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Meister (pronounced ⓘ) means 'master' in German (as in master craftsman, or as an honorific title such as Meister Eckhart).The word is akin to master and maestro.In sports, Meister is used for the current national, European or world champion (e.g. Deutscher Meister, Europameister, Weltmeister).
Though there is a professional qualification called Meister ("master craftsman"), and there is also an outdated honorific called Meister (in this case roughly equivalent to "goodman"; in use, when "Herr" was only applied to high-ranking persons, for the non-dependent men below them), this was never a honorific specifically in use for master ...
Master craftsman certificate – Handwerkskammer Dresden – July 7, 1958 A master discusses a vacuum compressor with his apprentice boy and several other craftsmen.. In Germany, the master craftsman (Meister) is the highest professional qualification in crafts and is a state-approved grade.
Meister, "master", also as a suffix: –meister; in German, Meister typically refers to the highest educational rank of a craftsperson, various ranks, and to sports champions up to Weltmeister. Note: Meister does not refer to the academic master degree (which is now Master or formerly Magister, formerly Diplom-engineer and so forth)
In German, acronyms retain the grammatical gender of their primary noun. [ 1 ] Syllable words ( German : Silbenkurzwörter ), or syllabic abbreviation or clipping, is a particularly German method of creating an abbreviation by combining the first two or more letters of each word to form a single word.
Burmistras , derived from German. Buergermeeschter (Luxembourgish) Polgármester , derived from German. Burmistrz , a mayoral title, derived from German. The German form Oberbürgermeister ('Supreme Burgomaster') is often translated as Nadburmistrz. The German-derived terminology reflects the involvement of German settlers in the early history ...
Kapellmeister (/ k ə ˈ p ɛ l m aɪ s t ər / kə-PEL-my-stər, US also / k ɑː ˈ-/ kah-, [1] [2] German: [kaˈpɛlˌmaɪstɐ] ⓘ), from German Kapelle (chapel) and Meister (master), literally "master of the chapel choir", designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel ...
A Diplom (German: ⓘ, from Ancient Greek: δίπλωμα, romanized: diploma) is an academic degree in the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and a similarly named degree in some other European countries including Albania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine and only for engineers in France, Greece, Hungary ...