Greetings August

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Grüßaugust (also greeting August , greeting uncle or Grüßonkel ) is a casually dismissive or jocular term for a desk clerk at a hotel or a restaurant, and for a person who is a representative office clothed, but no powers associated with. The term was already part of the colloquial vocabulary that Heinz Küpper had been collecting since the 1930s and published in the dictionary of German colloquial language (1955–1970).

Originally, the term is a term for receptionists , here the form welcome August or welcome greetings is also common. The designation assumes that the office exercised by the so titled person has no other function than that of greeting and representing, so it is actually superfluous. By linking the criticized activity with a name, negative emotions are also transported.

In Germany, the word is often used in conjunction with the Office of the German Federal President and the activity of mayors and district heads used. The office of Federal President is compared with the function of a Greetings August because the few constitutionally provided tasks from Art. 59 and Art. 60 GG could lead to the conclusion and predominantly representative tasks are to be performed. In the Principality of Liechtenstein , there are repeated discussions about constitutional reforms . Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein said, like his father, Prince Hans-Adam II. , That he did not want to be demoted to “Greetings August”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Brückner: Image Thinking. Human and magic or misunderstandings of modernity . Waxmann Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8309-7939-5 , p. 174.
  2. ↑ Entry Grüßaugust at Duden online . Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Hans Wellmann : Language of the Present, Volume 32, Part 2: German word formation, the noun. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1975. p. 364 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ Thomas Klug: Nationaler Grüß-August? Germany and the Office of the Federal President Broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur on May 18, 2009. Accessed on March 21, 2012.
  5. ↑ Gerd Appenzeller: The next President: Germany no longer needs a top August Greetings Published on February 18, 2012 in the Tagesspiegel . Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  6. ↑ Not just a Greetings August. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 15, 2006, p. 2.
  7. ↑ Nina Wodicka: Dove for 111 days Mayor: More than just the "Greetings August"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Published on October 4, 2010 in the Goslarschen Zeitung . Retrieved March 21, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.goslarsche.de  
  8. ↑ Timm Kern: Why are mayors voted out ?: A study from Baden-Württemberg over the period from 1973 to 2003, Kohlhammer 2008, p. 50 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  9. ↑ Marcus Schug: Greetings August. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 23, 2011, p. 43.
  10. ↑ Monika Schmidt: "Nur noch der Grüßaugust" Published on March 26, 2010. Accessed on March 21, 2012.
  11. ↑ People like me . Der Spiegel 32/1996 of August 5, 1996, p. 40.
  12. ↑ "Grüss-August" or absolute monarch ?, Neue Zurcher Zeitung of 9 August of 2002.
  13. ^ Zoff in the dwarf state of Liechtenstein: Citizens want to withdraw Hereditary Prince Alois power, Focus Online from February 13, 2012.

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