to avoid misunderstandings, I didn't say there aren't. Just that German (speaking) universities had much more diversity and competition in the 19th century, which played well into the 20th.

Germany had 47 universities around 1800, whereas Britain only had four. ... had to compete with each other, which produced a much different outcome

Update

To keep this in context, "Germany" (i.e. Greater Prussia) was only united in 1871 and still was a very federalist construct with multiple kings and dukes.