Talk:Regierungsbezirk

message: I  was wondering. is it my imagination, or is there a relationship between the Regierungsbezirk and the former Principalities, Baronies,Dutchies, etc.?
CORNELIUSSEON 23:42, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: not really  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.49.219.143 (talk) 07:25, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relationship between Regierungsbezirke and former Principalities etc. 

message: Is it that clever to use the German plural form? Kindergarten has made it into the English language with a standard English plural: -s. Therefor (IMHO) the plural of Regierungsbezirk should be Regierungsbezirks. --32X 00:49, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The plural of Kindergarten is Kindergärten. And the plural of Regierungsbezirk is Regierungsbezirke. -- 62.156.40.152 (talk) 22:33, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

text: IMHO using English plural forms of foreign words is a bit intellectually lazy - I prefer to show the respect to the people of the countries of origin to learn their plurals, and their pronunciation.  We Americans can try to be a little more cosmopolitan than we tend to be because of our geographical isolation.  user:Drbillellis 12:51, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:    (In light of the typographical laziness [/sarcasm] of starting at the margin when previous contributors have indented under what they are commenting on, i have taken the unusual liberty of inferring the dr's intent, and doing my best to represent its relationship to its immediate environment accurately via indentation.)--Jerzy•t 20:31, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

text: Hear, Hear! "Kindergarten" (despite my own sloppy English "Kindergarden" in contrast to my well-drilled German "Kindergarten") has apparently indeed "made it". "Regierungsbezirk" is (exceptionally for a Yank) part of my passive (yet not my active) vocab (i would probably drop the internal S in impromptu speech or unprompted online typing), but appears in English only in rare formal uses, such as WP, and (unless you do things like, let's say, intentionally drop the internal S -- as a gesture toward twd making its use practical for Yanks) you should not take the liberty of substituting final S for the orthodox E. "Verbum sap" (or more correctly "Verbum sap.") is somewhere in between.   But the discussion has been conducted in a vacuum, ignoring the  fact that this talk page is about the free encyclopedia, not our respective ambitions for shaping the English tongue. Why do we title the article "Regierungsbezirk", rather than "Modern German governmental unit intermediate between city and state"? Because there's no need for a separate English word for it;  coining an English word for its plural is (1) as silly as it is arrogant and (2) misrepresents the status of Bezirk (let alone Regierungsbezirk), which could start appearing in English dictionaries probably only well after cows start flying.--Jerzy•t 20:31, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  plural form 

message: I would not say that they are "roughly equivalent to a province" in other nations.  A province or state in most other Western nations is a second-tier level of government.  These Regierungsbezirk look to be third-tier (i.e. below both federal and state government), and would make them more equivalent to counties in other nations.  Germany counties, which are districts, are more the equivalent of towns/townships.  Someone may want to correct this. --Criticalthinker (talk) 11:47, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: At present, Wikipedia translates both Kreis and Bezirk as district which I think should be changed. -- 62.156.40.152 (talk) 22:35, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Equivalent

message: The problem is that this article assumes that Regierungsbezirke are an independent tier of government (beside federal and state level) - however this is not correct. Regierungsbezirk is a solely administrative segmentation of the state's territory. 
Therefore they directly belong to the respective state government and the Bezirksregierung (the authority that oversees the Regierungsbezirk) is a immediate state authority, directly subordinate to the state government, and with rather administrative than governmental duties (a so called "Landesmittelbehörde" meaning intermediate state authority, whereas the superiour state authoritys are the state ministries). 
One can say that the Bezirksregierung is the field office of the state government responsible for the respective administrative Bezirk (in public they actually call themselves this way). 
--89.245.62.27 (talk) 01:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not correct. Districts have an elected government of their own (although elections are held on the same day as state elections) and they are Gebietskörperschaften of their own. It is totally correct to regard them as an independent tier of government, even though the districts don't play an important role in politics because their government has only little power. -- 62.156.40.152 (talk) 22:31, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of the Regierungsbezirks