Reichskanzler

From German Reichskanzler.

Full definition of Reichskanzler

(plural Reichskanzlers or Reichskanzler)

The German Chancellor or head of state from 1871 to 1945; specifically (from 1933 to 1945), Adolf Hitler as head of the Third Reich. from 19th c.

2001, Anthea Bell, translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz, Penguin 2011, p. 236:Maximilian, in spite of the cheerful disposition which he shared with AgÃ¡ta, had been convinced â€¦ that the parvenus who had come to power in Germany â€¦ had abandoned themselves from the first to a blind lust for conquest and destruction, taking its cue from the magic word thousand which the Reichskanzler, as we could all hear on the wireless, repeated constantly in his speeches. ----