bundesbevollmächtigter für Berlin

English translation: Federal commissioner for Berlin

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German term or phrase:	bundesbevollmächtigter für Berlin
English translation:	Federal commissioner for Berlin
Entered by:	Alan Campbell

09:51 Jun 26, 2006

German to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Government / Politics

German term or phrase: bundesbevollmächtigter für Berlin

This is one of Egon Bahr's two roles from 1972–1974 (the other was Bundesminister für besondere Aufgaben, which I've translated as Minister for Special Affairs).

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Local time: 02:11

Federal commissioner for Berlin

Explanation:
I always translated this term like this.

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Edith Rommelfangen
Germany
Local time: 03:11

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Federal commissioner for Berlin

Edith Rommelfangen

3 +2

Federal plenipotentiary for Berlin

Kim Metzger

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peer agreement (net): +2

Federal commissioner for Berlin

Explanation:
I always translated this term like this.

Edith Rommelfangen
Germany
Local time: 03:11
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Many thanks

13 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

Federal plenipotentiary for Berlin

Explanation:
Egon Bahr:
Born 1922; Journalist; 1960-66 director of the Press and Information bureau of the Land Berlin; 1967-69, Ministerial director in the Foreign Office; Federal plenipotentiary for Berlin and Federal Minister for Special Issues (1972); 1974-76 Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation; 1972-90 SPD delegate in the German Bundestag; 1977-81, Managing director of the SPD.

http://www.willy-brandt.org/english/biographie/bahr.html
Born 1922; Journalist; 1960-66 director of the Press and Information bureau of the Land Berlin; 1967-69, Ministerial director in the Foreign Office; Federal plenipotentiary for Berlin and Federal Minister for Special Issues (1972); 1974-76 Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation; 1972-90 SPD delegate in the German Bundestag; 1977-81, Managing director of the SPD.
[The Salomon Neumann Medal Award to the German Federal Government Plenipotentiary for the Disabled, Karl Hermann Haack]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&d...

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Note added at 16 mins (2006-06-26 10:08:27 GMT)
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Muret-Sanders gives minister plenipotentiary for bevollmächtigter Minister

Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 19:11
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 252

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