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AAA Abgabenbelastung tax load Abgassteuer car exhaust tax Abmahnung warning Absatz sale, market Abschiebung expulsion/to expel, deportation Abstimmung, freie free vote Aktiengesellschaft joint-stock company Al Kaida, El Kaida Al-Qaeda alle Angaben ohne Gewaehr errors and omissions excepted Alleingang, nationaler unilateral/solitary move Alleviten Allawites Ampelkoalition red-yellow-green/traffic light coalition Amtsgericht District Court anfechten challenge, contest Angestellte von Banken/Bausparkassen employees of banks and building-and-loan associations Angestelltengewerkschaft, Deutsche (DAG) national union of employees ankurbeln spur Anstachelung zum (Rassen-)Hass hate mongering Anstiftung zu incitement to Anti-Baby-Pille birth-control pill Antipersonenminen anti-personnel mines, booby traps Antrittsbesuch first visit Anwaltschaft, (Bundes-) (Federal) Public Prosecutor's Office Arbeitgeber employer Arbeitgeberpraesident president of the federal employers' association Arbeitnehmer-Entsendegesetz law on the posting of workers [a minimum wage law for the German construction business protecting native workers from low wage competition by posted workers from other EU countries] Arbeitnehmerfluegel labour wing Arbeitnehmersparzulage employee savings bonus Arbeitsamt labour office Arbeitsbeschaffungsprogramm job-creation scheme Arbeitsdirektor (AG) executive for labour relations Arbeitsgericht, Landes-/Bundes- Regional/Federal Labour Court Arbeitslosengeld unemployment benefit Arbeitslosengeld II unemployment assistance Arbeitslosenhilfe unemployment assistance Arbeitsminister minister of employment Arbeitsniederlegung walkout Arbeitszeitkorridor flex time Arbeitszeitverkuerzung bei vollem Lohnausgleich reduction of working hours without wage reductions/whilst maintaining wage levels artgerechte Tierhaltung (s.a. freilaufend) ??? Asylbewerberschluessel standard refugee distribution policy Asylsuchender asylum-seeker Atommuell nuclear waste Atomwaffensperrvertrag Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty auf die Strasse gehen (protestieren) take to the streets Aufbau Ost Eastern German development programme Aufschwung economic growth, [stärker:] boom Aufsichtsamt fuer das Kreditwesen, Bundes- Federal Office for Bank Supervision Aufsichtsamt fuer das Versicherungswesen, Bundes- Federal Office for Insurance Companies Aufsichtsrat(svorsitzender) (chairman of the) board (of directors) Aufsichtsratsmitglied (AG) Member of the Supervisory Board Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender (AG) Chairman of the Supervisory Board Ausbildungsabgabe training levy Auslaenderbeauftragter commissioner for foreigners, Foreigners' Ombudsman Auslieferungshaft extradition custody Ausschuss der Regionen (EU) EU Committee of the Regions Aussenminister Foreign minister Aussiedler, Spaetausssiedler ethnic German living abroad Aussperrung lockout Auswaertiges Amt Foreign Ministry Autonome(r) (masked) left-radical activist BBB [zum Anfang] BAfoeG (Bundesausbildungsfoerderungsgesetz) federal education/training assistance [act] Bankrott, betruegerischer fraudulent bankruptcy Bargeld und angelegtes Kapital currency in circulation and deposits Bauernverband farmers' association Bauminister, -senator Minister of Building and Construction Bausparen targeted saving for self-owned homes Bauwirtschaft construction and building industry Bayern Bavaria BDI siehe: Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Beamtenbund, Deutscher national union of civil servants Beamter civil servant, government official Beauftragter commissioner, ombudsman/woman/person Bedarfsgemeinschaft resource sharing communities Befangenheitsantrag stellen to challenge judges for bias Befehl (gerichtl.) writ Begnadigung release on ministerial/presidential licence Behoerde government authority Beihilfe zu aiding and abetting (to aid and abet) Beirat (AG) Advisory Board Bekennerschreiben letter claiming responsibility Beklagter, Angeklagter defendant Belastungszeuge witness for the prosecution Beratungsschein (bei Schwangerschaftsabbruechen) proof of mandatory counseling Berufseinstigesjahr job starter year Berufsgenossenschaft employers' liability insurance association Berufsgenossenschaft workers compensation board Besatzungsmacht occupying power Besatzungsstatut occupation statute Beschaffungskriminalitaet procurement criminality Besitzstaende achieved assets, values Besoldungsanpassungsgesetz law on civil service wage reconciliation; law on public employees pay scale reconciliation Betaeubungsmittelgesetz narcotics law Betriebspruefung company audit Betriebsrat workers'/employees' representation [Erklaerung] Betrug fraud Beugehaft coercive detention Bewaehrung suspended sentence; on probation bewaffnet ... (Verbrechen) armed ... Bezirksverbaende district society, organisation Bezirksverbaende district unions (Gewerkschaft) Billig -arbeiter, -lohn low-pay workforce, low-pay wage BIP (Bruttoinlandsprodukt) GNP (gross national product) bis (zeitl.) till/until (during the whole time), by (Frist) Bischofskonferenz conference of bishops blauer Brief (EU) early warning Blauhelm -soldat, -einsatz UN soldier, UN mission Bluter haemophiliac Blutkonserve blood conserve, supply in blood bank, donated blood Boden-Luft-Rakete surface-to-air missile Boerse ... stock market was bullish/bearish, unchanged Boerse schloss ... stock market closed up/down ... points; ... in heavy/light trading Boersenaufsichtsamt Securities & Exchange Commission ? Boersenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels German book dealers and publishers assoc. Branche, (z.B. Automobil-) (car) industry, trade Brandanschlag arson attack, fire bombing Braunkohle lignite Brennelemente nuclear fuel elements Brennstaebe nuclear fuel rods Brief(kurs) selling rate Briefbombe letter bomb Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP) gross national product (GNP) BSP (Bruttosozialprodukt) GDP (gross domestic product) Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen, B90/G Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen Buergerbegehren popular initiative Buergerentscheid referendum Buergermeister (allg., Leiter der Stadtverwaltung) mayor, head of municipal administration; (Nds. und NRW, der i.A. ehrenamtliche Vorsitzende des Gemeinderates) head of municipal parliament; (HH und B, der Chef der Regierung (Senat)) head of federal state government Buergerschaft state parliament Bummelstreik go-slow Bund der Steuerzahler Bund der Steuerzahlerzahler (taxpayers' association) Bund der Vertriebenen (BdV) Sudeten wartime expellees' association Bund fuer Umwelt- und Naturschutz (BUND) BUND (environmentalist pressure group), Germany's Nature Protection Alliance Bundes... siehe auch unter dem Hauptwort Bundesaerztekammer Federal General Medical Council Bundesamt fuer ... Federal Department of ... Bundesamt fuer Luftfahrt siehe: Luftfahrtbundesamt Bundesamt fuer Strahlenschutz, Federal Department for Radiation Safety Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz Federal Department for the Tutelage of the Constitution (domestic Intelligence agency) Bundesanstalt fuer Arbeit Federal Labour Office Bundesbahn AG, Deutsche German Railways Corporation Bundesbank Germany's central bank Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte federal commissioner for data privacy Bundesfinanzhof Federal Fiscal Court Bundesgerichtshof Federal High Court Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS) border guards Bundesland state Bundesliga, 1./2. Bundesliga, First/Second Division Bundesministerium des Innern, BMI Federal Ministry of the Interior Bundesministerium fuer Arbeit und Sozialordnung, BMA Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs Bundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung u. Technologie, BMBF Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology Bundesministerium fuer Ernährung, Landwirtschaft u. Forsten, BML Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry Bundesministerium fuer Familie, Senioren, Frauen u. Jugend, BMFSFJ Federal Ministry of Family, Seniors, Women and Youth Bundesministerium fuer Finanzen, BMF Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium fuer Gesundheit, BMG Federal Ministry of Health Bundesministerium fuer Justiz, BMJ Federal Ministry of Justice Bundesministerium fuer Raumordnung, Bauwesen u. Staedtebau, BMBau Federal Ministry of Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development Bundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz u. Reaktorsicherheit, BMU German Federal Environment Ministry Bundesministerium fuer Verkehr, BMV Federal Ministry of Transport Bundesministerium fuer Verteidigung, BMVg Federal Ministry of Defense Bundesministerium fuer Wirtschaft, BMWi Federal Ministry of Economics Bundesministerium fuer Wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit u. Entwicklung, BMZ Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Bundesnachrichtendienst German Foreign Intelligence Agency Bundespraesident German President Bundesrat Bundesrat, upper house of the parliament Bundestag Bundestag, lower house of the parliament Bundestagsausschuss Commission of the Bundestag / Bundestag Committee Bundestagsausschuss fuer Auswertiges und Verteidigung parliamentary commission for foreign affairs and defense Bundestagsinnenausschuss Committee for Interior Affairs Bundesverband der Deutschen Arbeitgeber Federal Alliance of German Employers Bundesverband der deutschen Industrie Federation of German Industry Bundesverband der Mittelstaendischen Wirtschaft Federation of the Mittelstand Economy Bundesverband der Tierversuchsgegner Federal Association of People Against Animal Experiments Bundesverdienstkreuz (State Honour) Bundesverdienstkreuz, Grosses Federal Germany's highest civilian Order of Merit, the "Grosses Bundesverdienstkreuz" Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbaende (BDA) Federal Alliance of German Employers' Associations Bundesversammlung Presidential Election Council, Federal Convention [die Mitglieder des Bundestags und in gleicher Anzahl gewaehlte Vertreter der Landtage (meistens Buerger oder Persönlichkeiten des öffentlichen Lebens)] Bundesversicherungsanstalt fuer Angestellte (BfA) BfA (Federal Pension Plan Agency for Employees) Bundeswehr Bundeswehr, armed forces Bundeswehrbeauftragter Commissioner/Parliamentary Ombudsman for the Armed Forces Bundeswehreinsatz engagement of the Bundeswehr BVG (Bundesverfassungsgericht) Federal Administrative Court CCC [zum Anfang] CASTOR cask for storage and transport of radioactive material CDU, Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands Christian-Democratic Union CSU, Christlich Soziale Union (nur in Bayern) Christian-Social Union DDD [zum Anfang] DAG siehe: Deutsche Angestelltengewerkschaft Darlehen mortgage, loan Datenschutzbeauftragter data privacy commissioner, commissioner for data privacy DAX DAX DDR GDR (German Democratic Republic) Der Spiegel the news magazine Der Spiegel Deutsche Angestelltengewerkschaft (DAG) national union of employees Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung German Association of Mathematicians Deutsche Postgewerkschaft (DPG) German Postal Union Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB) national trade union federation, German federation of unions Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag (DIHT) Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce [laut DIHT-Webseite] Deutscher Staedte- und Gemeindebund Council of German Districts Deutscher Staedtetag Council of German Cities Devisen foreign currency Diaeten parliamentary pay/remuneration/salary, emoluments Dienst nach Vorschrift work to rule Diplomatischer Corps diplomatic body (corps) Direktmandat direct vote Diskontsatz discount rate Dorsch (Ostsee u. Jugendform) = Kabeljau cod Drehgestell (beim Zug) bogey Dreikoenigstag Epiphany Drittes Reich Third Reich Druecker (Zeitschriftenwerber) pusher Durchsuchungsbefehl search warrant EEE [zum Anfang] Eckwert cornerstone, base/key rate Ehegattensplitting joint tax declaration (for spouses) Ehrenvorsitzender (Verb.) Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors Eigenheim owner-occupied house Eigenheimzulage subsidy to apply to the construction of a house Eigenkapital own/private capital, capital resources, capital, stock and reserve, equity Eilentscheidung (jur.) urgency decision ? Eilverfahren expedited proceedings/trial/case Eingreiftruppe, schnelle rapid response force Einheitsfonds Unity Fund einmotten to mothball ("Ontario to scrap mothballed reactors" The Globe and Mail) Einnahmeausfall loss of income, loss of revenue Einsatzbereitschaft (mil.) combat readiness Einzeletat budget position(s) Eishockey hockey Elterngeld parenting money, parenting payment EMNID polling research institute EMNID Endlagerung (nuclear) waste repository Energiewirtschaft energy sector Entfuehrung (Flugzeug) hijacking Entfuehrung (Person) kidnapping, hostage taking entgleisen derail Entlastung (eines Amtsinhabers) discharge, approval Entlastung (von Anschuldigungen) exoneration, to clear Entscheidung ruling, finding Entsendegesetz (Bauarbeiter) law on payment of foreign workers seconded to German construction sites Entsendegesetz (Beamte) law on secondment Entsendegesetz (Soldaten) law on deployment Entsendegesetz, Arbeitnehmer- law on the posting of workers [a minimum wage law for the German construction business protecting native workers from low wage competition by posted workers from other EU countries] Entsenderichtlinie ?target rule? Entsorgung waste disposal Erblastentilgungsfond Debt Redemption Fund Erlass (gerichtl.) writ Erlass einer einstweiliger Verfuegung to grant an injunction Ermittlungsverfahren preliminary investigations Ernennungsurkunde letter of appointment erpressen extort, blackmail, hold someone to ransom Erpresser extortionist/extortioner (nur BE), blackmailer Erpressung (a) extortion (Androhung von Gewalt) Erpressung (b) blackmail(ing) (Androhung von Skandal) Ersatzkrankenkasse substitute public health insurance/fund/scheme Erststimme candidate-vote, first-past-the-post vote Ertragsanteil [a calculated percentage of total retirement pay, at an average of around 32%, depending on several factors such as retirement age, total amount, any collateral income] a complex formula determines what portion, if any, of pension income may be taxed, and at what rate; in practice, the formula means that average pension recipients pay no tax on their pensions Erziehungsgeld child-care benefit Erziehungsurlaub child-care leave Europaeischer Einigungsprozess European unification process Europäische Einigung European unification europäischer Integrationsprozess process of European integration Europaminister der Laender state ministers for European concerns Europarat Council of Europe Existenzminimum official subsistence level Expertengutachten expert witness FFF [zum Anfang] fahrlaessig by negligence Familienlastenausgleich incentives for young families ??? Familienminister Minister for the Family FDP, Freie Demokratische Partei Liberal-Democratic Party Fehlbelegungsabgabe penalty for improper use of fixed-price housing Feinstaub fine particle matter festnehmen, vorlaeufig to take into custody, to hold Feuerschutzabgabe fire fighting levy Finanzamt revenue office Finanzausschuss (Einnahmen) ways and means committee (USA) Finanzbeamter fiscal officer Finanzgericht Fiscal Court Finanzminister, -ium Finance Minister, Ministry of Finance Finanzpolitik fiscal policy Flaechentarifvertrag in collective agreements: Global awards, as opposed to localised awards or enterprise awards. They would cover all of Germany, regardless of 'poor' or 'rich' regions/businesses. Fleischerhandwerk butchery Flensburger Punktedatei traffic penalty register Fluesterasfalt, Fluesterasphalt whisper asphalt, porous asphalt, 'soundblocking' tarseal Folgerezept refill Fraktion parliamentary group, faction Fraktionsvorsitzender parliamentary party leader Fraktionszwang party discipline Freiberufler self-employed freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordng. free democratic order/society freilaufend (Huehner) free range freisprechen (jmd.) acquit, find s.o. not guilty Freiwillige Feuerwehr volunteer fire department Fremdverschulden third-party responsibility Fruehrente early retirement Fuehrungsgremium governing body Fuenf Weise s. Sachverstaendigenrat Fundis (Fraktion der Gruenen) fundamentalists, hard-core, radical Fussball soccer GGG [zum Anfang] Ganztagsschule full day school Gastarbeiter Gastarbeiter (foreign worker, guest worker) Gauck-Behoerde Authority overseeing the files of Stasi, the former East German State Security Gefaengnisstrafe bekommen the accused received prison sentences of six to 13 years Gefluegelpest pseudo fowl pest, poultry plague, avian influenza, bird flu, (Exotic) Newcastle Disease gegen Unbekannt versus persons unknown Geiselnahme taking of hostages, to take s.o. hostage Geld(kurs) buying rate Geldmengenziel monetary target (ranges) Geldmengenziel (M1) target (range) for narrow money (M1) Geldmengenziel (M3) target (range) for broad money (M3) Gemeinde (local) community Gemeinde (Kirchen-) congregation Gemeinde (pol.) municipality gemeinsamer (Mord etc.) joint (murder etc.) Generalbevollmaechtigter (AG) General Manager Generalmajor general major Generalsekretaer secretary-general Generalstaatsanwalt Attorney-General, Chief State Prosecutor geringfuegige Beschaeftigung less-than-part-time jobs Gesamtmetall employers association for the steel and engineering industry Gesamtverband des Deutschen Steinkohlebergbau Federal Association of the German Coal Mining Industries Geschaeftsfuehrender Gesellschafter (KG) Managing Partner Geschaeftsfuehrender Partner (OHG) Managing Partner geschaeftsfuehrender Praesident caretaker/acting president Geschaeftsfuehrer (Firma) General Manager[GmbH], Managing Director[Verb., GmbH] Geschaeftsfuehrer (Partei) secretary-general Gesellschafter stockholder [GmbH], partner [OHG] Gesellschafterversammlung(GmbH) stockholders' meeting -gesetz (z.B. Einkommensteuer-) law Gesetzgeber the legislative, the lawmaker(s) Gespraechsleitfaden interview guide gestehen the accused pleaded guilty to 2nd degree murder Gesundheitsminister Minister of Health Gewerbeertragssteuer trade tax on profit Gewerbekapitalsteuer local trade tax on capital Gewerbesteuer trade tax Gewerkschaft Bergbau union for the mining industry Gewerkschaft der Eisenbahnbeschaeftigten union of railway employees Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW) union for education and science Gewerkschaft Handel-Banken-Versicherung (HBV) union for the trade, bank, and insurance industry Gewerkschaft Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststaetten (NGG) Union for the food and restaurant sector Gewerkschaft oeffentliche Dienste-Transport-Verkehr (oeTV) Union for the public service and transportation sector Gewerkschaftsfunktionaer union official Gewerkschaftstag labour union convention Gewerkschaftsvertreter union representative GmbH privately held corporation Gorbatschow Mikhail Gorbachev Grosse Koalition Grand Coalition Grosse Strafkammer first chamber of the regional court Grosse Tarifkommission high-ranking union-committee deciding on the collective bargaining strategy Grosser Lauschangriff great surveillance attack, grand bugging attack Grossversuch large-scale testing Gruen-Alternative Liste (GAL) Green-Alternative Party Grundgesetz Grundgesetz (constitution), Basic Law GUS (Gemeinschaft Unabhaengiger Staaten) CIS (Community of Independent States) Gymnasium upper secondary school, grammar school HHH [zum Anfang] Haestraeger people in traditional carnival costumes Haftbefehl arrest warrant Haftrichter judge at committal hearing (?) Halbschwergewicht light-heavyweight Handelsbilanz trade balance Handlungsbevollmaechtigter (AG) assistant manager Handwerksverband handicraft association, contractors association Hauptangeklagter principal defendant Hauptausschuss (Verb.) executive committee Hauptgeschaeftsfuehrer (Verb.) general executive manager Hauptschule standard secondary school Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie German building contractors' association Hauptversammlung (AG) stockholders' meeting Haushalt budget Haushaltsausschuss (Ausgaben) appropriations committee (USA) Haushaltsloch budget deficit haushaltspolitischer Sprecher der XYZ-Fraktion budgetary spokesperson for the XYZ faction Hausverbot restraining order HBV siehe: Gewerkschaft Handel-Banken-Versicherung Hebesatz ([Grund]Steuer-) local [property] tax multiplier Heer ground troops Hessen Hesse Hetzschrift, -kampagne smear publication, smear campaign Hinspiel (i.d. Bundesliga spielt jede Mannschaft 2x gegen eine andere Mannschaft) first leg (game) Hochseefischerei deep-sea fishery Hockey field hockey Huehnerpest siehe Geflügelpest humanitaere Gruende, aus h. G. (on) compassionate grounds I I I [zum Anfang] Ich-AG Me Incorporated Ifo Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung Ifo Institute for Economic Research IG Bau-Steine-Erden construction industry union IG Metall union for metal, engineering and electronics in Brand setzen set on fire Industrie- und Handelskammer Chamber of Commerce Innenminister Minister of the Interior innerdeutsche Grenze German-German border Institut fuer Ernaehrungsforschung Institute for Nutritional Sciences Intendant director ?, president-elect Internationale Schutztruppe (ISAF) International Security Assistance Force Islamist Islamic extremist, Islamist JJJJ [zum Anfang] Jahressteuergesetz annual tax law Judenverfolgung persecution of the Jews (not: Jewish pers.) Jugendschoeffengericht jury juvenile court Jugendstrafe juvenile arrest, juvenile detention juristisch zur Verantwortung ziehen sue; hold accountable; take s.o. to court for s.th. Justizminister Minister of Justice KKKK [zum Anfang] Kabeljau = Dorsch (Ostsee u. Jugendform) cod Kammergericht higher court Kammergericht (Berlin) Superior Court of Justice of Berlin Kampfeinsatz shoot-to-kill mission Kanzler, Bundes- Chancellor Kanzleramt, Bundes- Chancellor's Office Kanzleramtsminister Secretary of the Chancellor's Office Kanzlermehrheit the absolute majority of all members of the Bundestag Kanzlerrunde talks at the Chancellor's office Kapitalsteuer capital gains tax Kapitalverkehrsbilanz balance on capital account Kartellamt Anti-Trust Office Kassenaerztliche Bundesvereinigung National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians(Quelle: http://www.kbv.de/international/international100.htm) Kassenarzt physician registered with health insurance funds Katholikentag Catholic church congress, Catholic church convention Kaution bail Kiew Kiev Kinderfreibetrag child allowance Kindergeld child benefit Kirchenasyl asylum granted by church, church refuge/sanctuary Kirchentag church congress, church convention Kirchentagspraesident president of the (xxx) church convention Klaeger (Zivilrecht) plaintiff, claimant klagen sue, file charges, lay charges Klausurtagung seclusion meeting, meeting behind closed doors Koalitionsregierung coalition government Koeln Cologne Koerperverletzung (schwere) (grievous) bodily harm, physical injury Kohlepfennig energy tax (support of coal industry) Kombilohn combination wage (i.e. government-subsidized paycheck; workscheme where wages for unskilled labour are topped up by government) Kommanditgesellschaft (KG) Limited Partnership Kommanditist (KG) Limited Partner Kommission (= Ausschuss) committee, but: Commission of the EU Kommission (= Delegation) commission Kommune local council Komplementaer (KG) General Partner Konjunktur business cycle Kontrollkommission control commission Konzertierte Aktion cooperation agreement between state, industry and unions) Kooperationsrat Council on Cooperation Kosovo-Albaner Kosovar Albanian Krankenhausnotopfer an additional emolument exacted from public health insurance members for hospital refurbishment) Krankenkasse A health insurance institution which collects contributions from insured individuals and employers and grants payments in the event of illness. At present there are almost 1,300 in existence, divided into statutory public, guild, seafarers' and company health insurance funds and mineworkers' and white-collar workers' health insurance funds (an approved alternative fund, i.e. "Ersatzkasse", see social security obligation ) and private health insurance funds. (http://www.eurofound.ie/emire/germany.html) Krankenkassenbeitrag