# der Polizeidirektor

der Polizeidirektor is a German noun meaning “police chief”. Forms: des Polizeidirektors, die Polizeidirektoren.

## Forms

- Genitive: des Polizeidirektors
- Plural: die Polizeidirektoren

## Meanings

1. _Germany · historical_ police chief (historical name for the head of the security apparatus, especially of a city or district)
   - Ein Augsburger Polizeidirektor erwarb sich diesen traurigen Ruhm und gab so das Vorbild neudeutscher Behörden im Reiche des Herrn Severing. — An Augsburg police chief won this unenviable fame on that occasion, and set the example that was later to be copied by neo-German officials of Herr Severing’s regime.
2. _Germany_ police director (police officer at the higher level of responsibility in the higher service)

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