Führer

See also: fuhrer, fuehrer, Fuhrer, and führer

English

Adolf Hitler - Führer of Germany from 1934 until 1945.

Alternative forms

• Fuehrer, Fuhrer, fuhrer

Etymology

Borrowed from German Führer, modelled after Italian Duce.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊə.ɹə/

  • Audio (UK)

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊɚ.ɚ/
• Homophone: furor

Noun

Führer (plural Führers or Führer)

1. (historical, Nazism, definite) Adolf Hitler when he was the chancellor of Nazi Germany.
2. (by extension) A leader, especially one exercising the powers of a tyrant.

Translations

leader exercising the powers of a tyrant

• Arabic: (has other meanings as well) دَلِيل (ar) m (dalīl), فِيرَر m (fīrar)
• Armenian: ֆյուրեր (hy) (fyurer)
• Belarusian: фю́рар m (fjúrar), фю́рэр m (fjúrer)
• Bulgarian: фю́рер m (fjúrer)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (also: head of state) 元首 (zh) (yuánshǒu), Führer (untranslated), 領袖／领袖 (zh) (lǐngxiù) (leader), 领袖 (zh) (lǐngxiù); 富勒爾／富勒尔 (Fùlēi'ěr) (rare transliteration, also used for the surname)

• Estonian: füürer
• French: Führer (fr) m
• Georgian: ფიურერი (piureri)
• Greek: Φύρερ (el) m (Fýrer)
• Hebrew: פִיהְרֶר (he) m (firer)
• Japanese: フューレル (fyūreru)
• Korean: 퓌러 (pwireo)
• Macedonian: фирер m (firer)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fører m, führer m

• Persian: پیشوا (fa) (pišvâ) (leader)
• Portuguese: führer m
• Russian: фю́рер (ru) m (fjúrɛr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фи́рер m

  Roman: fírer (sh) m

• Swedish: führer c, ^{(please verify)} förare (sv) c
• Thai: ฟือเรอร์ (fʉʉ-rəə)
• Turkish: führer
• Ukrainian: фю́рер m (fjúrer)

Adolf Hitler when chancellor

• Arabic: (has other meanings as well) دَلِيل (ar) m (dalīl), فِيرَر m (fīrar), فُورَر m (fūrar)
• Armenian: ֆյուրեր (hy) (fyurer)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 元首 (zh) (yuánshǒu)

• Danish: Føreren c
• Estonian: füürer
• French: Führer (fr) m
• Georgian: ფიურერი (piureri)
• German: (has other meanings as well) Führer (de) m
• Greek: Φύρερ (el) m (Fýrer)
• Japanese: (also: president) 総統 (ja) (そうとう, sōtō), フューレル (fyūreru)
• Korean: 총통(總統) (chongtong), 퓌러 (pwireo)
• Macedonian: фирер m (firer)
• Persian: پیشوا (fa) (pišvâ) (leader)
• Portuguese: führer m
• Russian: фю́рер (ru) m (fjúrɛr)
• Swedish: Führern c
• Turkish: führer
• Vietnamese: Quốc trưởng

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: (has other meanings as well) ^{(please verify)} دَلِيل (ar) m (dalīl), ^{(please verify)} فِيرَر m (fīrar)

See also

• Duce

Further reading

• Führer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

German

Etymology

From Middle High German füerære, vüerære, füerer, vüerer, from Old High German fôrari, equivalent to führen (“to lead”) +‎ -er. Cognate with Yiddish פֿירער (firer), Cimbrian büurar, Swedish förare. In the historical sense probably a calque of Italian Duce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfyː.ʁɐ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

Führer m (strong, genitive Führers, plural Führer, feminine Führerin)

1. guide (person who assists people by providing information, giving directions, etc.)
2. guidebook (text which provides information about a topic)
3. leader (someone who is ahead of others)

   Marktführer ― market leader

4. leader (someone who determines the actions of a group)
5. (chiefly in compounds) director, manager, commander (person in charge of something or someone)

   Geschäftsführer ― chief executive officer

   Zugführer ― leading conductor (on a train); platoon leader

6. (formal, chiefly in compounds) driver, pilot (someone who operates a vehicle of some sort)

   Führerschein ― driver's license

7. (music) fugue theme (melody in the form it appears in first in a fugue)
9. (historical, Nazism) Führer (Adolf Hitler when he was the chancellor of Nazi Germany)

Usage notes

• Führer und Reichskanzler was the official title of Adolf Hitler after the merger of the positions of Reichspräsident (“president”) and Reichskanzler (“chancellor”) in 1934. Hitler was subsequently known as der Führer in both official and common usage.
• The word is now often replaced with other terms (such as Anführer or Leiter) when referring to a guide or leader and not used in a compound. Führer is still a perfectly acceptable word, however.

Declension

Declension of Führer [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Führer	die	Führer
genitive	eines	des	Führers	der	Führer
dative	einem	dem	Führer	den	Führern
accusative	einen	den	Führer	die	Führer

Derived terms

• (guide) Bergführer, Fremdenführer
• (guide or guidebook) Museumsführer, Reiseführer, Sprachführer, Stadtführer
• (guidebook) Episodenführer, Kirchenführer, Serienführer, Spieleführer, Straßenführer
• (someone who is ahead) Marktführer; Tabellenführer
• (someone who leads a group) Judenführer, Kirchenführer, Oppositionsführer, Rädelsführer, Sektenführer, Staatsführer, Terroristenführer, Zionistenführer, Zugführer
• (director, manager) Geschäftsführer
• (driver) Fahrzeugführer, Flugzeugführer, Kraftfahrzeugführer, Kranführer, Lokomotivführer (Lokführer), Schiffsführer, Wagenführer, Zugführer (Zugsführer)
• (police job) Hundeführer
• Führerausweis, Führerschein, Führersitz, führerlos

Related terms

• Anführer
• Entführer
• Führung

Further reading

• “Führer” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Führer” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Führer” in Duden online
• Führer on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Portuguese

Noun

Führer m (plural Führer or Führers)

1. Alternative letter-case form of führer
   • 1982, J. Marcos Bach, Uma nova moral?: o fim do sistema tradicional, Vozes, page 150:

     É entre esse tipo de anormal que os ayatollás e Führers encontram os carrascos que necessitam.

     It is among this kind of abnormal that Ayatollahs and Führers find the henchmen they need.

   • 1988, Guida Fonseca, Diálogo do vento e do mar, Câmara Municipal de Sintra, page 37:

     Por causa dela ajoelham diante de Führers e papas.

     Because of it, [people] kneel before Führers and popes.

   • 2017, Luiz Bernardo Pericás (quoting Octavio Thyrso), Caio Prado Júnior: uma biografia política, Boitempo Editorial, page 1661:

     o destino do mundo e de todos os países voltará a ser conduzido pela vontade popular, e não por oligarquias ou grupos arvorados em Führers, Duces ou Chefes [...]

     the fate of the world and of all countries will once more be driven by the will of the people, and not by oligarchies nor groups perched on Führers, Duces or Chieftains [...]