health insurance contribution Krawall riot Kreditabwicklungsfond Credit Fund Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau Reconstruction Loan Corporation Kreis (Land-) district, District of XY-town Kriminalamt, Bundes-/Landes- federal/state criminal police (agency) Kronzeuge crown witness KSZE / OSZE CSCE / OSCE kuendigen (durch Arbeitgeber), Kuendigung lay off (Kündigung: lay-off), dismiss, sack, fire, give the "pink slip" Kultusministerium Ministry of Culture/Cultural Issues Kur sanatorium/rehabilitation treatments Kurzprogramm (Eiskunstlauf) short program(me) LLLL [zum Anfang] Ladenschlussgesetz business hour law Ladenschlusszeiten business/shop/shopping/store/store closing/trading hours Laenderausgleichsfond the equalization-of-burdens fund Laenderfinanzausgleich fiscal equalisation, (federal) transfer payments, fiscal federalism Laenderrat (B90/Gruene) high-ranking party committee Landesgruppe (CSU) CSU members of parliament Landesvorsitzender chair of the [state] [party] Landeswahlleiter head of regional election office Landgericht (Ober-) (Higher) Regional Court Landkreis district, District of XY-town Landrat District President Landratsamt district administration Landsmannschaft, Schlesische Silesian Traditional Association Landtag state assembly/parliament Lauschangriff, Grosser grand bugging attack, great surveillance attack Lebenshaltungskosten consumer price index Lebenskultur Lebenskultur (art of living) Leihstimmenkampagne giving the party-vote to a small party and the candidate-vote to the larger coalition partner Leistungsbilanz balance on current account Leitkultur guiding culture, defining culture, lead-culture, key culture, German culture as a guideline, reference culture Leitzinsen key short-term interest rate Lesung the bill has passed the 3rd reading Linksruck push to the left Lohnfortzahlung paid sick leave, sick pay Lohnkostenniveau level of labour cost Lohnnebenkosten indirect wage costs, fringe benefits, (benefit contributions paid by employers), wage fringes Lombardsatz lombard rate Luftfahrtbundesamt / Bundesamt fuer Luftfahrt Federal Department of Aviation Luftwaffe air force MMM [zum Anfang] Maennerriege 'Old Boys'-network. Riege is a group of men doing athletics, together. Magnetschwebebahn high-speed magnetic levitation train Mallorca Majorca (Insel), Palma de Mallorca (Hauptstadt) Marine navy Markterschliessung entering (a) new market(s) Masseneinkommen mass income ? Massenkarambolage, Massenunfall pile-up accident Mastschwein hog (AE), pig, swine (BE) Maul- und Klauenseuche foot-and-mouth disease, hoof and mouth disease Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Menschenraub abduction Menschenrechtler civil rights activist Menschenrechtskonvention Human Rights Convention menschliches Versagen human error Milliarde billion, bn Mindestlohn minimal living income / wage Mindestreserve minimum reserve ratio Minensuchgeschwader mine-detection squadron Minister Minister Ministerialdirektor Assistant secretary Ministerialdirigent Junior assistant secretary Ministerialerlass Ministerial order Ministerialrat Principal Ministerium Ministry Ministerpraesident State Premier Ministerrat Cabinet (Council) Mitangeklagter co-defendant Mitbestimmung (Arbeiter-, betriebliche) worker participation in management Mittaeter accomplice Mittellandkanal (German) Midlands Channel Mittelstand middle class (foot note 3) Mittelstandsvereinigung (Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsvereinigung der CDU/CSU) Small and Medium Entrepreneurs Association; eher wörtlich: Association representing the middle class Mobilitaetszulage travel allowance ? Mord murder Mordverdacht suspected for murder Mutterschaftsurlaub maternity leave Mutterschutz motherhood leave NNN [zum Anfang] Nachforderung afterclaim, extra claim Nachrichten der letzten site News from the Far Site Nachtragshaushalt budget update Nachwuchs prospective/future scratch players Nahost Middle-East (and not "Near-East") Nebenklaeger third-party action Neigetechnikzug (Pendolino) train with tilting technology Neonazi neonazi Neuverschuldung budget deficit, new debts Niedersachsen Lower Saxony Niederungen (Wetterbericht) low-lying areas Nobelpreistraeger Nobel laureate Noetigung duress, coercion, intimidation Nordrhein-Westfalen North Rhine-Westphalia Normenkontrollklage to challenge a law in the Federal Constitutional Court, petition to the FCC to override a law because it is seen to violate personal rights NPD, National-Demokratische Partei Deutschlands [rechtsextreme Partei] OOO [zum Anfang] Oberbuergermeister Mayor (kreisfreie Staedte in NRW u. Nds.) Oberflaechenhaftung (Strasse) surface grip Oberlandesgericht Higher Regional Court Obrigkeitshoerigkeit authoritarian serfdom oeffentlicher Dienst Germany's public services (public sector) oeffnungsklausel escape clause OHG Partnership Orden wider den tierischen Ernst Medal against Deadly Seriousness Organisation der Kriminalbeamten organization of detective Orkan severe/violent/hurricane-force storm,hurricane Ossie Ossie Ostermarsch Easter march Ostseerat Baltic Sea Council Ozonloch hole in the ozone layer, ozone hole Ozonverordnung ozone threshold(?) PPP [zum Anfang] Paepstlicher Nuntius papal delegate Paketbombe package bomb Parteifuehrung party leadership Parteiordnungverfahren internal proceedings (by the SPD, z.B.) Parteipraesidium party board/council Parteiprogramm party platform Parteitag, Bundes-/Landes- federal/state party conference Patientenbeteiligung patient participation in the cost of medicine PDS, Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus Party of Democratic Socialism (former communists) PEN International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists Penner bum, slacker, "you snooze - you loose", drifter; vagrant; hobo; tramp; derelict; straggler; (blighter), ausführlich Pension pension (of tenured government employees [Beamte], paid by the government in return for lower pay) Persoenlich haftender Gesellschafter (KG) General Partner Petitionsausschuss parliamentary petitions committee Pflegeversicherung care insurance Pille danach morning-after contraception PISA Programme for International Student Assessment Plaedoyer final arguments, final address ploetzlicher Kindstod cot death, SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) Pokal der Pokalsieger (soccer) Cup Winners' Cup Politbuero politburo Politikverdrossenheit sulkiness about politics Praeimplantationsdiagnostik (PID) preimplantation genetic testing Praesident (Verb.) President Praesidium (eines Verbandes) board of directors, executive board, steering committee Praxisgebuehr medical office fee, user fee preisbereinigt in real terms Prionenerkrankungen prion (proteinaceous infectious particles) diseases Privatkundengeschaeft (Bank) private banking Prokurist (AG) ; authorized officer QQQ [zum Anfang] Quartalsgewinn first/second/third/fourth quarter earnings Quellensteuer allg.: pay-as-you-go-tax; tax that is deducted at the source, i.e. tax on capital income is deducted by the bank räuberisch rapacious räuberische Erpressung rapacious extortion RRR [zum Anfang] Radlager (sg.) wheel bearings (pl.) Radreifen (beim ICE) (wheel/steel) rims, double-reinforced metal tires, wheel hoops Rand (N.N. sagte am Rande von Veranstaltung X in B., ...) In passing while attending the X event, N.N. said ...While in B. for the X. event, N. said in passing ... Raps Canola (tradename; rape variety with little erucic acid and glucosinolates), rape, rapeseed, oil-seed rape Rasterfahndung computer search Raub robbery Raumfahrtunternehmen space mission / space enterprise Realos (Fraktion der Gruenen) Realists, Moderates Realschule intermediate secondary school Rechnungshof, Bundes-/Landes- Fed./State Court of Auditors -recht (z.B. Beamtendienst-) code Rechtsanspruch right rechtsextrem extrem rightist Rechtsruck push to the right Rede halten deliver a speech Regierung government Regierungskoalition government, governing coalition Regierungskreise government ranks Regionalausschuss der EU EU Committee of the Regions Reichensteuer wealth tax Reichsbund [a social organization] Reichskristallnacht, Reichspogromnacht Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass in 1938 when Nazi thugs launched the pogrom against the Jews [Washington Post] Rente pension (of workers and employees, paid by their contributions) Rentenkassen pension plan agencies ? Rentenueberleitungsgesetz pension transferal law Rezession recession, slowdown Rheinland-Pfalz Rhineland-Palatinate Rinderpest rinderpest, cattle-plague, serapis Rinderwahnsinn (BSE) mad cow disease (BSE, bovine spongiform encephalitis) Ring deutscher Makler Association of German Real Estate Agents Ringfahndung cordon of police, cordon search Risiko- und Beteiligungskapital capital for equity and debt financing Risikostrukturausgleich balance payment, risk equity payment Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) Red Army Faction Rote Karte (Fussball) red card, ejection from a game Rueckmeldegebuehr registration fee (at university for each term) Rueckruf recall: Car manufacturer BMW asks 75'000 owners to return their cars to BMW dealers for checking the seat heating Rueckspiel (i.d. Bundesliga spielt jede Mannschaft 2x gegen eine andere Mannschaft) second leg (game) Rundfunkstaatsvertrag inter-state broadcasting treaty; regulations on public broadcasting SSS [zum Anfang] Sachsen Saxony Sachsen-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt Sachverstaendigenrat (zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichenEntwicklung) German Council of Economic Experts (Quelle: www.sachverstaendigenrat-wirtschaft.de) Sanierungskonzept rehabilitation plan Sarajewo Sarajevo Satzung (einer Partei), Bundes- federal statutes/charter Schaden: x DM Schaden x DM worth of damage Schadenfreude Schadenfreude, malicious joy, gloating Scheinselbstaendigkeit nominally independent contract work Schicksalsgemeinschaft the common fate of [the EU member countries], they shared a common fate Schiessbefehl shoot-to-kill command/order Schlussplaidoyers (make the) final/closing arguments Schlussstand (Boerse) at closing Schnellboot motor torpedo-boat (MTB) schoenrechnen (Finanzhaushalt) creative accounting Schreckschusspistole starter pistol Schulamt, Ober- State Board of Education, (higher) school authority/board, Schwarzarbeit moonlighting Schweigeminute moment of silence Schwein(Mast-) hog (AE), pig, swine (BE) schwer (Verbrechen) serious ??? SED, Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands Socialist Unity Party of Germany, formerly ruling party of East Germany Seezunge (Fischart) sole Selbstaendiger self-employed Senat senate Senator Minister Siegermaechte Allies SMS (Short Messaging Service) SMS, text messaging, or texting (short texts one can send by mobile phone) Solarsiedlung solar-powered housing project Solidarzuschlag solidarity surcharge, extra 7.5% on income tax Sondermuell (-deponie) hazardous/special waste (depot) Sorgfaltspflichtverletzung negligence Sozialabbau welfare cuts Sozialabbau social slimming Sozialamt (social) welfare office Sozialausschuss (CDU, ...) committee for social matters Sozialdemokratie S. (workers' movement for social and democratic rights) Sozialgericht, Bundes-/Landes- Federal/Regional Social Court Sozialgesetzbuch social code Sozialhilfe social welfare assistance Sozialministerium, Bundes- federal welfare ministry Sozialwohnung housing at controlled prices Sparkasse savings bank Sparpaket austerity/savings package SPD, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Social-Democratic Party of Germany, Social-Democrats Spitzenkandidat leading candidate, top candidate Sprecher/in, Partei (party) spokes(wo)man, -person Sprengstoffanschlag bombing Springreiten show jumping Staatenbund confederation Staatsakt state act/ceremony Staatsaktion political event Staatsangehoeriger citizen Staatsanleihe public (govt) loan, public (govt) bond Staatsanwalt, -schaft public prosecutor, p p's office Staatsarchiv state archives Staatsbegraebnis state funeral Staatsbuergerschaft (doppelte) citizenship (dual) Staatsdienst public service Staatsgebiet territory of state Staatsgewalt executive power Staatshoheit sovereignty Staatskosten (auf S.) public expense (at p. e.) Staatsminister (Bay.) Minister of State Staatsminister (Bund) government secretary Staatsquote Die Staatsquote misst das Verhältnis von Staatsausgaben zum Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP); government expenditure as a percentage of GIP Staatssekretaer Secretary of State, Permanent Under-Secretary? Staatssekretär secretary of state (BE), undersecretary (AE) Staatssicherheitsdienst, Stasi GDR State Security, Stasi Staatsstreich coup d'etat Stabilitaetspakt stabilizing measures, Stability Pact (EU) Stadtdirektor (NRW, Nds.) mayor, head of municipal administration Stadtverordnetenversammlung city assembly, city parliament Stammzellen, embryonale embryonic stem cells Standort Deutschland S.D. (Germany as an industrial location, Germany as base for economic activity) Standortdebatte debate about Germany's attractiveness as base for economic activity Stasi Stasi (East Germany's infamous secret police) Statistisches Bundesamt Federal Department of Statistics Steinkohle coal (ohne Zusatz) steinreich filthy rich Sterbehilfe assisted dying Steuerfahndung Tax Investigation Office Steuerfreibetrag personal allowance, tax threshold Steuergelder tax revenue Steuergewerkschaft ??? Steuerhinterziehung tax fraud Steuersplitting Steuerspl. (married couples' beneficial tax rate) Steuerverkuerzung tax evasion Stilllegung shutdown Strafbefehl (in Hoehe von 100 Euro) order (to pay 100 euro penalty) Strafe sentence, punishment Strafrecht criminal code, penal code Streiflicht der SZ "Spotlight" from SZ Studentenwerk (Federal) Office for student affairs Stuetzungskaeufe (bei Devisen) support purchases (of currency by central bank) Sturm (schwer) storm (heavy) Sturmtief cyclone, depression Suchbefehl search warrant TTT [zum Anfang] Taeter perpetrator Taeter-Opfer-Ausgleich victim-offender mediation Tag der deutschen Einheit German Unity Day, Day of German Unity Tarifautonomie private sector collective bargaining Tarifbezirk bargaining district Tarifkommission, s.a. 'Grosse Tarifkommission' joint working party on pay Tarifkonflikt labour dispute Tarifpolitik wage policy Tarifverhandlungen, -runde collective bargaining Tarifvertrag collective wage agreement Tarnkappenbomber stealth bomber Tateinheit (in T. mit) in conjunction with Technisches Hilfswerk, THW Technical Assistance Organization Teilwertabschreibung write-off to the lower going-concern value, a write-off of expenses for tax purposes Teilzeitrente part-time retirement/pension Terror-Analyse-Zentrum Information and Analysis Centre "International Terrorism" (s. Nachrichten vom 14.12.2004) Teuerungsrate inflation rate Therapieplatz therapy position Thueringen Thuringia Tieffluege low-altitude aircraft flights Tiermehl meat and bone meal, ground-up animal by-products Tierversuchsgegner animal (rights) activist Todesfolge (mit T.) causing death, leading to death Totschlag manslaughter Transferleistungen balance payments/transfers among the federal states Treuhandanstalt THA (privatization and restructuring agency) Treuhandkonto accounts ... that cannot be tapped by ... Treuhandkonto trust fund, trustee account, escrow account Triebkopf (ICE) power car Trinkwass-Entnahmestelle outlet for drinking water Tschechische Republik Czech Republic Tschernobyl Chernobyl UUU [zum Anfang] ueberhangmandat overhang mandate (official term in NZ!) Umlaufrendite average daily return Umsatzsteuer VAT (value added tax) Umweltbundesamt Federal Department for the Environment Umweltminister Minister of the Environment, Environment Minister UN Fluechtlingskommissariat Office of the UN High Commissioner f. Refugees Union (CDU/CSU) Union, CDU/CSU Unrechtstaten (DDR-) GDR misdeeds Untergangsstimmung doom and gloom Unterschlagung embezzlement, fraudulent conversion Untersuchungsausschuss committee of inquiry, ad-hoc committee Untersuchungshaft being held during investigation, invest. custody Unterwasserkamera submersible camera Untreue embezzlement, fraudulent conversion Urabstimmung,-wahl strike ballot, vote of the members (allg.) Urlaubsgeld leave benefit Urteil anfechten to challenge a court ruling Urteilsbegruendung sentencing arguments Urteilsbekanntgabe (the Federal Court will hand down a ruling today) V-Leute s. Verbindungsmann V-Mann s. Verbindungsmann VVV [zum Anfang] Verband (Verb.) association Verbindungsmann (Geheimdienst, Verfassungsschutz:) informer, informant Verbrauchernachfrage private consumption Verbrechen, organisiertes organized crime Verdienstkreuz ... siehe: Bundesverdienstkreuz Verfassung constitution Verfassungsbeschwerde constitutional appeal/complaint verfassungsgemaess constitutional Verfassungsgericht, (Bundes-) Federal Constitutional Court verfassungskonform constitutional Verfassungsschutz German Domestic Intelligence Agency verfassungswidrig unconstitutional Verfolgung (Juden-) persecution (of the Jews) Verfuegung, einstweilige temporary injunction Vergewaltigung in der Ehe marital rape Vergleich (Bankrott) composition, receivership, ajudication Vergleich beantragen to go int receivership Vergleich, aussergerichtl. (out of court) settlement/agreement, arbitration Verhandlung (allg.) proceedings Verhandlung (Strafverfahren) trial Verkehrsminister, -senator Minister of Transportation Verlaengerung (nach V.) (Fussball) (in) overtime Vermittlungsausschuss Mediation Committee of B.tag and Bundesrat Vermoegensbildung subsidy to enable people with income below a certain limit to form assets, nest egg building subsidy Vermoegensbildungsgesetz law on a government subsidy for lower income people to help them build up financial assets) Vermoegenszuwachs capital gains Verordnung by-law, decree Versicherungsfremdleistungen extraneous (social insurance) benefits versuchter (Mord etc.) attempted Verteidigungsminister, -ium Ministry of Defense, Defense Minister Vertrauensabstimmung vote of confidence Veruntreuung embezzlement, fraudulent conversion verurteilen (fig.) condemn verurteilen (juristisch) convict, find guilty, condemn, sentence to Verwaltungsgericht, Ober-, Bundes- Administrative Court, Higher, Federal Verwaltungsgerichtshof Higher Administrative Court Verwaltungsratsvorsitzender (AG) chairman of the administrative board Vogelgrippe bird flu, avian flu, fowl pest Volksbegehren popular initiative Volksentscheid referendum vor Gericht stehen to stand trial voreingenommen biased vorgeladen werden to be subpoenaed vorhalten, jmd. etw. v. reproach someone for something Vorladung (writ of) summons, pl.: summonses Vorladung subpoena Vormundschaftsgericht guardianship court, family court, Court of Family Relations (US), Court of Protection (UK) vorpreschen rush ahead, jump (the) start Vorruhestand early retirement Vorsatz wilfully, with malice aforethought Vorschaltgesetz interim law Vorsitzender (Partei) president Vorsitzender (Verb.) Chairman of the Board of Directors Vorsitzender der Geschaeftsfuehrung (GmbH) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) / President Vorstand (Verb.) Board of Directors / Executive Board Vorstandsmitglied (AG) Member of the Executive Board Vorstandssprecher (AG) Chairman of the Executive Board Vorstandsvorsitzender (AG) President and Chief Executive Officer Vorverhandlung preliminary hearing WWW [zum Anfang] Waehrungsunion, Europaeische European Monetary Union (EMU) Waffenbeschaffung arms provision Wahlalternative Arbeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit Voting Alternative Labour and Social Justice Wahlbeteiligung voter turn-out Wahlkampf election campaign Wahlkreis constituency Wahlleiter returning officer, head of the election office Wahlprogramm party platform, election campaign Waldsterben forest decline Warnstreik limited/symbolic/token/warning strike Wasserpfennig tax on water use Wasserwacht 'Bay Watch' would be the choice of Pamela Anderson or David Hasselhoff fans - better use beach patrols or Water Search and Rescue people. It's not the Water Police, though they usually give a hand. Wasserwirtschaft water (supply and) management, water resource management Wechselkursmechanismus, Europaeischer European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) Wehrbeauftragter, Bundes- Commissioner/ Parliamentary Ombudsman for the Armed Forces Weiche points (pl.) Wende upturn, turn-around; re-unification Werbungskosten (als Steuerabzug) employment expenses (tax deductions for e.e.) Wertpapierpensionsgeschaeft securities bought from pension funds, security investments of pension funds Footnote Wessie Wessie Wetteramt meteorological institute Wiederaufbereitungsanlage reconditioning facility Wirtschaftminister Minister of Economics Wirtschaftswachstum economic growth Wohlstandsmuell affluence waste; (Personen:) welfare trash Wohncontainer emergency/container housing, housing container Wohnungsbauminister Housing Minister XXX [zum Anfang] YYY [zum Anfang] ZZZ [zum Anfang] Zahlungsbilanz balance-of-payment Zentralbankgeldmenge central bank money stock (similar to M3) Zentralbankrat Central Bank Council Zentrale fuer die Bekaempfung des Unlauteren Wettbewerbs Institute Against Unfair Competition Zentralkomittee der Katholiken German Catholic Committee Zentralrat der Juden German Jewish Committee Zentralrat der Muslime German Muslim Committee Zentralverband des deutschen Handwerks Central Association of German Trade Zeugnisverweigerungsrecht provisions for those bound by oaths of confidentiality; immunity from witness; [constitutional] right to refuse testimony Zinsabschlagsteuer provisional tax (payment) (on income from interest); This will be an estimate, and you can claim against it if you paid too much.; => Quellensteuer; Footnote Zivildienst (mandatory/compulsory) social service (instead of military service) (for conscientious objectors) zu Lasten von at the expense of Zumutbarkeit, Zumutbarkeitsregel reasonableness, suitability, acceptability, acceptable-employment regulations, appropriateness Zusatzaltersversorgung additional retirement pension/insurance ??? Zweitstimme party-vote, party-list vote Abgabenbelastung tax load Abgassteuer car exhaust tax Abmahnung warning Absatz sale, market Abschiebung expulsion/to expel, deportation Abstimmung, freie free vote Aktiengesellschaft joint-stock company Al Kaida, El Kaida Al-Qaeda alle Angaben ohne Gewaehr errors and omissions excepted Alleingang, nationaler unilateral/solitary move Alleviten Allawites Ampelkoalition red-yellow-green/traffic light coalition Amtsgericht District Court anfechten challenge, contest Angestellte von Banken/Bausparkassen employees of banks and building-and-loan associations Angestelltengewerkschaft, Deutsche (DAG) national union of employees ankurbeln spur Anstachelung zum (Rassen-)Hass hate mongering Anstiftung zu incitement to Anti-Baby-Pille birth-control pill Antipersonenminen anti-personnel mines, booby traps Antrittsbesuch first visit Anwaltschaft, (Bundes-) (Federal) Public Prosecutor's Office Arbeitgeber employer Arbeitgeberpraesident president of the federal employers' association Arbeitnehmer-Entsendegesetz law on the posting of workers [a minimum wage law for the German construction business protecting native workers from low wage competition by posted workers from other EU countries] Arbeitnehmerfluegel labour wing Arbeitnehmersparzulage employee savings bonus Arbeitsamt labour office Arbeitsbeschaffungsprogramm job-creation scheme Arbeitsdirektor (AG) executive for labour relations Arbeitsgericht, Landes-/Bundes- Regional/Federal Labour Court Arbeitslosengeld unemployment benefit Arbeitslosengeld II unemployment assistance Arbeitslosenhilfe unemployment assistance Arbeitsminister minister of employment Arbeitsniederlegung walkout Arbeitszeitkorridor flex time Arbeitszeitverkuerzung bei vollem Lohnausgleich reduction of working hours without wage reductions/whilst maintaining wage levels artgerechte Tierhaltung (s.a. freilaufend) ??? Asylbewerberschluessel standard refugee distribution policy Asylsuchender asylum-seeker Atommuell nuclear waste Atomwaffensperrvertrag Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty auf die Strasse gehen (protestieren) take to the streets Aufbau Ost Eastern German development programme Aufschwung economic growth, [stärker:] boom Aufsichtsamt fuer das Kreditwesen, Bundes- Federal Office for Bank Supervision Aufsichtsamt