Berlin - Three-quarters of Germans would welcome "a German Obama," telling pollsters a politician with the US president's charisma would do Germany good, the magazine Stern said Wednesday.

The poll, by the Forsa company, found 76 per cent were impressed by the US president, while 14 per cent said they would prefer not to have someone like Obama on the ballot and 10 per cent did not know.

The only major foreign speech of Obama's campaign for the presidency was in Germany last June, with hundreds of thousands of people crowded Berlin's Tiergarten park to get a close-up look at the candidate.

A former chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, said in an interview with another magazine, Cicero, that the first black US president should prompt cabinet-level representation for Germany's biggest ethnic minority, Turks. No person of ethnic Turkish background has ever held national office. (dpa)