Meaning of bürgermeister | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of burgomaster.

Examples

“In that part of Hannover, for example, which is denominated the old town, which contains about 12,000 inhabitants, there are two bürgermeisters, one syndicus, four secretaries, five senators, and one auditor, making in all thirteen persons, with a competent number of clerks and messengers.”

“There was, it is true, a public reconciliation between the bürgermeisters and the president of the Sixty-four; […]”

“The efficient chief administrators of Prussian cities, the bürgermeisters, are selected and retained in office in the same way.”

“Germany’s ablest burgermeisters are among the lecturers.”

“He had told his burgermeisters, “We have to help these people.” They did. They poured out money for people from east Germany—jobs, money, homes and all the rest.”

“With regard to labor, after our units entered Germany, they had called on the burgermeisters for workers, and, if there were insufficient workers, then they were augmented by German prisoners of war, primarily from the German Wehrmacht units.”

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