fuer das Versicherungswesen, Bundes- Federal Office for Insurance Companies Aufsichtsrat(svorsitzender) (chairman of the) board (of directors) Aufsichtsratsmitglied (AG) Member of the Supervisory Board Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender (AG) Chairman of the Supervisory Board Ausbildungsabgabe training levy Auslaenderbeauftragter commissioner for foreigners, Foreigners' Ombudsman Auslieferungshaft extradition custody Ausschuss der Regionen (EU) EU Committee of the Regions Aussenminister Foreign minister Aussiedler, Spaetausssiedler ethnic German living abroad Aussperrung lockout Auswaertiges Amt Foreign Ministry Autonome(r) (masked) left-radical activist BBB [zum Anfang] BAfoeG (Bundesausbildungsfoerderungsgesetz) federal education/training assistance [act] Bankrott, betruegerischer fraudulent bankruptcy Bargeld und angelegtes Kapital currency in circulation and deposits Bauernverband farmers' association Bauminister, -senator Minister of Building and Construction Bausparen targeted saving for self-owned homes Bauwirtschaft construction and building industry Bayern Bavaria BDI siehe: Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Beamtenbund, Deutscher national union of civil servants Beamter civil servant, government official Beauftragter commissioner, ombudsman/woman/person Bedarfsgemeinschaft resource sharing communities Befangenheitsantrag stellen to challenge judges for bias Befehl (gerichtl.) writ Begnadigung release on ministerial/presidential licence Behoerde government authority Beihilfe zu aiding and abetting (to aid and abet) Beirat (AG) Advisory Board Bekennerschreiben letter claiming responsibility Beklagter, Angeklagter defendant Belastungszeuge witness for the prosecution Beratungsschein (bei Schwangerschaftsabbruechen) proof of mandatory counseling Berufsgenossenschaft employers' liability insurance association Berufsgenossenschaft workers compensation board Besatzungsmacht occupying power Besatzungsstatut occupation statute Beschaffungskriminalitaet procurement criminality Besitzstaende achieved assets, values Besoldungsanpassungsgesetz law on civil service wage reconciliation; law on public employees pay scale reconciliation Betaeubungsmittelgesetz narcotics law Betriebspruefung company audit Betriebsrat workers'/employees' representation [Erklaerung] Betrug fraud Beugehaft coercive detention Bewaehrung suspended sentence; on probation bewaffnet ... (Verbrechen) armed ... Bezirksverbaende district society, organisation Bezirksverbaende district unions (Gewerkschaft) Billig -arbeiter, -lohn low-pay workforce, low-pay wage BIP (Bruttoinlandsprodukt) GNP (gross national product) bis (zeitl.) till/until (during the whole time), by (Frist) Bischofskonferenz conference of bishops blauer Brief (EU) early warning Blauhelm -soldat, -einsatz UN soldier, UN mission Bluter haemophiliac Blutkonserve blood conserve, supply in blood bank, donated blood Boden-Luft-Rakete surface-to-air missile Boerse ... stock market was bullish/bearish, unchanged Boerse schloss ... stock market closed up/down ... points; ... in heavy/light trading Boersenaufsichtsamt Securities & Exchange Commission ? Boersenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels German book dealers and publishers assoc. Branche, (z.B. Automobil-) (car) industry, trade Brandanschlag arson attack, fire bombing Braunkohle lignite Brennelemente nuclear fuel elements Brennstaebe nuclear fuel rods Brief(kurs) selling rate Briefbombe letter bomb Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP) gross national product (GNP) BSP (Bruttosozialprodukt) GDP (gross domestic product) Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen, B90/G Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen Buergerbegehren popular initiative Buergerentscheid referendum Buergermeister (allg., Leiter der Stadtverwaltung) mayor, head of municipal administration; (Nds. und NRW, der i.A. ehrenamtliche Vorsitzende des Gemeinderates) head of municipal parliament; (HH und B, der Chef der Regierung (Senat)) head of federal state government Buergerschaft state parliament Bummelstreik go-slow Bund der Steuerzahler Bund der Steuerzahlerzahler (taxpayers' association) Bund der Vertriebenen (BdV) Sudeten wartime expellees' association Bund fuer Umwelt- und Naturschutz (BUND) BUND (environmentalist pressure group), Germany's Nature Protection Alliance Bundes... siehe auch unter dem Hauptwort Bundesaerztekammer Federal General Medical Council Bundesamt fuer ... Federal Department of ... Bundesamt fuer Luftfahrt siehe: Luftfahrtbundesamt Bundesamt fuer Strahlenschutz, Federal Department for Radiation Safety Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz Federal Department for the Tutelage of the Constitution (domestic Intelligence agency) Bundesanstalt fuer Arbeit Federal Labour Office Bundesbahn AG, Deutsche German Railways Corporation Bundesbank Germany's central bank Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte federal commissioner for data privacy Bundesfinanzhof Federal Fiscal Court Bundesgerichtshof Federal High Court Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS) border guards Bundesland state Bundesliga, 1./2. Bundesliga, First/Second Division Bundesministerium des Innern, BMI Federal Ministry of the Interior Bundesministerium fuer Arbeit und Sozialordnung, BMA Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs Bundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung u. Technologie, BMBF Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology Bundesministerium fuer Ernährung, Landwirtschaft u. Forsten, BML Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry Bundesministerium fuer Familie, Senioren, Frauen u. Jugend, BMFSFJ Federal Ministry of Family, Seniors, Women and Youth Bundesministerium fuer Finanzen, BMF Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium fuer Gesundheit, BMG Federal Ministry of Health Bundesministerium fuer Justiz, BMJ Federal Ministry of Justice Bundesministerium fuer Raumordnung, Bauwesen u. Staedtebau, BMBau Federal Ministry of Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development Bundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz u. Reaktorsicherheit, BMU German Federal Environment Ministry Bundesministerium fuer Verkehr, BMV Federal Ministry of Transport Bundesministerium fuer Verteidigung, BMVg Federal Ministry of Defense Bundesministerium fuer Wirtschaft, BMWi Federal Ministry of Economics Bundesministerium fuer Wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit u. Entwicklung, BMZ Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Bundesnachrichtendienst German Foreign Intelligence Agency Bundespraesident German President Bundesrat Bundesrat, upper house of the parliament Bundestag Bundestag, lower house of the parliament Bundestagsausschuss Commission of the Bundestag / Bundestag Committee Bundestagsausschuss fuer Auswertiges und Verteidigung parliamentary commission for foreign affairs and defense Bundestagsinnenausschuss Committee for Interior Affairs Bundesverband der Deutschen Arbeitgeber Federal Alliance of German Employers Bundesverband der deutschen Industrie Federation of German Industry Bundesverband der Mittelstaendischen Wirtschaft Federation of the Mittelstand Economy Bundesverband der Tierversuchsgegner Federal Association of People Against Animal Experiments Bundesverdienstkreuz (State Honour) Bundesverdienstkreuz, Grosses Federal Germany's highest civilian Order of Merit, the "Grosses Bundesverdienstkreuz" Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbaende (BDA) Federal Alliance of German Employers' Associations Bundesversammlung Presidential Election Council, Federal Convention [die Mitglieder des Bundestags und in gleicher Anzahl gewaehlte Vertreter der Landtage (meistens Buerger oder Persönlichkeiten des öffentlichen Lebens)] Bundesversicherungsanstalt fuer Angestellte (BfA) BfA (Federal Pension Plan Agency for Employees) Bundeswehr Bundeswehr, armed forces Bundeswehrbeauftragter Commissioner/Parliamentary Ombudsman for the Armed Forces Bundeswehreinsatz engagement of the Bundeswehr BVG (Bundesverfassungsgericht) Federal Administrative Court CCC [zum Anfang] CASTOR cask for storage and transport of radioactive material CDU, Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands Christian-Democratic Union CSU, Christlich Soziale Union (nur in Bayern) Christian-Social Union DDD [zum Anfang] DAG siehe: Deutsche Angestelltengewerkschaft Darlehen mortgage, loan Datenschutzbeauftragter data privacy commissioner, commissioner for data privacy DAX DAX DDR GDR (German Democratic Republic) Der Spiegel the news magazine Der Spiegel Deutsche Angestelltengewerkschaft (DAG) national union of employees Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung German Association of Mathematicians Deutsche Postgewerkschaft (DPG) German Postal Union Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB) national trade union federation, German federation of unions Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag (DIHT) Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce [laut DIHT-Webseite] Deutscher Staedte- und Gemeindebund Council of German Districts Deutscher Staedtetag Council of German Cities Devisen foreign currency Diaeten parliamentary pay/remuneration/salary, emoluments Dienst nach Vorschrift work to rule Diplomatischer Corps diplomatic body (corps) Direktmandat direct vote Diskontsatz discount rate Dorsch (Ostsee u. Jugendform) = Kabeljau cod Drehgestell (beim Zug) bogey Dreikoenigstag Epiphany Drittes Reich Third Reich Druecker (Zeitschriftenwerber) pusher Durchsuchungsbefehl search warrant EEE [zum Anfang] Eckwert cornerstone, base/key rate Ehegattensplitting joint tax declaration (for spouses) Ehrenvorsitzender (Verb.) Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors Eigenheim owner-occupied house Eigenheimzulage subsidy to apply to the construction of a house Eigenkapital own/private capital, capital resources, capital, stock and reserve, equity Eilentscheidung (jur.) urgency decision ? Eilverfahren expedited proceedings/trial/case Eingreiftruppe, schnelle rapid response force Einheitsfonds Unity Fund einmotten to mothball ("Ontario to scrap mothballed reactors" The Globe and Mail) Einnahmeausfall loss of income, loss of revenue Einsatzbereitschaft (mil.) combat readiness Einzeletat budget position(s) Eishockey hockey Elterngeld parenting money EMNID polling research institute EMNID Endlagerung (nuclear) waste repository Energiewirtschaft energy sector Entfuehrung (Flugzeug) hijacking Entfuehrung (Person) kidnapping, hostage taking entgleisen derail Entlastung (eines Amtsinhabers) discharge, approval Entlastung (von Anschuldigungen) exoneration, to clear Entscheidung ruling, finding Entsendegesetz (Bauarbeiter) law on payment of foreign workers seconded to German construction sites Entsendegesetz (Beamte) law on secondment Entsendegesetz (Soldaten) law on deployment Entsendegesetz, Arbeitnehmer- law on the posting of workers [a minimum wage law for the German construction business protecting native workers from low wage competition by posted workers from other EU countries] Entsenderichtlinie ?target rule? Entsorgung waste disposal Erblastentilgungsfond Debt Redemption Fund Erlass (gerichtl.) writ Erlass einer einstweiliger Verfuegung to grant an injunction Ermittlungsverfahren preliminary investigations Ernennungsurkunde letter of appointment erpressen extort, blackmail, hold someone to ransom Erpresser extortionist/extortioner (nur BE), blackmailer Erpressung (a) extortion (Androhung von Gewalt) Erpressung (b) blackmail(ing) (Androhung von Skandal) Ersatzkrankenkasse substitute public health insurance/fund/scheme Erststimme candidate-vote, first-past-the-post vote Ertragsanteil [a calculated percentage of total retirement pay, at an average of around 32%, depending on several factors such as retirement age, total amount, any collateral income] a complex formula determines what portion, if any, of pension income may be taxed, and at what rate; in practice, the formula means that average pension recipients pay no tax on their pensions Erziehungsgeld child-care benefit Erziehungsurlaub child-care leave Europaeischer Einigungsprozess European unification process Europäische Einigung European unification europäischer Integrationsprozess process of European integration Europaminister der Laender state ministers for European concerns Europarat Council of Europe Existenzminimum official subsistence level Expertengutachten expert witness FFF [zum Anfang] fahrlaessig by negligence Familienlastenausgleich incentives for young families ??? Familienminister Minister for the Family FDP, Freie Demokratische Partei Liberal-Democratic Party Fehlbelegungsabgabe penalty for improper use of fixed-price housing Feinstaub fine particle matter festnehmen, vorlaeufig to take into custody, to hold Feuerschutzabgabe fire fighting levy Finanzamt revenue office Finanzausschuss (Einnahmen) ways and means committee (USA) Finanzbeamter fiscal officer Finanzgericht Fiscal Court Finanzminister, -ium Finance Minister, Ministry of Finance Finanzpolitik fiscal policy Flaechentarifvertrag in collective agreements: Global awards, as opposed to localised awards or enterprise awards. They would cover all of Germany, regardless of 'poor' or 'rich' regions/businesses. Fleischerhandwerk butchery Flensburger Punktedatei traffic penalty register Fluesterasfalt, Fluesterasphalt whisper asphalt, porous asphalt, 'soundblocking' tarseal Folgerezept refill Fraktion parliamentary group, faction Fraktionsvorsitzender parliamentary party leader Fraktionszwang party discipline Freiberufler self-employed freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordng. free democratic order/society freilaufend (Huehner) free range freisprechen (jmd.) acquit, find s.o. not guilty Freiwillige Feuerwehr volunteer fire department Fremdverschulden third-party responsibility Fruehrente early retirement Fuehrungsgremium governing body Fuenf Weise s. Sachverstaendigenrat Fundis (Fraktion der Gruenen) fundamentalists, hard-core, radical Fussball soccer GGG [zum Anfang] Ganztagsschule full day school Gastarbeiter Gastarbeiter (foreign worker, guest worker) Gauck-Behoerde Authority overseeing the files of Stasi, the former East German State Security Gefaengnisstrafe bekommen the accused received prison sentences of six to 13 years Gefluegelpest pseudo fowl pest, poultry plague, avian influenza, bird flu, (Exotic) Newcastle Disease gegen Unbekannt versus persons unknown Geiselnahme taking of hostages, to take s.o. hostage Geld(kurs) buying rate Geldmengenziel monetary target (ranges) Geldmengenziel (M1) target (range) for narrow money (M1) Geldmengenziel (M3) target (range) for broad money (M3) Gemeinde (local) community Gemeinde (Kirchen-) congregation Gemeinde (pol.) municipality gemeinsamer (Mord etc.) joint (murder etc.) Generalbevollmaechtigter (AG) General Manager Generalmajor general major Generalsekretaer secretary-general Generalstaatsanwalt Attorney-General, Chief State Prosecutor geringfuegige Beschaeftigung less-than-part-time jobs Gesamtmetall employers association for the steel and engineering industry Gesamtverband des Deutschen Steinkohlebergbau Federal Association of the German Coal Mining Industries Geschaeftsfuehrender Gesellschafter (KG) Managing Partner Geschaeftsfuehrender Partner (OHG) Managing Partner geschaeftsfuehrender Praesident caretaker/acting president Geschaeftsfuehrer (Firma) General Manager[GmbH], Managing Director[Verb., GmbH] Geschaeftsfuehrer (Partei) secretary-general Gesellschafter stockholder [GmbH], partner [OHG] Gesellschafterversammlung(GmbH) stockholders' meeting -gesetz (z.B. Einkommensteuer-) law Gesetzgeber the legislative, the lawmaker(s) Gespraechsleitfaden interview guide gestehen the accused pleaded guilty to 2nd degree murder Gesundheitsminister Minister of Health Gewerbeertragssteuer trade tax on profit Gewerbekapitalsteuer local trade tax on capital Gewerbesteuer trade tax Gewerkschaft Bergbau union for the mining industry Gewerkschaft der Eisenbahnbeschaeftigten union of railway employees Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW) union for education and science Gewerkschaft Handel-Banken-Versicherung (HBV) union for the trade, bank, and insurance industry Gewerkschaft Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststaetten (NGG) Union for the food and restaurant sector Gewerkschaft oeffentliche Dienste-Transport-Verkehr (oeTV) Union for the public service and transportation sector Gewerkschaftsfunktionaer union official Gewerkschaftstag labour union convention Gewerkschaftsvertreter union representative GmbH privately held corporation Gorbatschow Mikhail Gorbachev Grosse Koalition Grand Coalition Grosse Strafkammer first chamber of the regional court Grosse Tarifkommission high-ranking union-committee deciding on the collective bargaining strategy Grosser Lauschangriff great surveillance attack, grand bugging attack Grossversuch large-scale testing Gruen-Alternative Liste (GAL) Green-Alternative Party Grundgesetz Grundgesetz (constitution), Basic Law GUS (Gemeinschaft Unabhaengiger Staaten) CIS (Community of Independent States) Gymnasium upper secondary school, grammar school HHH [zum Anfang] Haestraeger people in traditional carnival costumes Haftbefehl arrest warrant Haftrichter judge at committal hearing (?) Halbschwergewicht light-heavyweight Handelsbilanz trade balance Handlungsbevollmaechtigter (AG) assistant manager Handwerksverband handicraft association, contractors association Hauptangeklagter principal defendant Hauptausschuss (Verb.) executive committee Hauptgeschaeftsfuehrer (Verb.) general executive manager Hauptschule standard secondary school Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie German building contractors' association Hauptversammlung (AG) stockholders' meeting Haushalt budget Haushaltsausschuss (Ausgaben) appropriations committee (USA) Haushaltsloch budget deficit haushaltspolitischer Sprecher der XYZ-Fraktion budgetary spokesperson for the XYZ faction Hausverbot restraining order HBV siehe: Gewerkschaft Handel-Banken-Versicherung Hebesatz ([Grund]Steuer-) local [property] tax multiplier Heer ground troops Hessen Hesse Hetzschrift, -kampagne smear publication, smear campaign Hinspiel (i.d. Bundesliga spielt jede Mannschaft 2x gegen eine andere Mannschaft) first leg (game) Hochseefischerei deep-sea fishery Hockey field hockey Huehnerpest siehe Geflügelpest humanitaere Gruende, aus h. G. (on) compassionate grounds I I I [zum Anfang] Ich-AG Me Incorporated Ifo Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung Ifo Institute for Economic Research IG Bau-Steine-Erden construction industry union IG Metall union for metal, engineering and electronics in Brand setzen set on fire Industrie- und Handelskammer Chamber of Commerce Innenminister Minister of the Interior innerdeutsche Grenze German-German border Institut fuer Ernaehrungsforschung Institute for Nutritional Sciences Intendant director ?, president-elect Internationale Schutztruppe (ISAF) International Security Assistance Force Islamist Islamic extremist, Islamist JJJJ [zum Anfang] Jahressteuergesetz annual tax law Judenverfolgung persecution of the Jews (not: Jewish pers.) Jugendschoeffengericht jury juvenile court Jugendstrafe juvenile arrest, juvenile detention juristisch zur Verantwortung ziehen sue; hold accountable; take s.o. to court for s.th. Justizminister Minister of Justice KKKK [zum Anfang] Kabeljau = Dorsch (Ostsee u. Jugendform) cod Kammergericht higher court Kammergericht (Berlin) Superior Court of Justice of Berlin Kampfeinsatz shoot-to-kill mission Kanzler, Bundes- Chancellor Kanzleramt, Bundes- Chancellor's Office Kanzleramtsminister Secretary of the Chancellor's Office Kanzlermehrheit the absolute majority of all members of the Bundestag Kanzlerrunde talks at the Chancellor's office Kapitalsteuer capital gains tax Kapitalverkehrsbilanz balance on capital account Kartellamt Anti-Trust Office Kassenaerztliche Bundesvereinigung National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians(Quelle: http://www.kbv.de/international/international100.htm) Kassenarzt physician registered with health insurance funds Katholikentag Catholic church congress, Catholic church convention Kaution bail Kiew Kiev Kinderfreibetrag child allowance Kindergeld child benefit Kirchenasyl asylum granted by church, church refuge/sanctuary Kirchentag church congress, church convention Kirchentagspraesident president of the (xxx) church convention Klaeger (Zivilrecht) plaintiff, claimant klagen sue, file charges, lay charges Klausurtagung seclusion meeting, meeting behind closed doors Koalitionsregierung coalition government Koeln Cologne Koerperverletzung (schwere) (grievous) bodily harm, physical injury Kohlepfennig energy tax (support of coal industry) Kombilohn combination wage (i.e. government-subsidized paycheck; workscheme where wages for unskilled labour are topped up by government) Kommanditgesellschaft (KG) Limited Partnership Kommanditist (KG) Limited Partner Kommission (= Ausschuss) committee, but: Commission of the EU Kommission (= Delegation) commission Kommune local council Komplementaer (KG) General Partner Konjunktur business cycle Kontrollkommission control commission Konzertierte Aktion cooperation agreement between state, industry and unions) Kooperationsrat Council on Cooperation Kosovo-Albaner Kosovar Albanian Krankenhausnotopfer an additional emolument exacted from public health insurance members for hospital refurbishment) Krankenkasse A health insurance institution which collects contributions from insured individuals and employers and grants payments in the event of illness. At present there are almost 1,300 in existence, divided into statutory public, guild, seafarers' and company health insurance funds and mineworkers' and white-collar workers' health insurance funds (an approved alternative fund, i.e. "Ersatzkasse", see social security obligation ) and private health insurance funds. (http://www.eurofound.ie/emire/germany.html) Krankenkassenbeitrag health insurance contribution Krawall riot Kreditabwicklungsfond Credit Fund Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau Reconstruction Loan Corporation Kreis (Land-) district, District of XY-town Kriminalamt, Bundes-/Landes- federal/state criminal police (agency) Kronzeuge crown witness KSZE / OSZE CSCE / OSCE kuendigen (durch Arbeitgeber), Kuendigung lay off (Kündigung: lay-off), dismiss, sack, fire, give the "pink slip" Kultusministerium Ministry of Culture/Cultural Issues Kur sanatorium/rehabilitation treatments Kurzprogramm (Eiskunstlauf) short program(me) LLLL [zum Anfang] Ladenschlussgesetz business hour law Ladenschlusszeiten business/shop/shopping/store/store closing/trading hours Laenderausgleichsfond the equalization-of-burdens fund Laenderfinanzausgleich fiscal equalisation, (federal) transfer payments, fiscal federalism Laenderrat (B90/Gruene) high-ranking party committee Landesgruppe (CSU) CSU members of parliament Landesvorsitzender chair of the [state] [party] Landeswahlleiter head of regional election office Landgericht (Ober-) (Higher) Regional Court Landkreis district, District of XY-town Landrat District President Landratsamt district administration Landsmannschaft, Schlesische Silesian Traditional Association Landtag state assembly/parliament Lauschangriff, Grosser grand bugging attack, great surveillance attack Lebenshaltungskosten consumer price index Lebenskultur Lebenskultur (art of living) Leihstimmenkampagne giving the party-vote to a small party and the candidate-vote to the larger coalition partner Leistungsbilanz balance on current account Leitzinsen key short-term interest rate Lesung the bill has passed the 3rd reading Linksruck push to the left Lohnfortzahlung paid sick leave, sick pay Lohnkostenniveau level of labour cost Lohnnebenkosten indirect wage costs, fringe benefits, (benefit contributions paid by employers), wage fringes Lombardsatz lombard rate Luftfahrtbundesamt / Bundesamt fuer Luftfahrt Federal Department of Aviation Luftwaffe air force MMM [zum Anfang] Maennerriege 'Old Boys'-network. Riege is a group of men doing athletics, together. Magnetschwebebahn high-speed magnetic levitation train Mallorca Majorca (Insel), Palma de Mallorca (Hauptstadt) Marine navy Markterschliessung entering (a) new market(s) Masseneinkommen mass income ? Massenkarambolage, Massenunfall pile-up accident Mastschwein