Using a typewriter, `"` is the correct form to denote the quotation mark in German.

For text written by hand and letterpress printing in Germany we use `„“`

Currently these characters are displayed here by the Verdana font **„“**. 

Hopefully when this site leaves beta, it will get a default font, which renders these characters in a correct way. I have seen [Home improvement][2] leaving beta and they got a different font.

If we type „“ now, it will automatically be rendered in the correct way after we leave beta.

I found a further tool to type these characters: [Type German characters][3]. 

There is a similar tool to [type IPA phonetic symbols][4].

Both tools are web pages, i.e. no installation required.

   


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/SWwXM.jpg
  [2]: http://diy.stackexchange.com/
  [3]: http://german.typeit.org/
  [4]: http://ipa.typeit.org/