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...Federal Civil Service Chief Franz Löschnak: "A title should describe precisely the level of employment of a civil servant and should be pronounceable, at the very least." Thus an Akademischer Oberrestaurator (restorer in a museum) will become a mere Oberkommissär, or first-class commissioner. A Polizeisanitätskommissar (police health commissioner) will be reduced to just plain Kommissär, while a Kellereiinspektor (inspector of state wine cellars) will henceforth be known only as an Amtsrat, or office counselor. In a curious bow to tradition, Austria's 100 Wirkliche Hofräte (real court counselors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: No Longer Entitled | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

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