hog (AE), pig, swine (BE) Maul- und Klauenseuche foot-and-mouth disease, hoof and mouth disease Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Menschenraub abduction Menschenrechtler civil rights activist Menschenrechtskonvention Human Rights Convention menschliches Versagen human error Milliarde billion, bn Mindestlohn minimal living income / wage Mindestreserve minimum reserve ratio Minensuchgeschwader mine-detection squadron Minister Minister Ministerialdirektor Assistant secretary Ministerialdirigent Junior assistant secretary Ministerialerlass Ministerial order Ministerialrat Principal Ministerium Ministry Ministerpraesident State Premier Ministerrat Cabinet (Council) Mitangeklagter co-defendant Mitbestimmung (Arbeiter-, betriebliche) worker participation in management Mittaeter accomplice Mittellandkanal (German) Midlands Channel Mittelstand middle class (foot note 3) Mittelstandsvereinigung (Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsvereinigung der CDU/CSU) Small and Medium Entrepreneurs Association; eher wörtlich: Association representing the middle class Mobilitaetszulage travel allowance ? Mord murder Mordverdacht suspected for murder Mutterschaftsurlaub maternity leave Mutterschutz motherhood leave NNN [zum Anfang] Nachforderung afterclaim, extra claim Nachrichten der letzten site News from the Far Site Nachtragshaushalt budget update Nachwuchs prospective/future scratch players Nahost Middle-East (and not "Near-East") Nebenklaeger third-party action Neigetechnikzug (Pendolino) train with tilting technology Neonazi neonazi Neuverschuldung budget deficit, new debts Niedersachsen Lower Saxony Niederungen (Wetterbericht) low-lying areas Nobelpreistraeger Nobel laureate Noetigung duress, coercion, intimidation Nordrhein-Westfalen North Rhine-Westphalia Normenkontrollklage to challenge a law in the Federal Constitutional Court, petition to the FCC to override a law because it is seen to violate personal rights NPD, National-Demokratische Partei Deutschlands [rechtsextreme Partei] OOO [zum Anfang] Oberbuergermeister Mayor (kreisfreie Staedte in NRW u. Nds.) Oberflaechenhaftung (Strasse) surface grip Oberlandesgericht Higher Regional Court Obrigkeitshoerigkeit authoritarian serfdom oeffentlicher Dienst Germany's public services (public sector) oeffnungsklausel escape clause OHG Partnership Orden wider den tierischen Ernst Medal against Deadly Seriousness Organisation der Kriminalbeamten organization of detective Orkan severe/violent/hurricane-force storm,hurricane Ossie Ossie Ostermarsch Easter march Ostseerat Baltic Sea Council Ozonloch hole in the ozone layer, ozone hole Ozonverordnung ozone threshold(?) PPP [zum Anfang] Paepstlicher Nuntius papal delegate Paketbombe package bomb Parteifuehrung party leadership Parteiordnungverfahren internal proceedings (by the SPD, z.B.) Parteipraesidium party board/council Parteiprogramm party platform Parteitag, Bundes-/Landes- federal/state party conference Patientenbeteiligung patient participation in the cost of medicine PDS, Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus Party of Democratic Socialism (former communists) PEN International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists Penner bum, slacker, "you snooze - you loose", drifter; vagrant; hobo; tramp; derelict; straggler; (blighter), ausführlich Pension pension (of tenured government employees [Beamte], paid by the government in return for lower pay) Persoenlich haftender Gesellschafter (KG) General Partner Petitionsausschuss parliamentary petitions committee Pflegeversicherung care insurance Pille danach morning-after contraception PISA Programme for International Student Assessment Plaedoyer final arguments, final address ploetzlicher Kindstod cot death, SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) Pokal der Pokalsieger (soccer) Cup Winners' Cup Politbuero politburo Politikverdrossenheit sulkiness about politics Praeimplantationsdiagnostik (PID) preimplantation genetic testing Praesident (Verb.) President Praesidium (eines Verbandes) board of directors, executive board, steering committee Praxisgebuehr medical office fee, user fee preisbereinigt in real terms Prionenerkrankungen prion (proteinaceous infectious particles) diseases Privatkundengeschaeft (Bank) private banking Prokurist (AG) ; authorized officer QQQ [zum Anfang] Quartalsgewinn first/second/third/fourth quarter earnings Quellensteuer allg.: pay-as-you-go-tax; tax that is deducted at the source, i.e. tax on capital income is deducted by the bank räuberisch rapacious räuberische Erpressung rapacious extortion RRR [zum Anfang] Radlager (sg.) wheel bearings (pl.) Radreifen (beim ICE) (wheel/steel) rims, double-reinforced metal tires, wheel hoops Rand (N.N. sagte am Rande von Veranstaltung X in B., ...) In passing while attending the X event, N.N. said ...While in B. for the X. event, N. said in passing ... Raps Canola (tradename; rape variety with little erucic acid and glucosinolates), rape, rapeseed, oil-seed rape Raub robbery Raumfahrtunternehmen space mission / space enterprise Realos (Fraktion der Gruenen) Realists, Moderates Realschule intermediate secondary school Rechnungshof, Bundes-/Landes- Fed./State Court of Auditors -recht (z.B. Beamtendienst-) code Rechtsanspruch right rechtsextrem extrem rightist Rechtsruck push to the right Rede halten deliver a speech Regierung government Regierungskoalition government, governing coalition Regierungskreise government ranks Regionalausschuss der EU EU Committee of the Regions Reichsbund [a social organization] Reichskristallnacht, Reichspogromnacht Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass in 1938 when Nazi thugs launched the pogrom against the Jews [Washington Post] Rente pension (of workers and employees, paid by their contributions) Rentenkassen pension plan agencies ? Rentenueberleitungsgesetz pension transferal law Rezession recession, slowdown Rheinland-Pfalz Rhineland-Palatinate Rinderpest rinderpest, cattle-plague, serapis Rinderwahnsinn (BSE) mad cow disease (BSE, bovine spongiform encephalitis) Ring deutscher Makler Association of German Real Estate Agents Ringfahndung cordon of police, cordon search Risiko- und Beteiligungskapital capital for equity and debt financing Risikostrukturausgleich balance payment, risk equity payment Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) Red Army Faction Rote Karte (Fussball) red card, ejection from a game Rueckmeldegebuehr registration fee (at university for each term) Rueckruf recall: Car manufacturer BMW asks 75'000 owners to return their cars to BMW dealers for checking the seat heating Rueckspiel (i.d. Bundesliga spielt jede Mannschaft 2x gegen eine andere Mannschaft) second leg (game) Rundfunkstaatsvertrag inter-state broadcasting treaty; regulations on public broadcasting SSS [zum Anfang] Sachsen Saxony Sachsen-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt Sachverstaendigenrat (zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichenEntwicklung) German Council of Economic Experts (Quelle: www.sachverstaendigenrat-wirtschaft.de) Sanierungskonzept rehabilitation plan Sarajewo Sarajevo Satzung (einer Partei), Bundes- federal statutes/charter Schaden: x DM Schaden x DM worth of damage Schadenfreude Schadenfreude, malicious joy, gloating Scheinselbstaendigkeit nominally independent contract work Schicksalsgemeinschaft the common fate of [the EU member countries], they shared a common fate Schiessbefehl shoot-to-kill command/order Schlussplaidoyers (make the) final/closing arguments Schlussstand (Boerse) at closing Schnellboot motor torpedo-boat (MTB) schoenrechnen (Finanzhaushalt) creative accounting Schreckschusspistole starter pistol Schulamt, Ober- State Board of Education, (higher) school authority/board, Schwarzarbeit moonlighting Schweigeminute moment of silence Schwein(Mast-) hog (AE), pig, swine (BE) schwer (Verbrechen) serious ??? SED, Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands Socialist Unity Party of Germany, formerly ruling party of East Germany Seezunge (Fischart) sole Selbstaendiger self-employed Senat senate Senator Minister Siegermaechte Allies SMS (Short Messaging Service) SMS, text messaging, or texting (short texts one can send by mobile phone) Solarsiedlung solar-powered housing project Solidarzuschlag solidarity surcharge, extra 7.5% on income tax Sondermuell (-deponie) hazardous/special waste (depot) Sorgfaltspflichtverletzung negligence Sozialabbau welfare cuts Sozialabbau social slimming Sozialamt (social) welfare office Sozialausschuss (CDU, ...) committee for social matters Sozialdemokratie S. (workers' movement for social and democratic rights) Sozialgericht, Bundes-/Landes- Federal/Regional Social Court Sozialgesetzbuch social code Sozialhilfe social welfare assistance Sozialministerium, Bundes- federal welfare ministry Sozialwohnung housing at controlled prices Sparkasse savings bank Sparpaket austerity/savings package SPD, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Social-Democratic Party of Germany, Social-Democrats Spitzenkandidat leading candidate, top candidate Sprecher/in, Partei (party) spokes(wo)man, -person Sprengstoffanschlag bombing Springreiten show jumping Staatenbund confederation Staatsakt state act/ceremony Staatsaktion political event Staatsangehoeriger citizen Staatsanleihe public (govt) loan, public (govt) bond Staatsanwalt, -schaft public prosecutor, p p's office Staatsarchiv state archives Staatsbegraebnis state funeral Staatsbuergerschaft (doppelte) citizenship (dual) Staatsdienst public service Staatsgebiet territory of state Staatsgewalt executive power Staatshoheit sovereignty Staatskosten (auf S.) public expense (at p. e.) Staatsminister (Bay.) Minister of State Staatsminister (Bund) government secretary Staatsquote Die Staatsquote misst das Verhältnis von Staatsausgaben zum Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP); government expenditure as a percentage of GIP Staatssekretaer Secretary of State, Permanent Under-Secretary? Staatssicherheitsdienst, Stasi GDR State Security, Stasi Staatsstreich coup d'etat Stabilitaetspakt stabilizing measures, Stability Pact (EU) Stadtdirektor (NRW, Nds.) mayor, head of municipal administration Stadtverordnetenversammlung city assembly, city parliament Stammzellen, embryonale embryonic stem cells Standort Deutschland S.D. (Germany as an industrial location, Germany as base for economic activity) Standortdebatte debate about Germany's attractiveness as base for economic activity Stasi Stasi (East Germany's infamous secret police) Statistisches Bundesamt Federal Department of Statistics Steinkohle coal (ohne Zusatz) steinreich filthy rich Sterbehilfe assisted dying Steuerfahndung Tax Investigation Office Steuerfreibetrag personal allowance, tax threshold Steuergelder tax revenue Steuergewerkschaft ??? Steuerhinterziehung tax fraud Steuersplitting Steuerspl. (married couples' beneficial tax rate) Steuerverkuerzung tax evasion Stilllegung shutdown Strafbefehl (in Hoehe von 100 Euro) order (to pay 100 euro penalty) Strafe sentence, punishment Strafrecht criminal code, penal code Streiflicht der SZ "Spotlight" from SZ Studentenwerk (Federal) Office for student affairs Stuetzungskaeufe (bei Devisen) support purchases (of currency by central bank) Sturm (schwer) storm (heavy) Sturmtief cyclone, depression Suchbefehl search warrant TTT [zum Anfang] Taeter perpetrator Taeter-Opfer-Ausgleich victim-offender mediation Tag der deutschen Einheit German Unity Day, Day of German Unity Tarifautonomie private sector collective bargaining Tarifbezirk bargaining district Tarifkommission, s.a. 'Grosse Tarifkommission' joint working party on pay Tarifpolitik wage policy Tarifverhandlungen, -runde collective bargaining Tarifvertrag collective wage agreement Tarnkappenbomber stealth bomber Tateinheit (in T. mit) in conjunction with Technisches Hilfswerk, THW Technical Assistance Organization Teilwertabschreibung write-off to the lower going-concern value, a write-off of expenses for tax purposes Teilzeitrente part-time retirement/pension Terror-Analyse-Zentrum Information and Analysis Centre "International Terrorism" (s. Nachrichten vom 14.12.2004) Teuerungsrate inflation rate Therapieplatz therapy position Thueringen Thuringia Tieffluege low-altitude aircraft flights Tiermehl meat and bone meal, ground-up animal by-products Tierversuchsgegner animal (rights) activist Todesfolge (mit T.) causing death, leading to death Totschlag manslaughter Transferleistungen balance payments/transfers among the federal states Treuhandanstalt THA (privatization and restructuring agency) Treuhandkonto accounts ... that cannot be tapped by ... Treuhandkonto trust fund, trustee account, escrow account Triebkopf (ICE) power car Trinkwass-Entnahmestelle outlet for drinking water Tschechische Republik Czech Republic Tschernobyl Chernobyl UUU [zum Anfang] ueberhangmandat overhang mandate (official term in NZ!) Umlaufrendite average daily return Umsatzsteuer VAT (value added tax) Umweltbundesamt Federal Department for the Environment Umweltminister Minister of the Environment, Environment Minister UN Fluechtlingskommissariat Office of the UN High Commissioner f. Refugees Union (CDU/CSU) Union, CDU/CSU Unrechtstaten (DDR-) GDR misdeeds Untergangsstimmung doom and gloom Unterschlagung embezzlement, fraudulent conversion Untersuchungsausschuss committee of inquiry, ad-hoc committee Untersuchungshaft being held during investigation, invest. custody Unterwasserkamera submersible camera Untreue embezzlement, fraudulent conversion Urabstimmung,-wahl strike ballot, vote of the members (allg.) Urlaubsgeld leave benefit Urteil anfechten to challenge a court ruling Urteilsbegruendung sentencing arguments Urteilsbekanntgabe (the Federal Court will hand down a ruling today) V-Leute s. Verbindungsmann V-Mann s. Verbindungsmann VVV [zum Anfang] Verband (Verb.) association Verbindungsmann (Geheimdienst, Verfassungsschutz:) informer, informant Verbrauchernachfrage private consumption Verbrechen, organisiertes organized crime Verdienstkreuz ... siehe: Bundesverdienstkreuz Verfassung constitution Verfassungsbeschwerde constitutional appeal/complaint verfassungsgemaess constitutional Verfassungsgericht, (Bundes-) Federal Constitutional Court verfassungskonform constitutional Verfassungsschutz German Domestic Intelligence Agency verfassungswidrig unconstitutional Verfolgung (Juden-) persecution (of the Jews) Verfuegung, einstweilige temporary injunction Vergewaltigung in der Ehe marital rape Vergleich (Bankrott) composition, receivership, ajudication Vergleich beantragen to go int receivership Vergleich, aussergerichtl. (out of court) settlement/agreement, arbitration Verhandlung (allg.) proceedings Verhandlung (Strafverfahren) trial Verkehrsminister, -senator Minister of Transportation Verlaengerung (nach V.) (Fussball) (in) overtime Vermittlungsausschuss Mediation Committee of B.tag and Bundesrat Vermoegensbildung subsidy to enable people with income below a certain limit to form assets, nest egg building subsidy Vermoegensbildungsgesetz law on a government subsidy for lower income people to help them build up financial assets) Vermoegenszuwachs capital gains Verordnung by-law, decree Versicherungsfremdleistungen extraneous (social insurance) benefits versuchter (Mord etc.) attempted Verteidigungsminister, -ium Ministry of Defense, Defense Minister Vertrauensabstimmung vote of confidence Veruntreuung embezzlement, fraudulent conversion verurteilen (fig.) condemn verurteilen (juristisch) convict, find guilty, condemn, sentence to Verwaltungsgericht, Ober-, Bundes- Administrative Court, Higher, Federal Verwaltungsgerichtshof Higher Administrative Court Verwaltungsratsvorsitzender (AG) chairman of the administrative board Vogelgrippe bird flu, avian flu, fowl pest Volksbegehren popular initiative Volksentscheid referendum vor Gericht stehen to stand trial voreingenommen biased vorgeladen werden to be subpoenaed vorhalten, jmd. etw. v. reproach someone for something Vorladung (writ of) summons, pl.: summonses Vorladung subpoena Vormundschaftsgericht guardianship court, family court, Court of Family Relations (US), Court of Protection (UK) vorpreschen rush ahead, jump (the) start Vorruhestand early retirement Vorsatz wilfully, with malice aforethought Vorschaltgesetz interim law Vorsitzender (Partei) president Vorsitzender (Verb.) Chairman of the Board of Directors Vorsitzender der Geschaeftsfuehrung (GmbH) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) / President Vorstand (Verb.) Board of Directors / Executive Board Vorstandsmitglied (AG) Member of the Executive Board Vorstandssprecher (AG) Chairman of the Executive Board Vorstandsvorsitzender (AG) President and Chief Executive Officer Vorverhandlung preliminary hearing WWW [zum Anfang] Waehrungsunion, Europaeische European Monetary Union (EMU) Waffenbeschaffung arms provision Wahlalternative Arbeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit Voting Alternative Labour and Social Justice Wahlbeteiligung voter turn-out Wahlkampf election campaign Wahlkreis constituency Wahlleiter returning officer, head of the election office Wahlprogramm party platform, election campaign Waldsterben forest decline Warnstreik limited/symbolic/token/warning strike Wasserpfennig tax on water use Wasserwacht 'Bay Watch' would be the choice of Pamela Anderson or David Hasselhoff fans - better use beach patrols or Water Search and Rescue people. It's not the Water Police, though they usually give a hand. Wasserwirtschaft water (supply and) management, water resource management Wechselkursmechanismus, Europaeischer European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) Wehrbeauftragter, Bundes- Commissioner/ Parliamentary Ombudsman for the Armed Forces Weiche points (pl.) Wende upturn, turn-around; re-unification Werbungskosten (als Steuerabzug) employment expenses (tax deductions for e.e.) Wertpapierpensionsgeschaeft securities bought from pension funds, security investments of pension funds Footnote Wessie Wessie Wetteramt meteorological institute Wiederaufbereitungsanlage reconditioning facility Wirtschaftminister Minister of Economics Wirtschaftswachstum economic growth Wohlstandsmuell affluence waste; (Personen:) welfare trash Wohncontainer emergency/container housing, housing container Wohnungsbauminister Housing Minister XXX [zum Anfang] YYY [zum Anfang] ZZZ [zum Anfang] Zahlungsbilanz balance-of-payment Zentralbankgeldmenge central bank money stock (similar to M3) Zentralbankrat Central Bank Council Zentrale fuer die Bekaempfung des Unlauteren Wettbewerbs Institute Against Unfair Competition Zentralkomittee der Katholiken German Catholic Committee Zentralrat der Juden German Jewish Committee Zentralrat der Muslime German Muslim Committee Zentralverband des deutschen Handwerks Central Association of German Trade Zeugnisverweigerungsrecht provisions for those bound by oaths of confidentiality; immunity from witness; [constitutional] right to refuse testimony Zinsabschlagsteuer provisional tax (payment) (on income from interest); This will be an estimate, and you can claim against it if you paid too much.; => Quellensteuer; Footnote Zivildienst (mandatory/compulsory) social service (instead of military service) (for conscientious objectors) zu Lasten von at the expense of Zumutbarkeit, Zumutbarkeitsregel reasonableness, suitability, acceptability, acceptable-employment regulations, appropriateness Zusatzaltersversorgung additional retirement pension/insurance ??? Zweitstimme party-vote, party-list vote

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Abgabenbelastung: tax load
Abgassteuer: car exhaust tax
Abmahnung: warning
Absatz: sale, market
Abschiebung: expulsion/to expel, deportation
Abstimmung, freie: free vote
Aktiengesellschaft: joint-stock company
Al Kaida, El Kaida: Al-Qaeda
alle Angaben ohne Gewaehr: errors and omissions excepted
Alleingang, nationaler: unilateral/solitary move
Alleviten: Allawites
Ampelkoalition: red-yellow-green/traffic light coalition
Amtsgericht: District Court
anfechten: challenge, contest
Angestellte von Banken/Bausparkassen: employees of banks and building-and-loan associations
Angestelltengewerkschaft, Deutsche (DAG): national union of employees
ankurbeln: spur
Anstachelung zum (Rassen-)Hass: hate mongering
Anstiftung zu: incitement to
Anti-Baby-Pille: birth-control pill
Antipersonenminen: anti-personnel mines, booby traps
Antrittsbesuch: first visit
Anwaltschaft, (Bundes-): (Federal) Public Prosecutor's Office
Arbeitgeber: employer
Arbeitgeberpraesident: president of the federal employers' association
Arbeitnehmer-Entsendegesetz: law on the posting of workers [a minimum wage law for the German construction business protecting native workers from low wage competition by posted workers from other EU countries]
Arbeitnehmerfluegel: labour wing
Arbeitnehmersparzulage: employee savings bonus
Arbeitsamt: labour office
Arbeitsbeschaffungsprogramm: job-creation scheme
Arbeitsdirektor (AG): executive for labour relations
Arbeitsgericht, Landes-/Bundes-: Regional/Federal Labour Court
Arbeitslosengeld: unemployment benefit
Arbeitslosengeld II: unemployment assistance
Arbeitslosenhilfe: unemployment assistance
Arbeitsminister: minister of employment
Arbeitsniederlegung: walkout
Arbeitszeitkorridor: flex time
Arbeitszeitverkuerzung bei vollem Lohnausgleich: reduction of working hours without wage reductions/whilst maintaining wage levels
artgerechte Tierhaltung (s.a. freilaufend): ???
Asylbewerberschluessel: standard refugee distribution policy
Asylsuchender: asylum-seeker
Atommuell: nuclear waste
Atomwaffensperrvertrag: Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
auf die Strasse gehen (protestieren): take to the streets
Aufbau Ost: Eastern German development programme
Aufschwung: economic growth, [stärker:] boom
Aufsichtsamt fuer das Kreditwesen, Bundes-: Federal Office for Bank Supervision
Aufsichtsamt fuer das Versicherungswesen, Bundes-: Federal Office for Insurance Companies
Aufsichtsrat(svorsitzender): (chairman of the) board (of directors)
Aufsichtsratsmitglied (AG): Member of the Supervisory Board
Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender (AG): Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Ausbildungsabgabe: training levy
Auslaenderbeauftragter: commissioner for foreigners, Foreigners' Ombudsman
Auslieferungshaft: extradition custody
Ausschuss der Regionen (EU): EU Committee of the Regions
Aussenminister: Foreign minister
Aussiedler, Spaetausssiedler: ethnic German living abroad
Aussperrung: lockout
Auswaertiges Amt: Foreign Ministry
Autonome(r): (masked) left-radical activist
BBB [zum Anfang]
BAfoeG (Bundesausbildungsfoerderungsgesetz): federal education/training assistance [act]
Bankrott, betruegerischer: fraudulent bankruptcy
Bargeld und angelegtes Kapital: currency in circulation and deposits
Bauernverband: farmers' association
Bauminister, -senator: Minister of Building and Construction
Bausparen: targeted saving for self-owned homes
Bauwirtschaft: construction and building industry
Bayern: Bavaria
BDI: siehe: Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie
Beamtenbund, Deutscher: national union of civil servants
Beamter: civil servant, government official
Beauftragter: commissioner, ombudsman/woman/person
Bedarfsgemeinschaft: resource sharing communities
Befangenheitsantrag stellen: to challenge judges for bias
Befehl (gerichtl.): writ
Begnadigung: release on ministerial/presidential licence
Behoerde: government authority
Beihilfe zu: aiding and abetting (to aid and abet)
Beirat (AG): Advisory Board
Bekennerschreiben: letter claiming responsibility
Beklagter, Angeklagter: defendant
Belastungszeuge: witness for the prosecution
Beratungsschein (bei Schwangerschaftsabbruechen): proof of mandatory counseling
Berufseinstigesjahr: job starter year
Berufsgenossenschaft: employers' liability insurance association
Berufsgenossenschaft: workers compensation board
Besatzungsmacht: occupying power
Besatzungsstatut: occupation statute
Beschaffungskriminalitaet: procurement criminality
Besitzstaende: achieved assets, values
Besoldungsanpassungsgesetz: law on civil service wage reconciliation; law on public employees pay scale reconciliation
Betaeubungsmittelgesetz: narcotics law
Betriebspruefung: company audit
Betriebsrat: workers'/employees' representation [Erklaerung]
Betrug: fraud
Beugehaft: coercive detention
Bewaehrung: suspended sentence; on probation
bewaffnet ... (Verbrechen): armed ...
