Word: beamter
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Answer: Angehoriger des Zolls der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik -a member of the customs office of the German Democratic Republic. Until a few years ago, such an official would have been called simply ein Beamter (an official), and he is still called just that in West Germany. But in an effort to show that their half of the country has nothing in common with the other half, East Germany's Communist bosses are inventing and adapting a whole new lexicon of words and phrases. Explains Die Freiheit, a Communist Party news paper in the East German city of Halle...
Konrad Adenauer, Time magazine tells me, has just been reelected Chancellor of Germany (Beamter von Deutschland) after a period of prolonged uncertainty. This is so much Drucksachen. I, and several others, have known since September 27, to be precise, that Adenauer's reelection would be inevitable...
...Cologne's magnificent twin-spired cathedral. His father, a minor bureaucrat, wanted him to be a bank clerk, but young Konrad looked with awe upon the high Beamten (officials) who strode about Cologne exuding importance. He decided to get a university education so that he could be a Beamter some day too. With the help of scholarships and spare-time work, he studied law and economics, settled down to practice law in Cologne. At 30 he started up the ladder of bureaucracy, four years later he was deputy mayor...
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