Reichskanzler

From German Reichskanzler.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌɪxsˌkan(t)slə/, /ˈɹʌɪksˌkan(t)slə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪxsˌkʌn(t)slɚ/, /ˈɹaɪksˌkʌn(t)slɚ/

Reichskanzler (plural Reichskanzlers or Reichskanzler)

1. (historical) The German Chancellor or head of government from 1871 to 1945; specifically (from 1933 to 1945), Adolf Hitler as head of the Third Reich. [from 19th c.]
   • 2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 236:

     Maximilian, in spite of the cheerful disposition which he shared with Agáta, had been convinced […] that the parvenus who had come to power in Germany […] had abandoned themselves from the first to a blind lust for conquest and destruction, taking its cue from the magic word thousand which the Reichskanzler, as we could all hear on the wireless, repeated constantly in his speeches.

• Reichskantzler (obsolete)

From Reich +‎ -s- +‎ Kanzler.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁaɪ̯çsˌkantslɐ/

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• Hyphenation: Reichs‧kanz‧ler

Reichskanzler m (strong, genitive Reichskanzlers, plural Reichskanzler, feminine Reichskanzlerin)

1. (historical) Reichskanzler (male or of unspecified gender)

• “Reichskanzler” in Duden online
• “Reichskanzler” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache