Führer
[fy-ruh r; English fyoo r-er]
- leader.
- der Führer [der] /dɛr/, the leader: title of Adolf Hitler.
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Also Fuehrer.
Origin of Führer
First recorded in 1930–35
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If you were emotionalized, you saw him clearly as the Fuhrer, but anyone who was reasonable and logical was seen as the enemy.
The director of the Gestapo answered only to Heinrich Himmler, and Himmler, only to the Fuhrer himself.
The Fuhrer claimed in his will that he was a man of modest means—but he was amassing billions in property, art, and cash.
The Fuhrer may have fallen but his ideology persists in this redoubt of Nazism, untroubled by a sympathetic Argentine regime.
Lieut. Wilhelm Winter says at the outset that he is fighting for the Fatherland, but by 1941 he is fighting for the Fuhrer.
Führer
Fuehrer
- a leader: applied esp to Adolf Hitler (der Führer) while he was Chancellor
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Word Origin
German, from führen to lead
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Word Origin and History for fuhrer
Fuhrer
n.
1934, from Führer und Reichskanzler, title assumed by Hitler in 1934 as head of the German state, from German Führer "leader," from führen "to lead," from Middle High German vüeren "to lead, drive," from Old High German fuoren "to set in motion, lead," causative of Old High German faran "to go, travel," which is cognate with Old English faran (see fare (v.)). Hitler's title was modeled on Mussolini's Duce.
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