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Re:Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from t... by Semaphor on Monday October 03, 2022 @01:53AM (#33063891)
It depends, probably Max Müller or Hans Müller, just anything Müller. Unlike the US, we don’t normally use a real name as placeholder name [0], the options there would be Max or Erika Mustermann (literally example or pattern man), for an average person it’s Otto Normalverbraucher (Otto Average-Consumer) and Lieschen Müller.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placeholder_name

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Re:Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from t... by kataklasm on Monday October 03, 2022 @04:01AM (#33064717)
Holy shit. I never made the connection with Otto Normalverbraucher. Thanks for making me click with this little piece of German trivia on the day German history was made! :)
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