Berlin – A saying like that would also have been appropriate in these Corona times. “No one can get me into the germ carriage anymore!” said Robert Koch – and preferred to walk rather than confide in the Berlin subway. The discoverer of the tuberculosis pathogen and later Nobel Prize winner is said to have been afraid of contagious microorganisms in his private life. Kaiser Wilhelm II only took the subway once, in 1908, and then never again. He was allegedly offended because his spiked helmet had slipped on the train.
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