Führer

Also Fueh·rer

[fy-ruhr, fyoor-er]

noun

German.

1. leader.

2. der Führer the leader: title of Adolf Hitler.

Führer

/ ˈfyːrər, ˈfjʊərə /

noun

1. a leader: applied esp to Adolf Hitler ( der Führer ) while he was Chancellor

Word History and Origins

Origin of Führer¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Word History and Origins

Origin of Führer¹

German, from führen to lead

Example Sentences

Germany this time is personified by a defendant: Hermann Göring, head of the Luftwaffe and second only to the Führer in the military command.

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This question, central to my book, mostly goes unaddressed in Mr. Simms’s piece, which merely repeats his argument that the Führer’s main concern was the Anglo-American world.

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To be sure, the Führer was deeply concerned with both, but his main concern was the dominance of the Anglo-Saxon and plutocratic behemoths of the British Empire and the U.S., whose power threatened to strangle Germany.

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And when the Führer drew up his will as the Red Army closed in on his bunker in April 1945, he made no reference to either communism or the Soviet Union but instead lashed out against “the international money and finance conspirators” who had, in his opinion, plunged Europe into war once again.

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Stewart called himself "Fuhrer" of the Einsatz 14 group and appointed an undercover officer called Blackheart as the "Obergruppenfuhrer", which the other two defendants also joined.

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