Fuhrer
German supreme commander
Führer is German for leader or guide.
The word is now inseparable from Adolf Hitler, who styled himself Führer of Nazi Germany.
In English, it designates Hitler specifically or characterizes someone as an authoritarian dictator: The office manager acts like a little führer.
The spelling Fuhrer appears in English contexts without the umlaut.
Nazi Germany's totalitarian leader
- Third ReichHitler's totalitarian German state
- dictatorRuler with total control
- NaziGerman fascist party member
- swastikaCross with angled arms
Wehrmacht · Reich · Nuremberg · fascism · totalitarianism · propaganda · Gestapo · concentration camps
One who guides others
- guideLeader or instruction book
- commanderPerson with authority over others
- chiefTop-ranking leader
- driverVehicle operator
conductor · director · captain · boss · head · tour guide · mountain guide · train operator
Hitler
Nazi Germany's totalitarian leader
- Third ReichHitler's totalitarian German state
- dictatorRuler with total control
- NaziGerman fascist party member
swastika · Wehrmacht · Reich · Nuremberg · fascism · totalitarianism · propaganda · Gestapo · concentration camps · Mein Kampf
leader
One who guides others
driver · conductor · director · captain · boss · head · tour guide · mountain guide · train operator · chauffeur
- World War IIAllies, Nazi, Hitler, Axis, Third Reich
- rulersmonarch, Caesar, ruler, sovereign, emperor
- German HistoryNazi, Prussia, Saxony, Reichstag, Napoleonic Wars
- Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazi, Nazis, Nazi Party
- autocratsautocrat, despot, dictator, tyrant, strongman
- Axis PowersGermany, Italy, Japan, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan
Fuhrerdemocrat
Advocate for popular rule
elected leader · president · constitutional monarch · prime minister · public servant
FuhrerMahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela · liberator · emancipator · Martin Luther King Jr. · freedom fighter
Fuhrerservant leader
Leader who serves first
public servant · representative · steward · caretaker · delegate