Concrete head

This article deals with the curse word. For the negative price of the Brandenburg Association of the Disabled, see Betonkopf (price) .

Concrete head is a slang term for a stubborn person who insistently insists on his views. It is used in particular for people who (allegedly) defend backward political and social ideas.

Said views are so firmly entrenched in the head of the person concerned, as if they were embedded in concrete. In contrast to straw head , wooden head or hollow head , the term concrete head does not contain any judgment about the (formal) intelligence of what is so called.

Concept history

The term found widespread use at the time of reunification in the GDR around 1989/90. At that time, unswerving and reform-hostile functionaries of the SED government in the GDR and in other real socialist states of the Eastern Bloc were initially referred to in non-public language and later also publicly as concrete heads .

See also

Wiktionary: Betonkopf  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Herberg, Doris Steffens, Elke Tellenbach: Keywords of the turning point. Word book on public language use 1989/90. De Gruyter, Berlin 1997, p. 326 f.