Originally Posted by Mittelwaechter (Post 2413508)

Please provide a link to Collins with this translation.


A "Turm" is a tower. The conning (steering/commanding) tower is the part of the U-Boot, where the commanding officer directs the U-Boot.

In German it's simply called "Turm" - without any further concretization.

A ship has a conning bridge, in German the official term is "Kommandobruecke" - command bridge - but more than often only referred to as "Bruecke".

Originally Posted by Mittelwaechter (Post 2413705)

Strange...

I did some research for you, in old German language, German poets language, military language, sports language and English/German translations for troop and Turm - and there is absolutely no reference to "a troop of horsemen" connected with "Turm".

You may find expressions like "the impressive horseman on his huge black horse was standing tall as a tower in front of me..." - but I have no idea, how Collins comes up with their explanation.

I dare to claim they are wrong.
There may be some misinterpretation or bad link in the data base.


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Ah, I guess I can explain it:

"Ein Reitersturm" would be a troop of horsemen storming something, maybe a hill.
The English expert for Collins' German translations has got something wrong here.

Reiter = horseman/men (no difference for plural in German)
Sturm = storm

Reiters may be a misinterpreted plural, or the genitive construction "des Reiters Turm" - wich means 'the horseman's tower' - his tower.

ReiterSturm is not ReitersTurm!

Damn am I good! :03:


I'd like to vote, if I want the British still with us in the EU. Would be only fair.

Originally Posted by Mittelwaechter (Post 2413769)

My pleasure!

You were with the 7th Armoured Brigade?

Don't know much about Lower Saxony, but there is a huge military training area used by NATO.