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Originally Posted by AlexBell
The first word is Commerzienräte as in 'Oh, I could have spat at them: this crowd of paunchy Commerzienräte'. Hans von Bülow is bitterly complaining of the poor applause given at one of his concerts. What is he calling the people in the audience?
Also, should this word start with a K, in today's German? Would it have started with a K in 1939?
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It starts with K in today's German and I found it with a K in the 1910 edition of the
Muret-Sanders German-English dictionary.
I.e., it's safe to assume that it'd have been written with a K in 1939. Of course by then the honorary title
Kommerzienrat had fallen out of use.
BTW, the Muret-Sanders dictionary defines
Kommerzienrat as being roughly equivalent to
Councillor of Commerce. IMHO, a better definition might be
Captain of Industry.