Bundesgeschäftsführer

English translation: national secretary/executive director

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German term or phrase:Bundesgeschäftsführer
English translation:national secretary/executive director
Entered by: YorickJenkins

20:19 Sep 17, 2008
German to English translations [PRO]
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German term or phrase: Bundesgeschäftsführer
Bundesgeschäftsführer des RCDS

This is a title which I have to translate

(RCDS is the CDU Students' Association) -is there an agreed English translation for this?
"Federal Leader" is the obvious translation but it sounds so like a.. translation.. All suggestions welcome.
Yorick Jenkins
YorickJenkins
Local time: 01:12
national secretary
Explanation:
Yet another possibility.

The head of a nationwide political organization like this is often called a national secretary.


Selected response from:

Paul Cohen
Greenland
Local time: 22:12
Grading comment
This is a close call (Kim Metzger's suggestion also possible I think) but having three endorsements swung the balance-also I feel that national secretary is more appropriate for party political positions and executive director for non party-political ones
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +3national secretary
Paul Cohen
4federal manager of affairs
Ellen Kraus
4general manager
Stephan Elkins
3federal whip
Andrea Winzer
3executive director
Kim Metzger


  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
federal whip


Explanation:
http://www.dict.cc/?s=whip

federal whip = Bundesgeschäftsführer (einer Partei)

Bin aber nicht sicher, ob das auch für diese Organisation passt.

Andrea Winzer
United States
Local time: 19:12
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
executive director


Explanation:
He was Bundesgeschäftsführer (executive director) of the SPD from 1995 to 1998, and after holding briefly the post of Minister of Transportation and Construction in the first cabinet of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, he was the first to hold the new post of SPD General Secretary from 1999 to 2002, and thereafter became leader of the SPD fraction in the Bundestag.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Müntefering


Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 17:12
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 252
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
federal manager of affairs


Explanation:

just one more possibility

Ellen Kraus
Austria
Local time: 01:12
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 15
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53 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
national secretary


Explanation:
Yet another possibility.

The head of a nationwide political organization like this is often called a national secretary.




Paul Cohen
Greenland
Local time: 22:12
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 47
Grading comment
This is a close call (Kim Metzger's suggestion also possible I think) but having three endorsements swung the balance-also I feel that national secretary is more appropriate for party political positions and executive director for non party-political ones

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator): seems most suitable in this context
8 hrs

agree  Nandini Vivek: Could also use the term "General secretary" - in this context
12 hrs

agree  David Moore (X)
20 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
general manager


Explanation:
Whether "general manager" is actually the best possible translation for "Bundesgeschäftsführer" may be open to debate. But it seems to be the official option of choice on the CDU's website - RCDS being the party's youth organization (see link below).


    Reference: http://www.cdu.de/en/3440_3472.htm
Stephan Elkins
United States
Local time: 01:12
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 24
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