I would never say I understand Hegel, but I studied Hegelian philosophy as part of my political philosophy at University, and I consider Hegelian Dialectics to have been a major influence on my thinking in life, and of course the link to Marxian class analysis. While I'm not a Marxist, he got a lot right and is still very relevant, philosophically, to today.

I get annoyed reading the German philosophers, but more than Friedrich Hegel. Just pay no attention to him . he was useless, did not accomplish anything of use to his fellow humans or the progress of society as a whole.