Germany's top 10 strikers of all time

10.Oliver Bierhoff
Oliver Bierhoff is one of a few on this list who spent much of his career playing outside Germany. Now 50 years old, he spent over a decade in Serie A, and also had stints in France and Austria. His 27 league goals in 1997-98 saw him crowned the Italian league's top striker, and for his efforts Bierhoff was later named German Footballer of the Year.
Bierhoff scored a good but modest 37 goals in 61 appearances for Germany, but two of those goals propel him towards the German legends on this list. Those were his pair against the Czech Republic in the Euro 1996 final. Not every player on this list won a major international title, and few scored in a major final—let alone twice.

9.Lukas Poldoski
Although he has spent more than half his career playing on the wing or in a supporting striker role, Lukas Podolski remains one of Germany's best-ever centre-forwards. The Arsenal striker was overlooked by the national team of his native Poland as a youngster, and Rudi Voeller jumped at the opportunity to tie him to the German team in 2004.
One hundred thirty international appearances and 49 goals later, Podolski is the third-most capped and third-most prolific scorer in the history of the German national team.Even though he sometimes used as a winger or second striker Poldoski always deliver when he puts on the Germany national team jersey.He retired from football June 2017 and he is 33years of age.

8.Jupp Heynckes
World Football 's best coach of 2012-13 is also one of the best strikers in German football history–Jupp Heynckes. In one of football's cruel twists of fate, the former Gladbach striker played in an era when Gerd Mueller was Germany's best striker. As a result, there wasn't much room for Heynckes in the national team, and he made just 39 appearances for the DFB.
Heynckes nonetheless made his mark at club level. He won the Bundesliga four times with Gladbach during and around the era that Bayern dominated the European Cup, and found the net 220 times in the Bundesliga. Heynckes' goals tally leaves him third on the all-time scoring list, and his rate of 0.6 goals per game is behind only Mueller among the league's top 15 all-time scorers.

7.Miroslav Klose
One of the most underrated strikers in the history of world football is Miroslav Klose. The veteran striker is an old-school footballer who can always be relied upon to find his form in the matches that matter most.
Klose's statistics at club level are rather ordinary; he scored 31 goals for Bremen in 2005-06, but only broke the 20-goal barrier three times in his career. His record for Germany, however, is outstanding. Despite spending most of his prime playing for a rather poor national team, he managed to equal Gerd Mueller's record of 68 goals for the Mannschaft. His 14 goals in World Cup play equals Mueller's tally, making them joint-runners-up behind Ronaldo in that category. Klose will turn 36 just before next summer’s World Cup in Brazil. Even in his old age, the veteran is sure to be a formidable opponent to any defender.

6. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Born in 1955, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge's football career began to blossom around the time that Gerd Mueller's started to wind down. It was good news for the West German national team, which replaced one legendary striker with another.
Rummenigge won consecutive European Cups with Bayern Munich in 1975 and 1976, and the 1980 European Championship. He also began West Germany's comeback in the 1986 World Cup final, with a goal in the 74th minute as his side trailed Argentina 2-0. The DFB went on to be denied victory by Diego Maradona's team, 3-2. Despite never winning the World Cup, the current Bayern president retired a decorated hero of club and country.

5.Rudi Voeller
 The Hanau native's trophy cabinet is not exactly extensive, but he claimed the titles that matter: Voeller won the 1990 World Cup with Germany, and later the 1992-93 Champions League with Marseille.
Voeller's strike rate at club level had its ups and downs over his career, but for Germany he was a consistent performer. He was key to the World Cup victory, netting three times during the tournament. He ended his career with 47 strikes (eight of which came during World Cups) in 90 caps.
Juergen Klinsmann

4. Juergen Klinsmann
 Is one of the few players on this list to spend most of his prime playing outside the Bundesliga. Although he did not made his senior international debut until age 23, his record of 108 appearances for Germany stands fourth on the all-time caps list. And his 47 goals have only been surpassed by Miroslav Klose and Gerd Mueller.
Klinsmann won the 1990 World Cup and Euro 1996, and his 11 career World Cup goals have been exceeded by only five players. He was named West German Footballer of the Year in 1988, and unified German Footballer of the Year six years later. In 1995, the English press honored Klinsmann with the FWA Player of the Year award. There is something to be said for adaptability. Wherever he went, Klinsmann made a mark.

3.Uwe Seeler
Before Gerd Mueller, Uwe Seeler was the best-ever German striker. Tragically, his time came just after the 1954 World Cup-winning German side and before the team that won Euro 1972.
Seeler nonetheless had a brilliant record for Germany and Hamburg. With 43 goals for the Mannschaft, he is among his country's most prolific strikers. By scoring with such frequency in just 72 appearances he compiled the second-highest goal rate among top scorers in DFB history. Seeler's record of 404 goals for Hamburg would have easily surpassed Gerd Mueller's Bundesliga record if not for the fact that the first half of Seeler's career came before the league was created.

2.Fritz Walter
 In 2003, the DFB nominated Walter as its "Golden Player," the best player from the German Association over the previous 50 years.
A Kaiserslautern legend who played as a supporting striker, Walter scored 380 goals in 411 appearances for the club, a feat made all the more impressive given that he was drafted into the German army and was forced to forgo three of his best footballing years fighting in World War II. He returned emaciated and struck by malaria, but managed to have an incredible career
A natural leader, Walter captained the German national team to a shock victory in the 1954 World Cup final. Even eight years after his death, Kaiserslautern commemorated their best-ever player by wearing a special shirt featuring Walter's face and his famous quote that translates as: "The key to success is friendship and the will to give everything for each other."

1. Gerd Mueller
Gerd Mueller is and perhaps always will be remembered as Germany's best-ever striker. Regardless of how many goals Klose scores before retiring, the fact that "Der Bomber" took just 62 appearances to record 68 strikes—three of which came in World Cup finals—makes his record more attractive still.
Mueller was named European Footballer of the Year in the time of Beckenbauer and Cruijff, he won Euro 1972 and the 1974 World Cup, and three consecutive European Cups from 1974-76. And although his records for career World Cup and European Cup goals and goals for Germany have since been broken, his record tally of 40 in a Bundesliga season may never be matched. Mueller is a champion of German football, and most certainly is the best striker his country has ever produced.
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