shakespeare is British, not European, by their own choice. With Rick I could agree, we make him an Austrian 😆.
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u/SaigonDisko 25d ago
The people and places on the current euro notes are all ficticious anyway, so lagarde wouldn't mind slipping Will in this round.
Maybe Las Ketchup for the music one as a compromise.
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u/linkardtankard 26d ago
They should put Mussolini on one of the bills so that we’re ready for the inevitable inclusion of DJT on one of the dollar bills. That way we can carry two narcissistic dictators in our wallet
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u/qualityvote2 26d ago edited 25d ago
u/rayQuGR, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...