Bezirksverbaende: district society, organisation
Bezirksverbaende: district unions (Gewerkschaft)
Billig -arbeiter, -lohn: low-pay workforce, low-pay wage
BIP (Bruttoinlandsprodukt): GNP (gross national product)
bis (zeitl.): till/until (during the whole time), by (Frist)
Bischofskonferenz: conference of bishops
blauer Brief (EU): early warning
Blauhelm -soldat, -einsatz: UN soldier, UN mission
Bluter: haemophiliac
Blutkonserve: blood conserve, supply in blood bank, donated blood
Boden-Luft-Rakete: surface-to-air missile
Boerse ...: stock market was bullish/bearish, unchanged
Boerse schloss ...: stock market closed up/down ... points; ... in heavy/light trading
Boersenaufsichtsamt: Securities & Exchange Commission ?
Boersenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels: German book dealers and publishers assoc.
Branche, (z.B. Automobil-): (car) industry, trade
Brandanschlag: arson attack, fire bombing
Braunkohle: lignite
Brennelemente: nuclear fuel elements
Brennstaebe: nuclear fuel rods
Brief(kurs): selling rate
Briefbombe: letter bomb
Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP): gross national product (GNP)
BSP (Bruttosozialprodukt): GDP (gross domestic product)
Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen, B90/G: Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen
Buergerbegehren: popular initiative
Buergerentscheid: referendum
Buergermeister: (allg., Leiter der Stadtverwaltung) mayor, head of municipal administration; (Nds. und NRW, der i.A. ehrenamtliche Vorsitzende des Gemeinderates) head of municipal parliament; (HH und B, der Chef der Regierung (Senat)) head of federal state government
Buergerschaft: state parliament
Bummelstreik: go-slow
Bund der Steuerzahler: Bund der Steuerzahlerzahler (taxpayers' association)
Bund der Vertriebenen (BdV): Sudeten wartime expellees' association
Bund fuer Umwelt- und Naturschutz (BUND): BUND (environmentalist pressure group), Germany's Nature Protection Alliance
Bundes...: siehe auch unter dem Hauptwort
Bundesaerztekammer: Federal General Medical Council
Bundesamt fuer ...: Federal Department of ...
Bundesamt fuer Luftfahrt: siehe: Luftfahrtbundesamt
Bundesamt fuer Strahlenschutz,: Federal Department for Radiation Safety
Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz: Federal Department for the Tutelage of the Constitution (domestic Intelligence agency)
Bundesanstalt fuer Arbeit: Federal Labour Office
Bundesbahn AG, Deutsche: German Railways Corporation
Bundesbank: Germany's central bank
Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte: federal commissioner for data privacy
Bundesfinanzhof: Federal Fiscal Court
Bundesgerichtshof: Federal High Court
Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS): border guards
Bundesland: state
Bundesliga, 1./2.: Bundesliga, First/Second Division
Bundesministerium des Innern, BMI: Federal Ministry of the Interior
Bundesministerium fuer Arbeit und Sozialordnung, BMA: Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
Bundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung u. Technologie, BMBF: Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology
Bundesministerium fuer Ernährung, Landwirtschaft u. Forsten, BML: Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry
Bundesministerium fuer Familie, Senioren, Frauen u. Jugend, BMFSFJ: Federal Ministry of Family, Seniors, Women and Youth
Bundesministerium fuer Finanzen, BMF: Federal Ministry of Finance
Bundesministerium fuer Gesundheit, BMG: Federal Ministry of Health
Bundesministerium fuer Justiz, BMJ: Federal Ministry of Justice
Bundesministerium fuer Raumordnung, Bauwesen u. Staedtebau, BMBau: Federal Ministry of Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development
Bundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz u. Reaktorsicherheit, BMU: German Federal Environment Ministry
Bundesministerium fuer Verkehr, BMV: Federal Ministry of Transport
Bundesministerium fuer Verteidigung, BMVg: Federal Ministry of Defense
Bundesministerium fuer Wirtschaft, BMWi: Federal Ministry of Economics
Bundesministerium fuer Wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit u. Entwicklung, BMZ: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Bundesnachrichtendienst: German Foreign Intelligence Agency
Bundespraesident: German President
Bundesrat: Bundesrat, upper house of the parliament
Bundestag: Bundestag, lower house of the parliament
Bundestagsausschuss: Commission of the Bundestag / Bundestag Committee
Bundestagsausschuss fuer Auswertiges und Verteidigung: parliamentary commission for foreign affairs and defense
Bundestagsinnenausschuss: Committee for Interior Affairs
Bundesverband der Deutschen Arbeitgeber: Federal Alliance of German Employers
Bundesverband der deutschen Industrie: Federation of German Industry
Bundesverband der Mittelstaendischen Wirtschaft: Federation of the Mittelstand Economy
Bundesverband der Tierversuchsgegner: Federal Association of People Against Animal Experiments
Bundesverdienstkreuz: (State Honour)
Bundesverdienstkreuz, Grosses: Federal Germany's highest civilian Order of Merit, the "Grosses Bundesverdienstkreuz"
Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbaende (BDA): Federal Alliance of German Employers' Associations
Bundesversammlung: Presidential Election Council, Federal Convention [die Mitglieder des Bundestags und in gleicher Anzahl gewaehlte Vertreter der Landtage (meistens Buerger oder Persönlichkeiten des öffentlichen Lebens)]
Bundesversicherungsanstalt fuer Angestellte (BfA): BfA (Federal Pension Plan Agency for Employees)
Bundeswehr: Bundeswehr, armed forces
Bundeswehrbeauftragter: Commissioner/Parliamentary Ombudsman for the Armed Forces
Bundeswehreinsatz: engagement of the Bundeswehr
BVG (Bundesverfassungsgericht): Federal Administrative Court
CCC [zum Anfang]
CASTOR: cask for storage and transport of radioactive material
CDU, Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands: Christian-Democratic Union
CSU, Christlich Soziale Union (nur in Bayern): Christian-Social Union
DDD [zum Anfang]
DAG: siehe: Deutsche Angestelltengewerkschaft
Darlehen: mortgage, loan
Datenschutzbeauftragter: data privacy commissioner, commissioner for data privacy
DAX: DAX
DDR: GDR (German Democratic Republic)
Der Spiegel: the news magazine Der Spiegel
Deutsche Angestelltengewerkschaft (DAG): national union of employees
Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung: German Association of Mathematicians
Deutsche Postgewerkschaft (DPG): German Postal Union
Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB): national trade union federation, German federation of unions
Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag (DIHT): Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce [laut DIHT-Webseite]
Deutscher Staedte- und Gemeindebund: Council of German Districts
Deutscher Staedtetag: Council of German Cities
Devisen: foreign currency
Diaeten: parliamentary pay/remuneration/salary, emoluments
Dienst nach Vorschrift: work to rule
Diplomatischer Corps: diplomatic body (corps)
Direktmandat: direct vote
Diskontsatz: discount rate
Dorsch (Ostsee u. Jugendform) = Kabeljau: cod
Drehgestell (beim Zug): bogey
Dreikoenigstag: Epiphany
Drittes Reich: Third Reich
Druecker (Zeitschriftenwerber): pusher
Durchsuchungsbefehl: search warrant
EEE [zum Anfang]
Eckwert: cornerstone, base/key rate
Ehegattensplitting: joint tax declaration (for spouses)
Ehrenvorsitzender (Verb.): Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors
Eigenheim: owner-occupied house
Eigenheimzulage: subsidy to apply to the construction of a house
Eigenkapital: own/private capital, capital resources, capital, stock and reserve, equity
Eilentscheidung (jur.): urgency decision ?
Eilverfahren: expedited proceedings/trial/case
Eingreiftruppe, schnelle: rapid response force
Einheitsfonds: Unity Fund
einmotten: to mothball ("Ontario to scrap mothballed reactors" The Globe and Mail)
Einnahmeausfall: loss of income, loss of revenue
Einsatzbereitschaft (mil.): combat readiness
Einzeletat: budget position(s)
Eishockey: hockey
Elterngeld: parenting money, parenting payment
EMNID: polling research institute EMNID
Endlagerung: (nuclear) waste repository
Energiewirtschaft: energy sector
Entfuehrung (Flugzeug): hijacking
Entfuehrung (Person): kidnapping, hostage taking
entgleisen: derail
Entlastung (eines Amtsinhabers): discharge, approval
Entlastung (von Anschuldigungen): exoneration, to clear
Entscheidung: ruling, finding
Entsendegesetz (Bauarbeiter): law on payment of foreign workers seconded to German construction sites
Entsendegesetz (Beamte): law on secondment
Entsendegesetz (Soldaten): law on deployment
Entsendegesetz, Arbeitnehmer-: law on the posting of workers [a minimum wage law for the German construction business protecting native workers from low wage competition by posted workers from other EU countries]
Entsenderichtlinie: ?target rule?
Entsorgung: waste disposal
Erblastentilgungsfond: Debt Redemption Fund
Erlass (gerichtl.): writ
Erlass einer einstweiliger Verfuegung: to grant an injunction
Ermittlungsverfahren: preliminary investigations
Ernennungsurkunde: letter of appointment
erpressen: extort, blackmail, hold someone to ransom
Erpresser: extortionist/extortioner (nur BE), blackmailer
Erpressung (a): extortion (Androhung von Gewalt)
Erpressung (b): blackmail(ing) (Androhung von Skandal)
Ersatzkrankenkasse: substitute public health insurance/fund/scheme
Erststimme: candidate-vote, first-past-the-post vote
Ertragsanteil: [a calculated percentage of total retirement pay, at an average of around 32%, depending on several factors such as retirement age, total amount, any collateral income] a complex formula determines what portion, if any, of pension income may be taxed, and at what rate; in practice, the formula means that average pension recipients pay no tax on their pensions
Erziehungsgeld: child-care benefit
Erziehungsurlaub: child-care leave
Europaeischer Einigungsprozess: European unification process
Europäische Einigung: European unification
europäischer Integrationsprozess: process of European integration
Europaminister der Laender: state ministers for European concerns
Europarat: Council of Europe
Existenzminimum: official subsistence level
Expertengutachten: expert witness
FFF [zum Anfang]
fahrlaessig: by negligence
Familienlastenausgleich: incentives for young families ???
Familienminister: Minister for the Family
FDP, Freie Demokratische Partei: Liberal-Democratic Party
Fehlbelegungsabgabe: penalty for improper use of fixed-price housing
Feinstaub: fine particle matter
festnehmen, vorlaeufig: to take into custody, to hold
Feuerschutzabgabe: fire fighting levy
Finanzamt: revenue office
Finanzausschuss (Einnahmen): ways and means committee (USA)
Finanzbeamter: fiscal officer
Finanzgericht: Fiscal Court
Finanzminister, -ium: Finance Minister, Ministry of Finance
Finanzpolitik: fiscal policy
Flaechentarifvertrag: in collective agreements: Global awards, as opposed to localised awards or enterprise awards. They would cover all of Germany, regardless of 'poor' or 'rich' regions/businesses.
Fleischerhandwerk: butchery
Flensburger Punktedatei: traffic penalty register
Fluesterasfalt, Fluesterasphalt: whisper asphalt, porous asphalt, 'soundblocking' tarseal
Folgerezept: refill
Fraktion: parliamentary group, faction
Fraktionsvorsitzender: parliamentary party leader
Fraktionszwang: party discipline
Freiberufler: self-employed
freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordng.: free democratic order/society
freilaufend (Huehner): free range
freisprechen (jmd.): acquit, find s.o. not guilty
Freiwillige Feuerwehr: volunteer fire department
Fremdverschulden: third-party responsibility
Fruehrente: early retirement
Fuehrungsgremium: governing body
Fuenf Weise: s. Sachverstaendigenrat
Fundis (Fraktion der Gruenen): fundamentalists, hard-core, radical
Fussball: soccer
GGG [zum Anfang]
Ganztagsschule: full day school
Gastarbeiter: Gastarbeiter (foreign worker, guest worker)
Gauck-Behoerde: Authority overseeing the files of Stasi, the former East German State Security
Gefaengnisstrafe bekommen: the accused received prison sentences of six to 13 years
Gefluegelpest: pseudo fowl pest, poultry plague, avian influenza, bird flu, (Exotic) Newcastle Disease
gegen Unbekannt: versus persons unknown
Geiselnahme: taking of hostages, to take s.o. hostage
Geld(kurs): buying rate
Geldmengenziel: monetary target (ranges)
Geldmengenziel (M1): target (range) for narrow money (M1)
Geldmengenziel (M3): target (range) for broad money (M3)
Gemeinde: (local) community
Gemeinde (Kirchen-): congregation
Gemeinde (pol.): municipality
gemeinsamer (Mord etc.): joint (murder etc.)
Generalbevollmaechtigter (AG): General Manager
Generalmajor: general major
Generalsekretaer: secretary-general
Generalstaatsanwalt: Attorney-General, Chief State Prosecutor
geringfuegige Beschaeftigung: less-than-part-time jobs
Gesamtmetall: employers association for the steel and engineering industry
Gesamtverband des Deutschen Steinkohlebergbau: Federal Association of the German Coal Mining Industries
Geschaeftsfuehrender Gesellschafter (KG): Managing Partner
Geschaeftsfuehrender Partner (OHG): Managing Partner
geschaeftsfuehrender Praesident: caretaker/acting president
Geschaeftsfuehrer (Firma): General Manager[GmbH], Managing Director[Verb., GmbH]
Geschaeftsfuehrer (Partei): secretary-general
Gesellschafter: stockholder [GmbH], partner [OHG]
Gesellschafterversammlung(GmbH): stockholders' meeting
-gesetz (z.B. Einkommensteuer-): law
Gesetzgeber: the legislative, the lawmaker(s)
Gespraechsleitfaden: interview guide
gestehen: the accused pleaded guilty to 2nd degree murder
Gesundheitsminister: Minister of Health
Gewerbeertragssteuer: trade tax on profit
Gewerbekapitalsteuer: local trade tax on capital
Gewerbesteuer: trade tax
Gewerkschaft Bergbau: union for the mining industry
Gewerkschaft der Eisenbahnbeschaeftigten: union of railway employees
Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW): union for education and science
Gewerkschaft Handel-Banken-Versicherung (HBV): union for the trade, bank, and insurance industry
Gewerkschaft Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststaetten (NGG): Union for the food and restaurant sector
Gewerkschaft oeffentliche Dienste-Transport-Verkehr (oeTV): Union for the public service and transportation sector
Gewerkschaftsfunktionaer: union official
Gewerkschaftstag: labour union convention
Gewerkschaftsvertreter: union representative
GmbH: privately held corporation
Gorbatschow: Mikhail Gorbachev
Grosse Koalition: Grand Coalition
Grosse Strafkammer: first chamber of the regional court
Grosse Tarifkommission: high-ranking union-committee deciding on the collective bargaining strategy
Grosser Lauschangriff: great surveillance attack, grand bugging attack
Grossversuch: large-scale testing
Gruen-Alternative Liste (GAL): Green-Alternative Party
Grundgesetz: Grundgesetz (constitution), Basic Law
GUS (Gemeinschaft Unabhaengiger Staaten): CIS (Community of Independent States)
Gymnasium: upper secondary school, grammar school
HHH [zum Anfang]
Haestraeger: people in traditional carnival costumes
Haftbefehl: arrest warrant
Haftrichter: judge at committal hearing (?)
Halbschwergewicht: light-heavyweight
Handelsbilanz: trade balance
Handlungsbevollmaechtigter (AG): assistant manager
Handwerksverband: handicraft association, contractors association
Hauptangeklagter: principal defendant
Hauptausschuss (Verb.): executive committee
Hauptgeschaeftsfuehrer (Verb.): general executive manager
Hauptschule: standard secondary school
Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie: German building contractors' association
Hauptversammlung (AG): stockholders' meeting
Haushalt: budget
Haushaltsausschuss (Ausgaben): appropriations committee (USA)
Haushaltsloch: budget deficit
haushaltspolitischer Sprecher der XYZ-Fraktion: budgetary spokesperson for the XYZ faction
Hausverbot: restraining order
HBV: siehe: Gewerkschaft Handel-Banken-Versicherung
Hebesatz ([Grund]Steuer-): local [property] tax multiplier
Heer: ground troops
Hessen: Hesse
Hetzschrift, -kampagne: smear publication, smear campaign
Hinspiel (i.d. Bundesliga spielt jede Mannschaft 2x gegen eine andere Mannschaft): first leg (game)
Hochseefischerei: deep-sea fishery
Hockey: field hockey
Huehnerpest: siehe Geflügelpest
humanitaere Gruende, aus h. G.: (on) compassionate grounds
I I I [zum Anfang]
Ich-AG: Me Incorporated
Ifo Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung: Ifo Institute for Economic Research
IG Bau-Steine-Erden: construction industry union
IG Metall: union for metal, engineering and electronics
in Brand setzen: set on fire
Industrie- und Handelskammer: Chamber of Commerce
Innenminister: Minister of the Interior
innerdeutsche Grenze: German-German border
Institut fuer Ernaehrungsforschung: Institute for Nutritional Sciences
Intendant: director ?, president-elect
Internationale Schutztruppe (ISAF): International Security Assistance Force
Islamist: Islamic extremist, Islamist
JJJJ [zum Anfang]
Jahressteuergesetz: annual tax law
Judenverfolgung: persecution of the Jews (not: Jewish pers.)
Jugendschoeffengericht: jury juvenile court
Jugendstrafe: juvenile arrest, juvenile detention
juristisch zur Verantwortung ziehen: sue; hold accountable; take s.o. to court for s.th.
Justizminister: Minister of Justice
KKKK [zum Anfang]
Kabeljau = Dorsch (Ostsee u. Jugendform): cod
Kammergericht: higher court
Kammergericht (Berlin): Superior Court of Justice of Berlin
Kampfeinsatz: shoot-to-kill mission
Kanzler, Bundes-: Chancellor
Kanzleramt, Bundes-: Chancellor's Office
Kanzleramtsminister: Secretary of the Chancellor's Office
Kanzlermehrheit: the absolute majority of all members of the Bundestag
Kanzlerrunde: talks at the Chancellor's office
Kapitalsteuer: capital gains tax
Kapitalverkehrsbilanz: balance on capital account
Kartellamt: Anti-Trust Office
Kassenaerztliche Bundesvereinigung: National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians(Quelle: http://www.kbv.de/international/international100.htm)
Kassenarzt: physician registered with health insurance funds
Katholikentag: Catholic church congress, Catholic church convention
Kaution: bail
Kiew: Kiev
Kinderfreibetrag: child allowance
Kindergeld: child benefit
Kirchenasyl: asylum granted by church, church refuge/sanctuary
Kirchentag: church congress, church convention
Kirchentagspraesident: president of the (xxx) church convention
Klaeger (Zivilrecht): plaintiff, claimant
klagen: sue, file charges, lay charges
Klausurtagung: seclusion meeting, meeting behind closed doors
Koalitionsregierung: coalition government
Koeln: Cologne
Koerperverletzung (schwere): (grievous) bodily harm, physical injury
Kohlepfennig: energy tax (support of coal industry)
Kombilohn: combination wage (i.e. government-subsidized paycheck; workscheme where wages for unskilled labour are topped up by government)
Kommanditgesellschaft (KG): Limited Partnership
Kommanditist (KG): Limited Partner
Kommission (= Ausschuss): committee, but: Commission of the EU
Kommission (= Delegation): commission
Kommune: local council
Komplementaer (KG): General Partner
Konjunktur: business cycle
Kontrollkommission: control commission
Konzertierte Aktion: cooperation agreement between state, industry and unions)
Kooperationsrat: Council on Cooperation
Kosovo-Albaner: Kosovar Albanian
Krankenhausnotopfer: an additional emolument exacted from public health insurance members for hospital refurbishment)
Krankenkasse: A health insurance institution which collects contributions from insured individuals and employers and grants payments in the event of illness. At present there are almost 1,300 in existence, divided into statutory public, guild, seafarers' and company health insurance funds and mineworkers' and white-collar workers' health insurance funds (an approved alternative fund, i.e. "Ersatzkasse", see social security obligation ) and private health insurance funds. (http://www.eurofound.ie/emire/germany.html)
Krankenkassenbeitrag: health insurance contribution
Krawall: riot
Kreditabwicklungsfond: Credit Fund
Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau: Reconstruction Loan Corporation
Kreis (Land-): district, District of XY-town
Kriminalamt, Bundes-/Landes-: federal/state criminal police (agency)
Kronzeuge: crown witness
KSZE / OSZE: CSCE / OSCE
kuendigen (durch Arbeitgeber), Kuendigung: lay off (Kündigung: lay-off), dismiss, sack, fire, give the "pink slip"
Kultusministerium: Ministry of Culture/Cultural Issues
Kur: sanatorium/rehabilitation treatments
Kurzprogramm (Eiskunstlauf): short program(me)
LLLL [zum Anfang]
Ladenschlussgesetz: business hour law
Ladenschlusszeiten: business/shop/shopping/store/store closing/trading hours
Laenderausgleichsfond: the equalization-of-burdens fund
Laenderfinanzausgleich: fiscal equalisation, (federal) transfer payments, fiscal federalism
Laenderrat (B90/Gruene): high-ranking party committee
Landesgruppe (CSU): CSU members of parliament
Landesvorsitzender: chair of the [state] [party]
Landeswahlleiter: head of regional election office
Landgericht (Ober-): (Higher) Regional Court
Landkreis: district, District of XY-town
Landrat: District President
Landratsamt: district administration
Landsmannschaft, Schlesische: Silesian Traditional Association
Landtag: state assembly/parliament
Lauschangriff, Grosser: grand bugging attack, great surveillance attack
Lebenshaltungskosten: consumer price index
Lebenskultur: Lebenskultur (art of living)
Leihstimmenkampagne: giving the party-vote to a small party and the candidate-vote to the larger coalition partner
Leistungsbilanz: balance on current account
Leitkultur: guiding culture, defining culture, lead-culture, key culture, German culture as a guideline, reference culture
Leitzinsen: key short-term interest rate
Lesung: the bill has passed the 3rd reading
Linksruck: push to the left
Lohnfortzahlung: paid sick leave, sick pay
Lohnkostenniveau: level of labour cost
Lohnnebenkosten: indirect wage costs, fringe benefits, (benefit contributions paid by employers), wage fringes
Lombardsatz: lombard rate
Luftfahrtbundesamt / Bundesamt fuer Luftfahrt: Federal Department of Aviation
Luftwaffe: air force
MMM [zum Anfang]
Maennerriege: 'Old Boys'-network. Riege is a group of men doing athletics, together.
