Wer wird Millionär?

Wer wird Millionär? (Who will become a millionaire?) is a German game show based on the original British format of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The main goal for is to win €1 million (originally 1 million DM (Deutschmarks)) by answering 15 multiple-choice questions correctly. It first premiered on September 3, 1999 and was shown on the German TV station RTL. Presented by Günther Jauch.

On February 3, 2012 aired 1 000th episode, September 2, 2013 is 1100th episode, and June 22, 2015 is 1200th episode.

On October 17, 2014 was shown special edition after 15th Anniversary.

Top Prize Winners

 * Eckhard Freise - 1,000,000 DM (December 5, 2000)
 * Marlene Grabherr - 1,000,000 DM (May 22, 2001)
 * Gerhard Krammer - €1,000,000 (October 18, 2002)
 * Maria Wienströer - €1,000,000 (March 29, 2004)
 * Stefan Lang - €1,000,000 (October 9, 2006)
 * Timur Hahn - €1,000,000 (January 8, 2007)
 * Oliver Pocher - €1,000,000 (May 30, 2008) (Prominenten-Special)
 * Thomas Gottschalk - €1,000,000 (November 20, 2008) (Prominenten-Special)
 * Ralf Schnoor - €1,000,000 (November 26, 2010)
 * Barbara Schöneberger - €1,000,000 (May 30, 2011) (Prominenten-Special)
 * Sebastian Langrock - €1,000,000 (March 11, 2013)
 * Thorsten Fischer - €1,000,000 (October 17, 2014) (15 Jahre)
 * Nadja Sidikjar - €1,538,450 (November 13, 2015) (Jackpot-Special #2)
 * Leon Windscheid - €1,000,000 (December 7, 2015)

Top Biggest Winners (not full list)

 * Thomas Gottschalk - 500,000 DM (May 28, 2001)
 * Claudia Drexelius - €500,000 (December 1, 2003)
 * Sebastian Herrmann - €500,000 (January 16, 2004)
 * Alfred Lorani - €500,000 (March 7, 2005)
 * Günther Jauch - €500,000 (May 30, 2006)


 * Martin Finé - €500,000 (March 5, 2007)
 * Monika Voskamp - €500,000 (December 5, 2007)
 * Theodor Köster - €500,000 (February 24, 2012)
 * Anke Becker - €500,000 (November 16, 2012)
 * Other 57

Top Prize Losers

 * Georges Devalois Yepnang Mouhoutou - €500 (October 17, 2014) (15 Jahre) (15th question wrong)

0 DM winners

 * Gabi Kuhn - 0 DM (October 9, 2000) (5th question wrong)
 * Christian Mauer - 0 DM (October 20, 2000) (4th question wrong)
 * Rene Laux - 0 DM (October 30, 2000) (4th question wrong)

€0 winners

 * Unknown - €0 (1st question wrong)

Trivia

 * Peter Kloeppel and Anke Engelke are the only contestants that have advanced to question 15.
 * Thomas Gottschalk appeared twice on game and saw 15 question, one of them he took only 500.000 DM and later on November 20, 2008 he won top-prize.