Saber Rider and Sailor Moon were afaik the first anime released in germany (besides from stuff like Heidi maybe). I then ran through a very well known local tv-station, today known for bad cut-versions and bad dubs. Detective Conan, Dragonball, Kamikaze Kaito(?) Jeanne, Wedding Peach (xD) etc. were followed by all the mainstream stuff (DBZ, OP, DoReMi,Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon, Pokemon,...).
I don't know when it was, but I then actually started watching subbed anime with Death Note. I was attracted to it so much that I just stayed with "online-anime" and now it takes up way to much of my freetime