Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Vorstand
English translation:
Member of the Managing Board
Added to glossary by
Alison Schwitzgebel
Apr 5, 2005 07:37
19 yrs ago
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Vorstand
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Der Satz lautet: für den Vorstand, Dr. X
Soll wohl sowas heißen, wie "in Vertretung". Es handelt sich um eine gemeinnützige Organisation.
Soll wohl sowas heißen, wie "in Vertretung". Es handelt sich um eine gemeinnützige Organisation.
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Alison Schwitzgebel
France
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Member of the Managing Board
This ought to be in the glossaries.
HTH
Alison
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As a rule, all members of the managing board are authorized to represent the company.
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A CEO means Chief Executive Officer, and is the guy who heads Managing Board. There is also the CFO (Chief Financial Officer - in charge of finance), CIO (Chief Information Officer), CTO (Chief Technology Officer), etc. As such you simply can\'t have an entire board made up of nothing but CEOs.
The Chairman is another term used to refer to the guy (or woman) in charge of the board. The other members of the board are, well, just \"members\"...
HTH
Alison
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As a rule, all members of the managing board are authorized to represent the company.
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Note added at 1 hr 1 min (2005-04-05 08:39:27 GMT)
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A CEO means Chief Executive Officer, and is the guy who heads Managing Board. There is also the CFO (Chief Financial Officer - in charge of finance), CIO (Chief Information Officer), CTO (Chief Technology Officer), etc. As such you simply can\'t have an entire board made up of nothing but CEOs.
The Chairman is another term used to refer to the guy (or woman) in charge of the board. The other members of the board are, well, just \"members\"...
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silvia glatzhofer
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TransWolf
: Who said anything about a board made up of CEOs? // I wasn't being indiscrimate at all. I know for a fact that the term "Vorstand" can refer to the whole board, the chairman or a particular member and I have given two dictionary references to prove it.
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Well, if you indiscriminately call all the members of the board CEOs, that suggests that the entire board is made up of CEOs - or is my logic a bit fuzzy this morning?
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Tatjana Dujmic
: without more context this seems to be the most uncontroversial and neutral suggestion
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
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Board
IMHO
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Alison Schwitzgebel
: Could be used to translate "Vorstand" referring to a group of people, but not for a single member of the board.
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Elizabeth Niklewska
: Alison is right
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CEO
Vorstand can also mean just the boss
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Or just chairman
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Check the PONS dictionary and also der Kleine Eichborn - Vorstand can indeed be the director or just a board member. I\'m sure with the context BL will be able to work that out.
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Or just chairman
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Check the PONS dictionary and also der Kleine Eichborn - Vorstand can indeed be the director or just a board member. I\'m sure with the context BL will be able to work that out.
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Alison Schwitzgebel
: That would be Vorstandsvorsitzender, but here just a member is being refered to (it's not clear if he's the Vorsitzender or not) // but you can't have an entire board made up of CEOs :-?
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See my addition. There are a whole load of CEOs who should be nailed together on a board!
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Holger Thomas
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Spokesman of the board
or spokesman of the managing board or speaker of the board.
Das ist, was ich unter leo.org finde, wenn ich davon ausgehe, dass er ein offizieller Vertreter, und berechtigt ist, offizielle Daten zu verkünden.
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PS: Habe Vorstandssprecher eingegeben...
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So he might be the \"representative of the board\".
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You should decide that from the context of the surrounding text...
Das ist, was ich unter leo.org finde, wenn ich davon ausgehe, dass er ein offizieller Vertreter, und berechtigt ist, offizielle Daten zu verkünden.
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PS: Habe Vorstandssprecher eingegeben...
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So he might be the \"representative of the board\".
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You should decide that from the context of the surrounding text...
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BrigitteHilgner
: Given the information provided, this is the expression I would opt for, too.
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mustafaer
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Alison Schwitzgebel
: Dann würde er aber sicherlich "Vorstandssprecher" in dem Ausgangstext heißen - oder? // See my answer: all board members are authorized to represent the board (and the company)
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What about "representative of the board" then?
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sonja29 (X)
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Elizabeth Niklewska
United Kingdom
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Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English, Polish to English
management board representative
This is a safe translation, as it does not indicate if this is the Chairman or a Member of the Board, which we do not know in this case.
"Management Board" would be used more for this type of organisation
"Board of Directors" more for a commercial company
"Management Board" would be used more for this type of organisation
"Board of Directors" more for a commercial company
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on behalf of the Board of Directors
or just "on behalf of the Board"
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