Magnetschwebebahn: high-speed magnetic levitation train
Mallorca: Majorca (Insel), Palma de Mallorca (Hauptstadt)
Marine: navy
Markterschliessung: entering (a) new market(s)
Masseneinkommen: mass income ?
Massenkarambolage, Massenunfall: pile-up accident
Mastschwein: hog (AE), pig, swine (BE)
Maul- und Klauenseuche: foot-and-mouth disease, hoof and mouth disease
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Menschenraub: abduction
Menschenrechtler: civil rights activist
Menschenrechtskonvention: Human Rights Convention
menschliches Versagen: human error
Milliarde: billion, bn
Mindestlohn: minimal living income / wage
Mindestreserve: minimum reserve ratio
Minensuchgeschwader: mine-detection squadron
Minister: Minister
Ministerialdirektor: Assistant secretary
Ministerialdirigent: Junior assistant secretary
Ministerialerlass: Ministerial order
Ministerialrat: Principal
Ministerium: Ministry
Ministerpraesident: State Premier
Ministerrat: Cabinet (Council)
Mitangeklagter: co-defendant
Mitbestimmung (Arbeiter-, betriebliche): worker participation in management
Mittaeter: accomplice
Mittellandkanal: (German) Midlands Channel
Mittelstand: middle class (foot note 3)
Mittelstandsvereinigung (Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsvereinigung der CDU/CSU): Small and Medium Entrepreneurs Association; eher wörtlich: Association representing the middle class
Mobilitaetszulage: travel allowance ?
Mord: murder
Mordverdacht: suspected for murder
Mutterschaftsurlaub: maternity leave
Mutterschutz: motherhood leave
NNN [zum Anfang]
Nachforderung: afterclaim, extra claim
Nachrichten der letzten site: News from the Far Site
Nachtragshaushalt: budget update
Nachwuchs: prospective/future scratch players
Nahost: Middle-East (and not "Near-East")
Nebenklaeger: third-party action
Neigetechnikzug (Pendolino): train with tilting technology
Neonazi: neonazi
Neuverschuldung: budget deficit, new debts
Niedersachsen: Lower Saxony
Niederungen (Wetterbericht): low-lying areas
Nobelpreistraeger: Nobel laureate
Noetigung: duress, coercion, intimidation
Nordrhein-Westfalen: North Rhine-Westphalia
Normenkontrollklage: to challenge a law in the Federal Constitutional Court, petition to the FCC to override a law because it is seen to violate personal rights
NPD, National-Demokratische Partei Deutschlands: [rechtsextreme Partei]
OOO [zum Anfang]
Oberbuergermeister: Mayor (kreisfreie Staedte in NRW u. Nds.)
Oberflaechenhaftung (Strasse): surface grip
Oberlandesgericht: Higher Regional Court
Obrigkeitshoerigkeit: authoritarian serfdom
oeffentlicher Dienst: Germany's public services (public sector)
oeffnungsklausel: escape clause
OHG: Partnership
Orden wider den tierischen Ernst: Medal against Deadly Seriousness
Organisation der Kriminalbeamten: organization of detective
Orkan: severe/violent/hurricane-force storm,hurricane
Ossie: Ossie
Ostermarsch: Easter march
Ostseerat: Baltic Sea Council
Ozonloch: hole in the ozone layer, ozone hole
Ozonverordnung: ozone threshold(?)
PPP [zum Anfang]
Paepstlicher Nuntius: papal delegate
Paketbombe: package bomb
Parteifuehrung: party leadership
Parteiordnungverfahren: internal proceedings (by the SPD, z.B.)
Parteipraesidium: party board/council
Parteiprogramm: party platform
Parteitag, Bundes-/Landes-: federal/state party conference
Patientenbeteiligung: patient participation in the cost of medicine
PDS, Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus: Party of Democratic Socialism (former communists)
PEN: International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists
Penner: bum, slacker, "you snooze - you loose", drifter; vagrant; hobo; tramp; derelict; straggler; (blighter), ausführlich
Pension: pension (of tenured government employees [Beamte], paid by the government in return for lower pay)
Persoenlich haftender Gesellschafter (KG): General Partner
Petitionsausschuss: parliamentary petitions committee
Pflegeversicherung: care insurance
Pille danach: morning-after contraception
PISA: Programme for International Student Assessment
Plaedoyer: final arguments, final address
ploetzlicher Kindstod: cot death, SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome)
Pokal der Pokalsieger (soccer): Cup Winners' Cup
Politbuero: politburo
Politikverdrossenheit: sulkiness about politics
Praeimplantationsdiagnostik (PID): preimplantation genetic testing
Praesident (Verb.): President
Praesidium (eines Verbandes): board of directors, executive board, steering committee
Praxisgebuehr: medical office fee, user fee
preisbereinigt: in real terms
Prionenerkrankungen: prion (proteinaceous infectious particles) diseases
Privatkundengeschaeft (Bank): private banking
Prokurist (AG) ;: authorized officer
QQQ [zum Anfang]
Quartalsgewinn: first/second/third/fourth quarter earnings
Quellensteuer: allg.: pay-as-you-go-tax; tax that is deducted at the source, i.e. tax on capital income is deducted by the bank
räuberisch: rapacious
räuberische Erpressung: rapacious extortion
RRR [zum Anfang]
Radlager (sg.): wheel bearings (pl.)
Radreifen (beim ICE): (wheel/steel) rims, double-reinforced metal tires, wheel hoops
Rand (N.N. sagte am Rande von Veranstaltung X in B., ...): In passing while attending the X event, N.N. said ...While in B. for the X. event, N. said in passing ...
Raps: Canola (tradename; rape variety with little erucic acid and glucosinolates), rape, rapeseed, oil-seed rape
Rasterfahndung: computer search
Raub: robbery
Raumfahrtunternehmen: space mission / space enterprise
Realos (Fraktion der Gruenen): Realists, Moderates
Realschule: intermediate secondary school
Rechnungshof, Bundes-/Landes-: Fed./State Court of Auditors
-recht (z.B. Beamtendienst-): code
Rechtsanspruch: right
rechtsextrem: extrem rightist
Rechtsruck: push to the right
Rede halten: deliver a speech
Regierung: government
Regierungskoalition: government, governing coalition
Regierungskreise: government ranks
Regionalausschuss der EU: EU Committee of the Regions
Reichensteuer: wealth tax
Reichsbund: [a social organization]
Reichskristallnacht, Reichspogromnacht: Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass in 1938 when Nazi thugs launched the pogrom against the Jews [Washington Post]
Rente: pension (of workers and employees, paid by their contributions)
Rentenkassen: pension plan agencies ?
Rentenueberleitungsgesetz: pension transferal law
Rezession: recession, slowdown
Rheinland-Pfalz: Rhineland-Palatinate
Rinderpest: rinderpest, cattle-plague, serapis
Rinderwahnsinn (BSE): mad cow disease (BSE, bovine spongiform encephalitis)
Ring deutscher Makler: Association of German Real Estate Agents
Ringfahndung: cordon of police, cordon search
Risiko- und Beteiligungskapital: capital for equity and debt financing
Risikostrukturausgleich: balance payment, risk equity payment
Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF): Red Army Faction
Rote Karte (Fussball): red card, ejection from a game
Rueckmeldegebuehr: registration fee (at university for each term)
Rueckruf: recall: Car manufacturer BMW asks 75'000 owners to return their cars to BMW dealers for checking the seat heating
Rueckspiel (i.d. Bundesliga spielt jede Mannschaft 2x gegen eine andere Mannschaft): second leg (game)
Rundfunkstaatsvertrag: inter-state broadcasting treaty; regulations on public broadcasting
SSS [zum Anfang]
Sachsen: Saxony
Sachsen-Anhalt: Saxony-Anhalt
Sachverstaendigenrat (zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichenEntwicklung): German Council of Economic Experts (Quelle: www.sachverstaendigenrat-wirtschaft.de)
Sanierungskonzept: rehabilitation plan
Sarajewo: Sarajevo
Satzung (einer Partei), Bundes-: federal statutes/charter
Schaden: x DM Schaden: x DM worth of damage
Schadenfreude: Schadenfreude, malicious joy, gloating
Scheinselbstaendigkeit: nominally independent contract work
Schicksalsgemeinschaft: the common fate of [the EU member countries], they shared a common fate
Schiessbefehl: shoot-to-kill command/order
Schlussplaidoyers: (make the) final/closing arguments
Schlussstand (Boerse): at closing
Schnellboot: motor torpedo-boat (MTB)
schoenrechnen (Finanzhaushalt): creative accounting
Schreckschusspistole: starter pistol
Schulamt, Ober-: State Board of Education, (higher) school authority/board,
Schwarzarbeit: moonlighting
Schweigeminute: moment of silence
Schwein(Mast-): hog (AE), pig, swine (BE)
schwer (Verbrechen): serious ???
SED, Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands: Socialist Unity Party of Germany, formerly ruling party of East Germany
Seezunge (Fischart): sole
Selbstaendiger: self-employed
Senat: senate
Senator: Minister
Siegermaechte: Allies
SMS (Short Messaging Service): SMS, text messaging, or texting (short texts one can send by mobile phone)
Solarsiedlung: solar-powered housing project
Solidarzuschlag: solidarity surcharge, extra 7.5% on income tax
Sondermuell (-deponie): hazardous/special waste (depot)
Sorgfaltspflichtverletzung: negligence
Sozialabbau: welfare cuts
Sozialabbau: social slimming
Sozialamt: (social) welfare office
Sozialausschuss (CDU, ...): committee for social matters
Sozialdemokratie: S. (workers' movement for social and democratic rights)
Sozialgericht, Bundes-/Landes-: Federal/Regional Social Court
Sozialgesetzbuch: social code
Sozialhilfe: social welfare assistance
Sozialministerium, Bundes-: federal welfare ministry
Sozialwohnung: housing at controlled prices
Sparkasse: savings bank
Sparpaket: austerity/savings package
SPD, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands: Social-Democratic Party of Germany, Social-Democrats
Spitzenkandidat: leading candidate, top candidate
Sprecher/in, Partei: (party) spokes(wo)man, -person
Sprengstoffanschlag: bombing
Springreiten: show jumping
Staatenbund: confederation
Staatsakt: state act/ceremony
Staatsaktion: political event
Staatsangehoeriger: citizen
Staatsanleihe: public (govt) loan, public (govt) bond
Staatsanwalt, -schaft: public prosecutor, p p's office
Staatsarchiv: state archives
Staatsbegraebnis: state funeral
Staatsbuergerschaft (doppelte): citizenship (dual)
Staatsdienst: public service
Staatsgebiet: territory of state
Staatsgewalt: executive power
Staatshoheit: sovereignty
Staatskosten (auf S.): public expense (at p. e.)
Staatsminister (Bay.): Minister of State
Staatsminister (Bund): government secretary
Staatsquote: Die Staatsquote misst das Verhältnis von Staatsausgaben zum Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP); government expenditure as a percentage of GIP
Staatssekretaer: Secretary of State, Permanent Under-Secretary?
Staatssekretär: secretary of state (BE), undersecretary (AE)
Staatssicherheitsdienst, Stasi: GDR State Security, Stasi
Staatsstreich: coup d'etat
Stabilitaetspakt: stabilizing measures, Stability Pact (EU)
Stadtdirektor (NRW, Nds.): mayor, head of municipal administration
Stadtverordnetenversammlung: city assembly, city parliament
Stammzellen, embryonale: embryonic stem cells
Standort Deutschland: S.D. (Germany as an industrial location, Germany as base for economic activity)
Standortdebatte: debate about Germany's attractiveness as base for economic activity
Stasi: Stasi (East Germany's infamous secret police)
Statistisches Bundesamt: Federal Department of Statistics
Steinkohle: coal (ohne Zusatz)
steinreich: filthy rich
Sterbehilfe: assisted dying
Steuerfahndung: Tax Investigation Office
Steuerfreibetrag: personal allowance, tax threshold
Steuergelder: tax revenue
Steuergewerkschaft: ???
Steuerhinterziehung: tax fraud
Steuersplitting: Steuerspl. (married couples' beneficial tax rate)
Steuerverkuerzung: tax evasion
Stilllegung: shutdown
Strafbefehl (in Hoehe von 100 Euro): order (to pay 100 euro penalty)
Strafe: sentence, punishment
Strafrecht: criminal code, penal code
Streiflicht der SZ: "Spotlight" from SZ
Studentenwerk: (Federal) Office for student affairs
Stuetzungskaeufe (bei Devisen): support purchases (of currency by central bank)
Sturm (schwer): storm (heavy)
Sturmtief: cyclone, depression
Suchbefehl: search warrant
TTT [zum Anfang]
Taeter: perpetrator
Taeter-Opfer-Ausgleich: victim-offender mediation
Tag der deutschen Einheit: German Unity Day, Day of German Unity
Tarifautonomie: private sector collective bargaining
Tarifbezirk: bargaining district
Tarifkommission, s.a. 'Grosse Tarifkommission': joint working party on pay
Tarifkonflikt: labour dispute
Tarifpolitik: wage policy
Tarifverhandlungen, -runde: collective bargaining
Tarifvertrag: collective wage agreement
Tarnkappenbomber: stealth bomber
Tateinheit (in T. mit): in conjunction with
Technisches Hilfswerk, THW: Technical Assistance Organization
Teilwertabschreibung: write-off to the lower going-concern value, a write-off of expenses for tax purposes
Teilzeitrente: part-time retirement/pension
Terror-Analyse-Zentrum: Information and Analysis Centre "International Terrorism" (s. Nachrichten vom 14.12.2004)
Teuerungsrate: inflation rate
Therapieplatz: therapy position
Thueringen: Thuringia
Tieffluege: low-altitude aircraft flights
Tiermehl: meat and bone meal, ground-up animal by-products
Tierversuchsgegner: animal (rights) activist
Todesfolge (mit T.): causing death, leading to death
Totschlag: manslaughter
Transferleistungen: balance payments/transfers among the federal states
Treuhandanstalt: THA (privatization and restructuring agency)
Treuhandkonto: accounts ... that cannot be tapped by ...
Treuhandkonto: trust fund, trustee account, escrow account
Triebkopf (ICE): power car
Trinkwass-Entnahmestelle: outlet for drinking water
Tschechische Republik: Czech Republic
Tschernobyl: Chernobyl
UUU [zum Anfang]
ueberhangmandat: overhang mandate (official term in NZ!)
Umlaufrendite: average daily return
Umsatzsteuer: VAT (value added tax)
Umweltbundesamt: Federal Department for the Environment
Umweltminister: Minister of the Environment, Environment Minister
UN Fluechtlingskommissariat: Office of the UN High Commissioner f. Refugees
Union (CDU/CSU): Union, CDU/CSU
Unrechtstaten (DDR-): GDR misdeeds
Untergangsstimmung: doom and gloom
Unterschlagung: embezzlement, fraudulent conversion
Untersuchungsausschuss: committee of inquiry, ad-hoc committee
Untersuchungshaft: being held during investigation, invest. custody
Unterwasserkamera: submersible camera
Untreue: embezzlement, fraudulent conversion
Urabstimmung,-wahl: strike ballot, vote of the members (allg.)
Urlaubsgeld: leave benefit
Urteil anfechten: to challenge a court ruling
Urteilsbegruendung: sentencing arguments
Urteilsbekanntgabe: (the Federal Court will hand down a ruling today)
V-Leute: s. Verbindungsmann
V-Mann: s. Verbindungsmann
VVV [zum Anfang]
Verband (Verb.): association
Verbindungsmann: (Geheimdienst, Verfassungsschutz:) informer, informant
Verbrauchernachfrage: private consumption
Verbrechen, organisiertes: organized crime
Verdienstkreuz ...: siehe: Bundesverdienstkreuz
Verfassung: constitution
Verfassungsbeschwerde: constitutional appeal/complaint
verfassungsgemaess: constitutional
Verfassungsgericht, (Bundes-): Federal Constitutional Court
verfassungskonform: constitutional
Verfassungsschutz: German Domestic Intelligence Agency
verfassungswidrig: unconstitutional
Verfolgung (Juden-): persecution (of the Jews)
Verfuegung, einstweilige: temporary injunction
Vergewaltigung in der Ehe: marital rape
Vergleich (Bankrott): composition, receivership, ajudication
Vergleich beantragen: to go int receivership
Vergleich, aussergerichtl.: (out of court) settlement/agreement, arbitration
Verhandlung (allg.): proceedings
Verhandlung (Strafverfahren): trial
Verkehrsminister, -senator: Minister of Transportation
Verlaengerung (nach V.): (Fussball) (in) overtime
Vermittlungsausschuss: Mediation Committee of B.tag and Bundesrat
Vermoegensbildung: subsidy to enable people with income below a certain limit to form assets, nest egg building subsidy
Vermoegensbildungsgesetz: law on a government subsidy for lower income people to help them build up financial assets)
Vermoegenszuwachs: capital gains
Verordnung: by-law, decree
Versicherungsfremdleistungen: extraneous (social insurance) benefits
versuchter (Mord etc.): attempted
Verteidigungsminister, -ium: Ministry of Defense, Defense Minister
Vertrauensabstimmung: vote of confidence
Veruntreuung: embezzlement, fraudulent conversion
verurteilen (fig.): condemn
verurteilen (juristisch): convict, find guilty, condemn, sentence to
Verwaltungsgericht, Ober-, Bundes-: Administrative Court, Higher, Federal
Verwaltungsgerichtshof: Higher Administrative Court
Verwaltungsratsvorsitzender (AG): chairman of the administrative board
Vogelgrippe: bird flu, avian flu, fowl pest
Volksbegehren: popular initiative
Volksentscheid: referendum
vor Gericht stehen: to stand trial
voreingenommen: biased
vorgeladen werden: to be subpoenaed
vorhalten, jmd. etw. v.: reproach someone for something
Vorladung: (writ of) summons, pl.: summonses
Vorladung: subpoena
Vormundschaftsgericht: guardianship court, family court, Court of Family Relations (US), Court of Protection (UK)
vorpreschen: rush ahead, jump (the) start
Vorruhestand: early retirement
Vorsatz: wilfully, with malice aforethought
Vorschaltgesetz: interim law
Vorsitzender (Partei): president
Vorsitzender (Verb.): Chairman of the Board of Directors
Vorsitzender der Geschaeftsfuehrung (GmbH): Chief Executive Officer (CEO) / President
Vorstand (Verb.): Board of Directors / Executive Board
Vorstandsmitglied (AG): Member of the Executive Board
Vorstandssprecher (AG): Chairman of the Executive Board
Vorstandsvorsitzender (AG): President and Chief Executive Officer
Vorverhandlung: preliminary hearing
WWW [zum Anfang]
Waehrungsunion, Europaeische: European Monetary Union (EMU)
Waffenbeschaffung: arms provision
Wahlalternative Arbeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit: Voting Alternative Labour and Social Justice
Wahlbeteiligung: voter turn-out
Wahlkampf: election campaign
Wahlkreis: constituency
Wahlleiter: returning officer, head of the election office
Wahlprogramm: party platform, election campaign
Waldsterben: forest decline
Warnstreik: limited/symbolic/token/warning strike
Wasserpfennig: tax on water use
Wasserwacht: 'Bay Watch' would be the choice of Pamela Anderson or David Hasselhoff fans - better use beach patrols or Water Search and Rescue people. It's not the Water Police, though they usually give a hand.
Wasserwirtschaft: water (supply and) management, water resource management
Wechselkursmechanismus, Europaeischer: European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM)
Wehrbeauftragter, Bundes-: Commissioner/ Parliamentary Ombudsman for the Armed Forces
Weiche: points (pl.)
Wende: upturn, turn-around; re-unification
Werbungskosten (als Steuerabzug): employment expenses (tax deductions for e.e.)
Wertpapierpensionsgeschaeft: securities bought from pension funds, security investments of pension funds Footnote
Wessie: Wessie
Wetteramt: meteorological institute
Wiederaufbereitungsanlage: reconditioning facility
Wirtschaftminister: Minister of Economics
Wirtschaftswachstum: economic growth
Wohlstandsmuell: affluence waste; (Personen:) welfare trash
Wohncontainer: emergency/container housing, housing container
Wohnungsbauminister: Housing Minister
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Zahlungsbilanz: balance-of-payment
Zentralbankgeldmenge: central bank money stock (similar to M3)
Zentralbankrat: Central Bank Council
Zentrale fuer die Bekaempfung des Unlauteren Wettbewerbs: Institute Against Unfair Competition
Zentralkomittee der Katholiken: German Catholic Committee
Zentralrat der Juden: German Jewish Committee
Zentralrat der Muslime: German Muslim Committee
Zentralverband des deutschen Handwerks: Central Association of German Trade
Zeugnisverweigerungsrecht: provisions for those bound by oaths of confidentiality; immunity from witness; [constitutional] right to refuse testimony
Zinsabschlagsteuer: provisional tax (payment) (on income from interest); This will be an estimate, and you can claim against it if you paid too much.; => Quellensteuer; Footnote
Zivildienst: (mandatory/compulsory) social service (instead of military service) (for conscientious objectors)
zu Lasten von: at the expense of
Zumutbarkeit, Zumutbarkeitsregel: reasonableness, suitability, acceptability, acceptable-employment regulations, appropriateness
Zusatzaltersversorgung: additional retirement pension/insurance ???
Zweitstimme: party-vote, party-list vote
Abgabenbelastung: tax load
Abgassteuer: car exhaust tax
Abmahnung: warning
Absatz: sale, market
Abschiebung: expulsion/to expel, deportation
Abstimmung, freie: free vote
Aktiengesellschaft: joint-stock company
Al Kaida, El Kaida: Al-Qaeda
alle Angaben ohne Gewaehr: errors and omissions excepted
Alleingang, nationaler: unilateral/solitary move
Alleviten: Allawites
Ampelkoalition: red-yellow-green/traffic light coalition
Amtsgericht: District Court
anfechten: challenge, contest
Angestellte von Banken/Bausparkassen: employees of banks and building-and-loan associations
Angestelltengewerkschaft, Deutsche (DAG): national union of employees
ankurbeln: spur
Anstachelung zum (Rassen-)Hass: hate mongering
Anstiftung zu: incitement to
Anti-Baby-Pille: birth-control pill
Antipersonenminen: anti-personnel mines, booby traps
Antrittsbesuch: first visit
Anwaltschaft, (Bundes-): (Federal) Public Prosecutor's Office
Arbeitgeber: employer
Arbeitgeberpraesident: president of the federal employers' association
Arbeitnehmer-Entsendegesetz: law on the posting of workers [a minimum wage law for the German construction business protecting native workers from low wage competition by posted workers from other EU countries]
Arbeitnehmerfluegel: labour wing
Arbeitnehmersparzulage: employee savings bonus
Arbeitsamt: labour office
Arbeitsbeschaffungsprogramm: job-creation scheme
Arbeitsdirektor (AG): executive for labour relations
Arbeitsgericht, Landes-/Bundes-: Regional/Federal Labour Court
Arbeitslosengeld: unemployment benefit
Arbeitslosengeld II: unemployment assistance
Arbeitslosenhilfe: unemployment assistance
Arbeitsminister: minister of employment
Arbeitsniederlegung: walkout
Arbeitszeitkorridor: flex time
Arbeitszeitverkuerzung bei vollem Lohnausgleich: reduction of working hours without wage reductions/whilst maintaining wage levels
artgerechte Tierhaltung (s.a. freilaufend): ???
