It's not quite clear from your last sentence but in any case, for German these „quotation marks“ are completely correct. For printed texts, I personally prefer the »guillemets« variant, they look more even and symmetrical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#German

Not that you asked, but the «French style» of guillemets is my favourite way to wrap a quotation out of all of them. Unicode has rather too many "quotemarks" and they all sort of run together. The German style of using them strikes me as aesthetically perverse, like the sentence is being pinched, or like a language which uses }braces like this{ !

Little typography nitpicking: the content inside the French quotes is supposed to be separated from the quote symbols by a (non-breaking) space, « like this ».

Interesting different aesthetical preferences voiced in this thread. :-)

As others already said, the French actually use the guillemets with thin spaces but the Swiss use them without.

But the outward pointing of the guillemets looks really odd to me. I like that the inward pointing guillemets basically scream "look at me, I'm a quoted part!".

Real « French style » puts spaces inside (they should be thin spaces).

Yes I am living in the German speaking area, but I have no idea why my browser produced smart quotes when I wrote my original text. Maybe I wrote it in another editor.

I didn't know there was “ AND ”. I hate those fancy/smart quotes. They are not internationally understood and confuse computers and people alike. Just like I wish we would all just speak English, I wish we would all just use """".