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Can "Fuehrer" be feminine? Can a female Chancellor be known as die Fuehrer?
- In standard german, the genus is a property of the word, and it does not depend on the gender of the person described by the word. (iirc Mark Twain complained about the use of "der Kopf" even for a female head.) Therefore "die Führer" is incorrect grammar. However, there is the word "die Führerin". – Hokanomono 10:22, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- The second question: No, chancellors are not regarded as leaders. If however there might be a female american president some day, and if she will chose to regard herself as a leader, the correct translation to german will be "Führerin". (compare below: "leaders of the USA") – Hokanomono 10:27, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Isn't Führer also the German word for driver, or chauffeur? RickK 01:43 26 Jun 2003 (UTC)
There is the term "Fahrzeugführer" which means "driver of the vehicle", but it's a bureaucratic term and it's not used in common language.
Quite possibly - a driving licence is a Führerschein. -- Arwel 09:48 26 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Führer means "driver" only in some composites, like "Lokführer" as told on the article page. The generic literal translation for "driver" would be "Fahrer". -- Locutus 15:12 01 Oct 2004 (UTC+2)
- In principle yes, but if the police is called to an accident the report will probably read: "der Führer des Kraftfahrzeugs..." -> the driver of the powered vehicle...
One of the most funny things I ever heard, was when Hillary Clinton visited Germany and spoke about the leaders of the USA: The interpreter translated it as Führer Bush...
- Well this should have you ROTF: ClearChannel's "George W. Bush: Our Leader" billboards (http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=442). (Meself, I'm giving up insulting Hitler by comparing him to Dubya.)
- As an aside, this (http://smoter.com/defuhrer.htm) dates the first application of "Führer" to Hitler as 1921 July 29, although of course that was merely as party leader. 142.177.18.246 21:36, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The german word 'Reich' isn't exactly the same as 'empire' (and Hitler wasnt an Emperor)...in fact, the German Empire ended during WW I. But I dont know any better tranlations of the word, only wanted to say it here.
- No, Reich is Empire. The myth of a Third Reich was central to Nazi ideology, as well as the legal form under which the german state operated during these 12 years.