Asylbewerberschluessel: standard refugee distribution policy
Asylsuchender: asylum-seeker
Atommuell: nuclear waste
Atomwaffensperrvertrag: Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
auf die Strasse gehen (protestieren): take to the streets
Aufbau Ost: Eastern German development programme
Aufschwung: economic growth, [stärker:] boom
Aufsichtsamt fuer das Kreditwesen, Bundes-: Federal Office for Bank Supervision
Aufsichtsamt fuer das Versicherungswesen, Bundes-: Federal Office for Insurance Companies
Aufsichtsrat(svorsitzender): (chairman of the) board (of directors)
Aufsichtsratsmitglied (AG): Member of the Supervisory Board
Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender (AG): Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Ausbildungsabgabe: training levy
Auslaenderbeauftragter: commissioner for foreigners, Foreigners' Ombudsman
Auslieferungshaft: extradition custody
Ausschuss der Regionen (EU): EU Committee of the Regions
Aussenminister: Foreign minister
Aussiedler, Spaetausssiedler: ethnic German living abroad
Aussperrung: lockout
Auswaertiges Amt: Foreign Ministry
Autonome(r): (masked) left-radical activist
BBB [zum Anfang]
BAfoeG (Bundesausbildungsfoerderungsgesetz): federal education/training assistance [act]
Bankrott, betruegerischer: fraudulent bankruptcy
Bargeld und angelegtes Kapital: currency in circulation and deposits
Bauernverband: farmers' association
Bauminister, -senator: Minister of Building and Construction
Bausparen: targeted saving for self-owned homes
Bauwirtschaft: construction and building industry
Bayern: Bavaria
BDI: siehe: Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie
Beamtenbund, Deutscher: national union of civil servants
Beamter: civil servant, government official
Beauftragter: commissioner, ombudsman/woman/person
Bedarfsgemeinschaft: resource sharing communities
Befangenheitsantrag stellen: to challenge judges for bias
Befehl (gerichtl.): writ
Begnadigung: release on ministerial/presidential licence
Behoerde: government authority
Beihilfe zu: aiding and abetting (to aid and abet)
Beirat (AG): Advisory Board
Bekennerschreiben: letter claiming responsibility
Beklagter, Angeklagter: defendant
Belastungszeuge: witness for the prosecution
Beratungsschein (bei Schwangerschaftsabbruechen): proof of mandatory counseling
Berufsgenossenschaft: employers' liability insurance association
Berufsgenossenschaft: workers compensation board
Besatzungsmacht: occupying power
Besatzungsstatut: occupation statute
Beschaffungskriminalitaet: procurement criminality
Besitzstaende: achieved assets, values
Besoldungsanpassungsgesetz: law on civil service wage reconciliation; law on public employees pay scale reconciliation
Betaeubungsmittelgesetz: narcotics law
Betriebspruefung: company audit
Betriebsrat: workers'/employees' representation [Erklaerung]
Betrug: fraud
Beugehaft: coercive detention
Bewaehrung: suspended sentence; on probation
bewaffnet ... (Verbrechen): armed ...
Bezirksverbaende: district society, organisation
Bezirksverbaende: district unions (Gewerkschaft)
Billig -arbeiter, -lohn: low-pay workforce, low-pay wage
BIP (Bruttoinlandsprodukt): GNP (gross national product)
bis (zeitl.): till/until (during the whole time), by (Frist)
Bischofskonferenz: conference of bishops
blauer Brief (EU): early warning
Blauhelm -soldat, -einsatz: UN soldier, UN mission
Bluter: haemophiliac
Blutkonserve: blood conserve, supply in blood bank, donated blood
Boden-Luft-Rakete: surface-to-air missile
Boerse ...: stock market was bullish/bearish, unchanged
Boerse schloss ...: stock market closed up/down ... points; ... in heavy/light trading
Boersenaufsichtsamt: Securities & Exchange Commission ?
Boersenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels: German book dealers and publishers assoc.
Branche, (z.B. Automobil-): (car) industry, trade
Brandanschlag: arson attack, fire bombing
Braunkohle: lignite
Brennelemente: nuclear fuel elements
Brennstaebe: nuclear fuel rods
Brief(kurs): selling rate
Briefbombe: letter bomb
Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP): gross national product (GNP)
BSP (Bruttosozialprodukt): GDP (gross domestic product)
Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen, B90/G: Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen
Buergerbegehren: popular initiative
Buergerentscheid: referendum
Buergermeister: (allg., Leiter der Stadtverwaltung) mayor, head of municipal administration; (Nds. und NRW, der i.A. ehrenamtliche Vorsitzende des Gemeinderates) head of municipal parliament; (HH und B, der Chef der Regierung (Senat)) head of federal state government
Buergerschaft: state parliament
Bummelstreik: go-slow
Bund der Steuerzahler: Bund der Steuerzahlerzahler (taxpayers' association)
Bund der Vertriebenen (BdV): Sudeten wartime expellees' association
Bund fuer Umwelt- und Naturschutz (BUND): BUND (environmentalist pressure group), Germany's Nature Protection Alliance
Bundes...: siehe auch unter dem Hauptwort
Bundesaerztekammer: Federal General Medical Council
Bundesamt fuer ...: Federal Department of ...
Bundesamt fuer Luftfahrt: siehe: Luftfahrtbundesamt
Bundesamt fuer Strahlenschutz,: Federal Department for Radiation Safety
Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz: Federal Department for the Tutelage of the Constitution (domestic Intelligence agency)
Bundesanstalt fuer Arbeit: Federal Labour Office
Bundesbahn AG, Deutsche: German Railways Corporation
Bundesbank: Germany's central bank
Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte: federal commissioner for data privacy
Bundesfinanzhof: Federal Fiscal Court
Bundesgerichtshof: Federal High Court
Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS): border guards
Bundesland: state
Bundesliga, 1./2.: Bundesliga, First/Second Division
Bundesministerium des Innern, BMI: Federal Ministry of the Interior
Bundesministerium fuer Arbeit und Sozialordnung, BMA: Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
Bundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung u. Technologie, BMBF: Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology
Bundesministerium fuer Ernährung, Landwirtschaft u. Forsten, BML: Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry
Bundesministerium fuer Familie, Senioren, Frauen u. Jugend, BMFSFJ: Federal Ministry of Family, Seniors, Women and Youth
Bundesministerium fuer Finanzen, BMF: Federal Ministry of Finance
Bundesministerium fuer Gesundheit, BMG: Federal Ministry of Health
Bundesministerium fuer Justiz, BMJ: Federal Ministry of Justice
Bundesministerium fuer Raumordnung, Bauwesen u. Staedtebau, BMBau: Federal Ministry of Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development
Bundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz u. Reaktorsicherheit, BMU: German Federal Environment Ministry
Bundesministerium fuer Verkehr, BMV: Federal Ministry of Transport
Bundesministerium fuer Verteidigung, BMVg: Federal Ministry of Defense
Bundesministerium fuer Wirtschaft, BMWi: Federal Ministry of Economics
Bundesministerium fuer Wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit u. Entwicklung, BMZ: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Bundesnachrichtendienst: German Foreign Intelligence Agency
Bundespraesident: German President
Bundesrat: Bundesrat, upper house of the parliament
Bundestag: Bundestag, lower house of the parliament
Bundestagsausschuss: Commission of the Bundestag / Bundestag Committee
Bundestagsausschuss fuer Auswertiges und Verteidigung: parliamentary commission for foreign affairs and defense
Bundestagsinnenausschuss: Committee for Interior Affairs
Bundesverband der Deutschen Arbeitgeber: Federal Alliance of German Employers
Bundesverband der deutschen Industrie: Federation of German Industry
Bundesverband der Mittelstaendischen Wirtschaft: Federation of the Mittelstand Economy
Bundesverband der Tierversuchsgegner: Federal Association of People Against Animal Experiments
Bundesverdienstkreuz: (State Honour)
Bundesverdienstkreuz, Grosses: Federal Germany's highest civilian Order of Merit, the "Grosses Bundesverdienstkreuz"
Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbaende (BDA): Federal Alliance of German Employers' Associations
Bundesversammlung: Presidential Election Council, Federal Convention [die Mitglieder des Bundestags und in gleicher Anzahl gewaehlte Vertreter der Landtage (meistens Buerger oder Persönlichkeiten des öffentlichen Lebens)]
Bundesversicherungsanstalt fuer Angestellte (BfA): BfA (Federal Pension Plan Agency for Employees)
Bundeswehr: Bundeswehr, armed forces
Bundeswehrbeauftragter: Commissioner/Parliamentary Ombudsman for the Armed Forces
Bundeswehreinsatz: engagement of the Bundeswehr
BVG (Bundesverfassungsgericht): Federal Administrative Court
CCC [zum Anfang]
CASTOR: cask for storage and transport of radioactive material
CDU, Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands: Christian-Democratic Union
CSU, Christlich Soziale Union (nur in Bayern): Christian-Social Union
DDD [zum Anfang]
DAG: siehe: Deutsche Angestelltengewerkschaft
Darlehen: mortgage, loan
Datenschutzbeauftragter: data privacy commissioner, commissioner for data privacy
DAX: DAX
DDR: GDR (German Democratic Republic)
Der Spiegel: the news magazine Der Spiegel
Deutsche Angestelltengewerkschaft (DAG): national union of employees
Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung: German Association of Mathematicians
Deutsche Postgewerkschaft (DPG): German Postal Union
Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB): national trade union federation, German federation of unions
Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag (DIHT): Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce [laut DIHT-Webseite]
Deutscher Staedte- und Gemeindebund: Council of German Districts
Deutscher Staedtetag: Council of German Cities
Devisen: foreign currency
Diaeten: parliamentary pay/remuneration/salary, emoluments
Dienst nach Vorschrift: work to rule
Diplomatischer Corps: diplomatic body (corps)
Direktmandat: direct vote
Diskontsatz: discount rate
Dorsch (Ostsee u. Jugendform) = Kabeljau: cod
Drehgestell (beim Zug): bogey
Dreikoenigstag: Epiphany
Drittes Reich: Third Reich
Druecker (Zeitschriftenwerber): pusher
Durchsuchungsbefehl: search warrant
EEE [zum Anfang]
Eckwert: cornerstone, base/key rate
Ehegattensplitting: joint tax declaration (for spouses)
Ehrenvorsitzender (Verb.): Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors
Eigenheim: owner-occupied house
Eigenheimzulage: subsidy to apply to the construction of a house
Eigenkapital: own/private capital, capital resources, capital, stock and reserve, equity
Eilentscheidung (jur.): urgency decision ?
Eilverfahren: expedited proceedings/trial/case
Eingreiftruppe, schnelle: rapid response force
Einheitsfonds: Unity Fund
einmotten: to mothball ("Ontario to scrap mothballed reactors" The Globe and Mail)
Einnahmeausfall: loss of income, loss of revenue
Einsatzbereitschaft (mil.): combat readiness
Einzeletat: budget position(s)
Eishockey: hockey
Elterngeld: parenting money
EMNID: polling research institute EMNID
Endlagerung: (nuclear) waste repository
Energiewirtschaft: energy sector
Entfuehrung (Flugzeug): hijacking
Entfuehrung (Person): kidnapping, hostage taking
entgleisen: derail
Entlastung (eines Amtsinhabers): discharge, approval
Entlastung (von Anschuldigungen): exoneration, to clear
Entscheidung: ruling, finding
Entsendegesetz (Bauarbeiter): law on payment of foreign workers seconded to German construction sites
Entsendegesetz (Beamte): law on secondment
Entsendegesetz (Soldaten): law on deployment
Entsendegesetz, Arbeitnehmer-: law on the posting of workers [a minimum wage law for the German construction business protecting native workers from low wage competition by posted workers from other EU countries]
Entsenderichtlinie: ?target rule?
Entsorgung: waste disposal
Erblastentilgungsfond: Debt Redemption Fund
Erlass (gerichtl.): writ
Erlass einer einstweiliger Verfuegung: to grant an injunction
Ermittlungsverfahren: preliminary investigations
Ernennungsurkunde: letter of appointment
erpressen: extort, blackmail, hold someone to ransom
Erpresser: extortionist/extortioner (nur BE), blackmailer
Erpressung (a): extortion (Androhung von Gewalt)
Erpressung (b): blackmail(ing) (Androhung von Skandal)
Ersatzkrankenkasse: substitute public health insurance/fund/scheme
Erststimme: candidate-vote, first-past-the-post vote
Ertragsanteil: [a calculated percentage of total retirement pay, at an average of around 32%, depending on several factors such as retirement age, total amount, any collateral income] a complex formula determines what portion, if any, of pension income may be taxed, and at what rate; in practice, the formula means that average pension recipients pay no tax on their pensions
Erziehungsgeld: child-care benefit
Erziehungsurlaub: child-care leave
Europaeischer Einigungsprozess: European unification process
Europäische Einigung: European unification
europäischer Integrationsprozess: process of European integration
Europaminister der Laender: state ministers for European concerns
Europarat: Council of Europe
Existenzminimum: official subsistence level
Expertengutachten: expert witness
FFF [zum Anfang]
fahrlaessig: by negligence
Familienlastenausgleich: incentives for young families ???
Familienminister: Minister for the Family
FDP, Freie Demokratische Partei: Liberal-Democratic Party
Fehlbelegungsabgabe: penalty for improper use of fixed-price housing
Feinstaub: fine particle matter
festnehmen, vorlaeufig: to take into custody, to hold
Feuerschutzabgabe: fire fighting levy
Finanzamt: revenue office
Finanzausschuss (Einnahmen): ways and means committee (USA)
Finanzbeamter: fiscal officer
Finanzgericht: Fiscal Court
Finanzminister, -ium: Finance Minister, Ministry of Finance
Finanzpolitik: fiscal policy
Flaechentarifvertrag: in collective agreements: Global awards, as opposed to localised awards or enterprise awards. They would cover all of Germany, regardless of 'poor' or 'rich' regions/businesses.
Fleischerhandwerk: butchery
Flensburger Punktedatei: traffic penalty register
Fluesterasfalt, Fluesterasphalt: whisper asphalt, porous asphalt, 'soundblocking' tarseal
Folgerezept: refill
Fraktion: parliamentary group, faction
Fraktionsvorsitzender: parliamentary party leader
Fraktionszwang: party discipline
Freiberufler: self-employed
freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordng.: free democratic order/society
freilaufend (Huehner): free range
freisprechen (jmd.): acquit, find s.o. not guilty
Freiwillige Feuerwehr: volunteer fire department
Fremdverschulden: third-party responsibility
Fruehrente: early retirement
Fuehrungsgremium: governing body
Fuenf Weise: s. Sachverstaendigenrat
Fundis (Fraktion der Gruenen): fundamentalists, hard-core, radical
Fussball: soccer
GGG [zum Anfang]
Ganztagsschule: full day school
Gastarbeiter: Gastarbeiter (foreign worker, guest worker)
Gauck-Behoerde: Authority overseeing the files of Stasi, the former East German State Security
Gefaengnisstrafe bekommen: the accused received prison sentences of six to 13 years
Gefluegelpest: pseudo fowl pest, poultry plague, avian influenza, bird flu, (Exotic) Newcastle Disease
gegen Unbekannt: versus persons unknown
Geiselnahme: taking of hostages, to take s.o. hostage
Geld(kurs): buying rate
Geldmengenziel: monetary target (ranges)
Geldmengenziel (M1): target (range) for narrow money (M1)
Geldmengenziel (M3): target (range) for broad money (M3)
Gemeinde: (local) community
Gemeinde (Kirchen-): congregation
Gemeinde (pol.): municipality
gemeinsamer (Mord etc.): joint (murder etc.)
Generalbevollmaechtigter (AG): General Manager
Generalmajor: general major
Generalsekretaer: secretary-general
Generalstaatsanwalt: Attorney-General, Chief State Prosecutor
geringfuegige Beschaeftigung: less-than-part-time jobs
Gesamtmetall: employers association for the steel and engineering industry
Gesamtverband des Deutschen Steinkohlebergbau: Federal Association of the German Coal Mining Industries
Geschaeftsfuehrender Gesellschafter (KG): Managing Partner
Geschaeftsfuehrender Partner (OHG): Managing Partner
geschaeftsfuehrender Praesident: caretaker/acting president
Geschaeftsfuehrer (Firma): General Manager[GmbH], Managing Director[Verb., GmbH]
Geschaeftsfuehrer (Partei): secretary-general
Gesellschafter: stockholder [GmbH], partner [OHG]
Gesellschafterversammlung(GmbH): stockholders' meeting
-gesetz (z.B. Einkommensteuer-): law
Gesetzgeber: the legislative, the lawmaker(s)
Gespraechsleitfaden: interview guide
gestehen: the accused pleaded guilty to 2nd degree murder
Gesundheitsminister: Minister of Health
Gewerbeertragssteuer: trade tax on profit
Gewerbekapitalsteuer: local trade tax on capital
Gewerbesteuer: trade tax
Gewerkschaft Bergbau: union for the mining industry
Gewerkschaft der Eisenbahnbeschaeftigten: union of railway employees
Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW): union for education and science
Gewerkschaft Handel-Banken-Versicherung (HBV): union for the trade, bank, and insurance industry
Gewerkschaft Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststaetten (NGG): Union for the food and restaurant sector
Gewerkschaft oeffentliche Dienste-Transport-Verkehr (oeTV): Union for the public service and transportation sector
Gewerkschaftsfunktionaer: union official
Gewerkschaftstag: labour union convention
Gewerkschaftsvertreter: union representative
GmbH: privately held corporation
Gorbatschow: Mikhail Gorbachev
Grosse Koalition: Grand Coalition
Grosse Strafkammer: first chamber of the regional court
Grosse Tarifkommission: high-ranking union-committee deciding on the collective bargaining strategy
Grosser Lauschangriff: great surveillance attack, grand bugging attack
Grossversuch: large-scale testing
Gruen-Alternative Liste (GAL): Green-Alternative Party
Grundgesetz: Grundgesetz (constitution), Basic Law
GUS (Gemeinschaft Unabhaengiger Staaten): CIS (Community of Independent States)
Gymnasium: upper secondary school, grammar school
HHH [zum Anfang]
Haestraeger: people in traditional carnival costumes
Haftbefehl: arrest warrant
Haftrichter: judge at committal hearing (?)
Halbschwergewicht: light-heavyweight
Handelsbilanz: trade balance
Handlungsbevollmaechtigter (AG): assistant manager
Handwerksverband: handicraft association, contractors association
Hauptangeklagter: principal defendant
Hauptausschuss (Verb.): executive committee
Hauptgeschaeftsfuehrer (Verb.): general executive manager
Hauptschule: standard secondary school
Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie: German building contractors' association
Hauptversammlung (AG): stockholders' meeting
Haushalt: budget
Haushaltsausschuss (Ausgaben): appropriations committee (USA)
Haushaltsloch: budget deficit
haushaltspolitischer Sprecher der XYZ-Fraktion: budgetary spokesperson for the XYZ faction
Hausverbot: restraining order
HBV: siehe: Gewerkschaft Handel-Banken-Versicherung
Hebesatz ([Grund]Steuer-): local [property] tax multiplier
Heer: ground troops
Hessen: Hesse
Hetzschrift, -kampagne: smear publication, smear campaign
Hinspiel (i.d. Bundesliga spielt jede Mannschaft 2x gegen eine andere Mannschaft): first leg (game)
Hochseefischerei: deep-sea fishery
Hockey: field hockey
Huehnerpest: siehe Geflügelpest
humanitaere Gruende, aus h. G.: (on) compassionate grounds
I I I [zum Anfang]
Ich-AG: Me Incorporated
Ifo Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung: Ifo Institute for Economic Research
IG Bau-Steine-Erden: construction industry union
IG Metall: union for metal, engineering and electronics
in Brand setzen: set on fire
Industrie- und Handelskammer: Chamber of Commerce
Innenminister: Minister of the Interior
innerdeutsche Grenze: German-German border
Institut fuer Ernaehrungsforschung: Institute for Nutritional Sciences
Intendant: director ?, president-elect
Internationale Schutztruppe (ISAF): International Security Assistance Force
Islamist: Islamic extremist, Islamist
JJJJ [zum Anfang]
Jahressteuergesetz: annual tax law
Judenverfolgung: persecution of the Jews (not: Jewish pers.)
Jugendschoeffengericht: jury juvenile court
Jugendstrafe: juvenile arrest, juvenile detention
juristisch zur Verantwortung ziehen: sue; hold accountable; take s.o. to court for s.th.
Justizminister: Minister of Justice
KKKK [zum Anfang]
Kabeljau = Dorsch (Ostsee u. Jugendform): cod
Kammergericht: higher court
Kammergericht (Berlin): Superior Court of Justice of Berlin
Kampfeinsatz: shoot-to-kill mission
Kanzler, Bundes-: Chancellor
Kanzleramt, Bundes-: Chancellor's Office
Kanzleramtsminister: Secretary of the Chancellor's Office
Kanzlermehrheit: the absolute majority of all members of the Bundestag
Kanzlerrunde: talks at the Chancellor's office
Kapitalsteuer: capital gains tax
Kapitalverkehrsbilanz: balance on capital account
Kartellamt: Anti-Trust Office
Kassenaerztliche Bundesvereinigung: National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians(Quelle: http://www.kbv.de/international/international100.htm)
Kassenarzt: physician registered with health insurance funds
Katholikentag: Catholic church congress, Catholic church convention
Kaution: bail
Kiew: Kiev
Kinderfreibetrag: child allowance
Kindergeld: child benefit
Kirchenasyl: asylum granted by church, church refuge/sanctuary
Kirchentag: church congress, church convention
Kirchentagspraesident: president of the (xxx) church convention
Klaeger (Zivilrecht): plaintiff, claimant
klagen: sue, file charges, lay charges
Klausurtagung: seclusion meeting, meeting behind closed doors
Koalitionsregierung: coalition government
Koeln: Cologne
Koerperverletzung (schwere): (grievous) bodily harm, physical injury
Kohlepfennig: energy tax (support of coal industry)
Kombilohn: combination wage (i.e. government-subsidized paycheck; workscheme where wages for unskilled labour are topped up by government)
Kommanditgesellschaft (KG): Limited Partnership
Kommanditist (KG): Limited Partner
Kommission (= Ausschuss): committee, but: Commission of the EU
Kommission (= Delegation): commission
Kommune: local council
Komplementaer (KG): General Partner
Konjunktur: business cycle
Kontrollkommission: control commission
Konzertierte Aktion: cooperation agreement between state, industry and unions)
Kooperationsrat: Council on Cooperation
Kosovo-Albaner: Kosovar Albanian
Krankenhausnotopfer: an additional emolument exacted from public health insurance members for hospital refurbishment)
Krankenkasse: A health insurance institution which collects contributions from insured individuals and employers and grants payments in the event of illness. At present there are almost 1,300 in existence, divided into statutory public, guild, seafarers' and company health insurance funds and mineworkers' and white-collar workers' health insurance funds (an approved alternative fund, i.e. "Ersatzkasse", see social security obligation ) and private health insurance funds. (http://www.eurofound.ie/emire/germany.html)
Krankenkassenbeitrag: health insurance contribution
Krawall: riot
Kreditabwicklungsfond: Credit Fund
Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau: Reconstruction Loan Corporation
Kreis (Land-): district, District of XY-town
Kriminalamt, Bundes-/Landes-: federal/state criminal police (agency)
Kronzeuge: crown witness
KSZE / OSZE: CSCE / OSCE
kuendigen (durch Arbeitgeber), Kuendigung: lay off (Kündigung: lay-off), dismiss, sack, fire, give the "pink slip"
Kultusministerium: Ministry of Culture/Cultural Issues
Kur: sanatorium/rehabilitation treatments
Kurzprogramm (Eiskunstlauf): short program(me)
LLLL [zum Anfang]
Ladenschlussgesetz: business hour law
Ladenschlusszeiten: business/shop/shopping/store/store closing/trading hours
Laenderausgleichsfond: the equalization-of-burdens fund
Laenderfinanzausgleich: fiscal equalisation, (federal) transfer payments, fiscal federalism
Laenderrat (B90/Gruene): high-ranking party committee
Landesgruppe (CSU): CSU members of parliament
Landesvorsitzender: chair of the [state] [party]
Landeswahlleiter: head of regional election office
Landgericht (Ober-): (Higher) Regional Court
Landkreis: district, District of XY-town
Landrat: District President
Landratsamt: district administration
Landsmannschaft, Schlesische: Silesian Traditional Association
Landtag: state assembly/parliament
Lauschangriff, Grosser: grand bugging attack, great surveillance attack
Lebenshaltungskosten: consumer price index
Lebenskultur: Lebenskultur (art of living)
Leihstimmenkampagne: giving the party-vote to a small party and the candidate-vote to the larger coalition partner
Leistungsbilanz: balance on current account
Leitzinsen: key short-term interest rate
Lesung: the bill has passed the 3rd reading
Linksruck: push to the left
Lohnfortzahlung: paid sick leave, sick pay
Lohnkostenniveau: level of labour cost
Lohnnebenkosten: indirect wage costs, fringe benefits, (benefit contributions paid by employers), wage fringes
Lombardsatz: lombard rate
Luftfahrtbundesamt / Bundesamt fuer Luftfahrt: Federal Department of Aviation
Luftwaffe: air force
MMM [zum Anfang]
Maennerriege: 'Old Boys'-network. Riege is a group of men doing athletics, together.
