English edit

Noun edit

burgermeister (plural burgermeisters)

  1. Alternative form of bürgermeister
    • 1914, The National Association of Corporation Schools Bulletin, page 30:
      Germany’s ablest burgermeisters are among the lecturers.
    • 1996, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 963:
      He had told his burgermeisters, “We have to help these people.” They did. They poured out money for people from east Germany—jobs, money, homes and all the rest.
    • 2005, Thomas A. Glass, The Trials & Triumphs of a Regimental Commander During World War II, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
      With regard to labor, after our units entered Germany, they had called on the burgermeisters for workers, and, if there were insufficient workers, then they were augmented by German prisoners of war, primarily from the German Wehrmacht units.