Magnetschwebebahn: high-speed magnetic levitation train
Mallorca: Majorca (Insel), Palma de Mallorca (Hauptstadt)
Marine: navy
Markterschliessung: entering (a) new market(s)
Masseneinkommen: mass income ?
Massenkarambolage, Massenunfall: pile-up accident
Mastschwein: hog (AE), pig, swine (BE)
Maul- und Klauenseuche: foot-and-mouth disease, hoof and mouth disease
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Menschenraub: abduction
Menschenrechtler: civil rights activist
Menschenrechtskonvention: Human Rights Convention
menschliches Versagen: human error
Milliarde: billion, bn
Mindestlohn: minimal living income / wage
Mindestreserve: minimum reserve ratio
Minensuchgeschwader: mine-detection squadron
Minister: Minister
Ministerialdirektor: Assistant secretary
Ministerialdirigent: Junior assistant secretary
Ministerialerlass: Ministerial order
Ministerialrat: Principal
Ministerium: Ministry
Ministerpraesident: State Premier
Ministerrat: Cabinet (Council)
Mitangeklagter: co-defendant
Mitbestimmung (Arbeiter-, betriebliche): worker participation in management
Mittaeter: accomplice
Mittellandkanal: (German) Midlands Channel
Mittelstand: middle class (foot note 3)
Mittelstandsvereinigung (Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsvereinigung der CDU/CSU): Small and Medium Entrepreneurs Association; eher wörtlich: Association representing the middle class
Mobilitaetszulage: travel allowance ?
Mord: murder
Mordverdacht: suspected for murder
Mutterschaftsurlaub: maternity leave
Mutterschutz: motherhood leave
NNN [zum Anfang]
Nachforderung: afterclaim, extra claim
Nachrichten der letzten site: News from the Far Site
Nachtragshaushalt: budget update
Nachwuchs: prospective/future scratch players
Nahost: Middle-East (and not "Near-East")
Nebenklaeger: third-party action
Neigetechnikzug (Pendolino): train with tilting technology
Neonazi: neonazi
Neuverschuldung: budget deficit, new debts
Niedersachsen: Lower Saxony
Niederungen (Wetterbericht): low-lying areas
Nobelpreistraeger: Nobel laureate
Noetigung: duress, coercion, intimidation
Nordrhein-Westfalen: North Rhine-Westphalia
Normenkontrollklage: to challenge a law in the Federal Constitutional Court, petition to the FCC to override a law because it is seen to violate personal rights
NPD, National-Demokratische Partei Deutschlands: [rechtsextreme Partei]
OOO [zum Anfang]
Oberbuergermeister: Mayor (kreisfreie Staedte in NRW u. Nds.)
Oberflaechenhaftung (Strasse): surface grip
Oberlandesgericht: Higher Regional Court
Obrigkeitshoerigkeit: authoritarian serfdom
oeffentlicher Dienst: Germany's public services (public sector)
oeffnungsklausel: escape clause
OHG: Partnership
Orden wider den tierischen Ernst: Medal against Deadly Seriousness
Organisation der Kriminalbeamten: organization of detective
Orkan: severe/violent/hurricane-force storm,hurricane
Ossie: Ossie
Ostermarsch: Easter march
Ostseerat: Baltic Sea Council
Ozonloch: hole in the ozone layer, ozone hole
Ozonverordnung: ozone threshold(?)
PPP [zum Anfang]
Paepstlicher Nuntius: papal delegate
Paketbombe: package bomb
Parteifuehrung: party leadership
Parteiordnungverfahren: internal proceedings (by the SPD, z.B.)
Parteipraesidium: party board/council
Parteiprogramm: party platform
Parteitag, Bundes-/Landes-: federal/state party conference
Patientenbeteiligung: patient participation in the cost of medicine
PDS, Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus: Party of Democratic Socialism (former communists)
PEN: International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists
Penner: bum, slacker, "you snooze - you loose", drifter; vagrant; hobo; tramp; derelict; straggler; (blighter), ausführlich
Pension: pension (of tenured government employees [Beamte], paid by the government in return for lower pay)
Persoenlich haftender Gesellschafter (KG): General Partner
Petitionsausschuss: parliamentary petitions committee
Pflegeversicherung: care insurance
Pille danach: morning-after contraception
PISA: Programme for International Student Assessment
Plaedoyer: final arguments, final address
ploetzlicher Kindstod: cot death, SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome)
Pokal der Pokalsieger (soccer): Cup Winners' Cup
Politbuero: politburo
Politikverdrossenheit: sulkiness about politics
Praeimplantationsdiagnostik (PID): preimplantation genetic testing
Praesident (Verb.): President
Praesidium (eines Verbandes): board of directors, executive board, steering committee
Praxisgebuehr: medical office fee, user fee
preisbereinigt: in real terms
Prionenerkrankungen: prion (proteinaceous infectious particles) diseases
Privatkundengeschaeft (Bank): private banking
Prokurist (AG) ;: authorized officer
QQQ [zum Anfang]
Quartalsgewinn: first/second/third/fourth quarter earnings
Quellensteuer: allg.: pay-as-you-go-tax; tax that is deducted at the source, i.e. tax on capital income is deducted by the bank
räuberisch: rapacious
räuberische Erpressung: rapacious extortion
RRR [zum Anfang]
Radlager (sg.): wheel bearings (pl.)
Radreifen (beim ICE): (wheel/steel) rims, double-reinforced metal tires, wheel hoops
Rand (N.N. sagte am Rande von Veranstaltung X in B., ...): In passing while attending the X event, N.N. said ...While in B. for the X. event, N. said in passing ...
Raps: Canola (tradename; rape variety with little erucic acid and glucosinolates), rape, rapeseed, oil-seed rape
Raub: robbery
Raumfahrtunternehmen: space mission / space enterprise
Realos (Fraktion der Gruenen): Realists, Moderates
Realschule: intermediate secondary school
Rechnungshof, Bundes-/Landes-: Fed./State Court of Auditors
-recht (z.B. Beamtendienst-): code
Rechtsanspruch: right
rechtsextrem: extrem rightist
Rechtsruck: push to the right
Rede halten: deliver a speech
Regierung: government
Regierungskoalition: government, governing coalition
Regierungskreise: government ranks
Regionalausschuss der EU: EU Committee of the Regions
Reichsbund: [a social organization]
Reichskristallnacht, Reichspogromnacht: Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass in 1938 when Nazi thugs launched the pogrom against the Jews [Washington Post]
Rente: pension (of workers and employees, paid by their contributions)
Rentenkassen: pension plan agencies ?
Rentenueberleitungsgesetz: pension transferal law
Rezession: recession, slowdown
Rheinland-Pfalz: Rhineland-Palatinate
Rinderpest: rinderpest, cattle-plague, serapis
Rinderwahnsinn (BSE): mad cow disease (BSE, bovine spongiform encephalitis)
Ring deutscher Makler: Association of German Real Estate Agents
Ringfahndung: cordon of police, cordon search
Risiko- und Beteiligungskapital: capital for equity and debt financing
Risikostrukturausgleich: balance payment, risk equity payment
Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF): Red Army Faction
Rote Karte (Fussball): red card, ejection from a game
Rueckmeldegebuehr: registration fee (at university for each term)
Rueckruf: recall: Car manufacturer BMW asks 75'000 owners to return their cars to BMW dealers for checking the seat heating
Rueckspiel (i.d. Bundesliga spielt jede Mannschaft 2x gegen eine andere Mannschaft): second leg (game)
Rundfunkstaatsvertrag: inter-state broadcasting treaty; regulations on public broadcasting
SSS [zum Anfang]
Sachsen: Saxony
Sachsen-Anhalt: Saxony-Anhalt
Sachverstaendigenrat (zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichenEntwicklung): German Council of Economic Experts (Quelle: www.sachverstaendigenrat-wirtschaft.de)
Sanierungskonzept: rehabilitation plan
Sarajewo: Sarajevo
Satzung (einer Partei), Bundes-: federal statutes/charter
Schaden: x DM Schaden: x DM worth of damage
Schadenfreude: Schadenfreude, malicious joy, gloating
Scheinselbstaendigkeit: nominally independent contract work
Schicksalsgemeinschaft: the common fate of [the EU member countries], they shared a common fate
Schiessbefehl: shoot-to-kill command/order
Schlussplaidoyers: (make the) final/closing arguments
Schlussstand (Boerse): at closing
Schnellboot: motor torpedo-boat (MTB)
schoenrechnen (Finanzhaushalt): creative accounting
Schreckschusspistole: starter pistol
Schulamt, Ober-: State Board of Education, (higher) school authority/board,
Schwarzarbeit: moonlighting
Schweigeminute: moment of silence
Schwein(Mast-): hog (AE), pig, swine (BE)
schwer (Verbrechen): serious ???
SED, Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands: Socialist Unity Party of Germany, formerly ruling party of East Germany
Seezunge (Fischart): sole
Selbstaendiger: self-employed
Senat: senate
Senator: Minister
Siegermaechte: Allies
SMS (Short Messaging Service): SMS, text messaging, or texting (short texts one can send by mobile phone)
Solarsiedlung: solar-powered housing project
Solidarzuschlag: solidarity surcharge, extra 7.5% on income tax
Sondermuell (-deponie): hazardous/special waste (depot)
Sorgfaltspflichtverletzung: negligence
Sozialabbau: welfare cuts
Sozialabbau: social slimming
Sozialamt: (social) welfare office
Sozialausschuss (CDU, ...): committee for social matters
Sozialdemokratie: S. (workers' movement for social and democratic rights)
Sozialgericht, Bundes-/Landes-: Federal/Regional Social Court
Sozialgesetzbuch: social code
Sozialhilfe: social welfare assistance
Sozialministerium, Bundes-: federal welfare ministry
Sozialwohnung: housing at controlled prices
Sparkasse: savings bank
Sparpaket: austerity/savings package
SPD, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands: Social-Democratic Party of Germany, Social-Democrats
Spitzenkandidat: leading candidate, top candidate
Sprecher/in, Partei: (party) spokes(wo)man, -person
Sprengstoffanschlag: bombing
Springreiten: show jumping
Staatenbund: confederation
Staatsakt: state act/ceremony
Staatsaktion: political event
Staatsangehoeriger: citizen
Staatsanleihe: public (govt) loan, public (govt) bond
Staatsanwalt, -schaft: public prosecutor, p p's office
Staatsarchiv: state archives
Staatsbegraebnis: state funeral
Staatsbuergerschaft (doppelte): citizenship (dual)
Staatsdienst: public service
Staatsgebiet: territory of state
Staatsgewalt: executive power
Staatshoheit: sovereignty
Staatskosten (auf S.): public expense (at p. e.)
Staatsminister (Bay.): Minister of State
Staatsminister (Bund): government secretary
Staatsquote: Die Staatsquote misst das Verhältnis von Staatsausgaben zum Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP); government expenditure as a percentage of GIP
Staatssekretaer: Secretary of State, Permanent Under-Secretary?
Staatssicherheitsdienst, Stasi: GDR State Security, Stasi
Staatsstreich: coup d'etat
Stabilitaetspakt: stabilizing measures, Stability Pact (EU)
Stadtdirektor (NRW, Nds.): mayor, head of municipal administration
Stadtverordnetenversammlung: city assembly, city parliament
Stammzellen, embryonale: embryonic stem cells
Standort Deutschland: S.D. (Germany as an industrial location, Germany as base for economic activity)
Standortdebatte: debate about Germany's attractiveness as base for economic activity
Stasi: Stasi (East Germany's infamous secret police)
Statistisches Bundesamt: Federal Department of Statistics
Steinkohle: coal (ohne Zusatz)
steinreich: filthy rich
Sterbehilfe: assisted dying
Steuerfahndung: Tax Investigation Office
Steuerfreibetrag: personal allowance, tax threshold
Steuergelder: tax revenue
Steuergewerkschaft: ???
Steuerhinterziehung: tax fraud
Steuersplitting: Steuerspl. (married couples' beneficial tax rate)
Steuerverkuerzung: tax evasion
Stilllegung: shutdown
Strafbefehl (in Hoehe von 100 Euro): order (to pay 100 euro penalty)
Strafe: sentence, punishment
Strafrecht: criminal code, penal code
Streiflicht der SZ: "Spotlight" from SZ
Studentenwerk: (Federal) Office for student affairs
Stuetzungskaeufe (bei Devisen): support purchases (of currency by central bank)
Sturm (schwer): storm (heavy)
Sturmtief: cyclone, depression
Suchbefehl: search warrant
TTT [zum Anfang]
Taeter: perpetrator
Taeter-Opfer-Ausgleich: victim-offender mediation
Tag der deutschen Einheit: German Unity Day, Day of German Unity
Tarifautonomie: private sector collective bargaining
Tarifbezirk: bargaining district
Tarifkommission, s.a. 'Grosse Tarifkommission': joint working party on pay
Tarifpolitik: wage policy
Tarifverhandlungen, -runde: collective bargaining
Tarifvertrag: collective wage agreement
Tarnkappenbomber: stealth bomber
Tateinheit (in T. mit): in conjunction with
Technisches Hilfswerk, THW: Technical Assistance Organization
Teilwertabschreibung: write-off to the lower going-concern value, a write-off of expenses for tax purposes
Teilzeitrente: part-time retirement/pension
Terror-Analyse-Zentrum: Information and Analysis Centre "International Terrorism" (s. Nachrichten vom 14.12.2004)
Teuerungsrate: inflation rate
Therapieplatz: therapy position
Thueringen: Thuringia
Tieffluege: low-altitude aircraft flights
Tiermehl: meat and bone meal, ground-up animal by-products
Tierversuchsgegner: animal (rights) activist
Todesfolge (mit T.): causing death, leading to death
Totschlag: manslaughter
Transferleistungen: balance payments/transfers among the federal states
Treuhandanstalt: THA (privatization and restructuring agency)
Treuhandkonto: accounts ... that cannot be tapped by ...
Treuhandkonto: trust fund, trustee account, escrow account
Triebkopf (ICE): power car
Trinkwass-Entnahmestelle: outlet for drinking water
Tschechische Republik: Czech Republic
Tschernobyl: Chernobyl
UUU [zum Anfang]
ueberhangmandat: overhang mandate (official term in NZ!)
Umlaufrendite: average daily return
Umsatzsteuer: VAT (value added tax)
Umweltbundesamt: Federal Department for the Environment
Umweltminister: Minister of the Environment, Environment Minister
UN Fluechtlingskommissariat: Office of the UN High Commissioner f. Refugees
Union (CDU/CSU): Union, CDU/CSU
Unrechtstaten (DDR-): GDR misdeeds
Untergangsstimmung: doom and gloom
Unterschlagung: embezzlement, fraudulent conversion
Untersuchungsausschuss: committee of inquiry, ad-hoc committee
Untersuchungshaft: being held during investigation, invest. custody
Unterwasserkamera: submersible camera
Untreue: embezzlement, fraudulent conversion
Urabstimmung,-wahl: strike ballot, vote of the members (allg.)
Urlaubsgeld: leave benefit
Urteil anfechten: to challenge a court ruling
Urteilsbegruendung: sentencing arguments
Urteilsbekanntgabe: (the Federal Court will hand down a ruling today)
V-Leute: s. Verbindungsmann
V-Mann: s. Verbindungsmann
VVV [zum Anfang]
Verband (Verb.): association
Verbindungsmann: (Geheimdienst, Verfassungsschutz:) informer, informant
Verbrauchernachfrage: private consumption
Verbrechen, organisiertes: organized crime
Verdienstkreuz ...: siehe: Bundesverdienstkreuz
Verfassung: constitution
Verfassungsbeschwerde: constitutional appeal/complaint
verfassungsgemaess: constitutional
Verfassungsgericht, (Bundes-): Federal Constitutional Court
verfassungskonform: constitutional
Verfassungsschutz: German Domestic Intelligence Agency
verfassungswidrig: unconstitutional
Verfolgung (Juden-): persecution (of the Jews)
Verfuegung, einstweilige: temporary injunction
Vergewaltigung in der Ehe: marital rape
Vergleich (Bankrott): composition, receivership, ajudication
Vergleich beantragen: to go int receivership
Vergleich, aussergerichtl.: (out of court) settlement/agreement, arbitration
Verhandlung (allg.): proceedings
Verhandlung (Strafverfahren): trial
Verkehrsminister, -senator: Minister of Transportation
Verlaengerung (nach V.): (Fussball) (in) overtime
Vermittlungsausschuss: Mediation Committee of B.tag and Bundesrat
Vermoegensbildung: subsidy to enable people with income below a certain limit to form assets, nest egg building subsidy
Vermoegensbildungsgesetz: law on a government subsidy for lower income people to help them build up financial assets)
Vermoegenszuwachs: capital gains
Verordnung: by-law, decree
Versicherungsfremdleistungen: extraneous (social insurance) benefits
versuchter (Mord etc.): attempted
Verteidigungsminister, -ium: Ministry of Defense, Defense Minister
Vertrauensabstimmung: vote of confidence
Veruntreuung: embezzlement, fraudulent conversion
verurteilen (fig.): condemn
verurteilen (juristisch): convict, find guilty, condemn, sentence to
Verwaltungsgericht, Ober-, Bundes-: Administrative Court, Higher, Federal
Verwaltungsgerichtshof: Higher Administrative Court
Verwaltungsratsvorsitzender (AG): chairman of the administrative board
Vogelgrippe: bird flu, avian flu, fowl pest
Volksbegehren: popular initiative
Volksentscheid: referendum
vor Gericht stehen: to stand trial
voreingenommen: biased
vorgeladen werden: to be subpoenaed
vorhalten, jmd. etw. v.: reproach someone for something
Vorladung: (writ of) summons, pl.: summonses
Vorladung: subpoena
Vormundschaftsgericht: guardianship court, family court, Court of Family Relations (US), Court of Protection (UK)
vorpreschen: rush ahead, jump (the) start
Vorruhestand: early retirement
Vorsatz: wilfully, with malice aforethought
Vorschaltgesetz: interim law
Vorsitzender (Partei): president
Vorsitzender (Verb.): Chairman of the Board of Directors
Vorsitzender der Geschaeftsfuehrung (GmbH): Chief Executive Officer (CEO) / President
Vorstand (Verb.): Board of Directors / Executive Board
Vorstandsmitglied (AG): Member of the Executive Board
Vorstandssprecher (AG): Chairman of the Executive Board
Vorstandsvorsitzender (AG): President and Chief Executive Officer
Vorverhandlung: preliminary hearing
WWW [zum Anfang]
Waehrungsunion, Europaeische: European Monetary Union (EMU)
Waffenbeschaffung: arms provision
Wahlalternative Arbeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit: Voting Alternative Labour and Social Justice
Wahlbeteiligung: voter turn-out
Wahlkampf: election campaign
Wahlkreis: constituency
Wahlleiter: returning officer, head of the election office
Wahlprogramm: party platform, election campaign
Waldsterben: forest decline
Warnstreik: limited/symbolic/token/warning strike
Wasserpfennig: tax on water use
Wasserwacht: 'Bay Watch' would be the choice of Pamela Anderson or David Hasselhoff fans - better use beach patrols or Water Search and Rescue people. It's not the Water Police, though they usually give a hand.
Wasserwirtschaft: water (supply and) management, water resource management
Wechselkursmechanismus, Europaeischer: European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM)
Wehrbeauftragter, Bundes-: Commissioner/ Parliamentary Ombudsman for the Armed Forces
Weiche: points (pl.)
Wende: upturn, turn-around; re-unification
Werbungskosten (als Steuerabzug): employment expenses (tax deductions for e.e.)
Wertpapierpensionsgeschaeft: securities bought from pension funds, security investments of pension funds Footnote
Wessie: Wessie
Wetteramt: meteorological institute
Wiederaufbereitungsanlage: reconditioning facility
Wirtschaftminister: Minister of Economics
Wirtschaftswachstum: economic growth
Wohlstandsmuell: affluence waste; (Personen:) welfare trash
Wohncontainer: emergency/container housing, housing container
Wohnungsbauminister: Housing Minister
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Zahlungsbilanz: balance-of-payment
Zentralbankgeldmenge: central bank money stock (similar to M3)
Zentralbankrat: Central Bank Council
Zentrale fuer die Bekaempfung des Unlauteren Wettbewerbs: Institute Against Unfair Competition
Zentralkomittee der Katholiken: German Catholic Committee
Zentralrat der Juden: German Jewish Committee
Zentralrat der Muslime: German Muslim Committee
Zentralverband des deutschen Handwerks: Central Association of German Trade
Zeugnisverweigerungsrecht: provisions for those bound by oaths of confidentiality; immunity from witness; [constitutional] right to refuse testimony
Zinsabschlagsteuer: provisional tax (payment) (on income from interest); This will be an estimate, and you can claim against it if you paid too much.; => Quellensteuer; Footnote
Zivildienst: (mandatory/compulsory) social service (instead of military service) (for conscientious objectors)
zu Lasten von: at the expense of
Zumutbarkeit, Zumutbarkeitsregel: reasonableness, suitability, acceptability, acceptable-employment regulations, appropriateness
Zusatzaltersversorgung: additional retirement pension/insurance ???
Zweitstimme: party-vote, party-list vote