Talk:Inspector General of the Bundeswehr

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[edit] Wrong translation of "Generalinspekteur"

It's difficult to find an authorised translation for "Generalinspekteur der Bundeswehr" (or GenInspBw). You find "Chief of the Defence Staff", to which either "Bundeswehr" or "German Federal Armed Forces" are being added. That would be the most common, I suppose, as they're all "CHODs" when they meet at international conferences. You also find "Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr", which is the preferred term at the Federal Office for Linguistics and Terminology and all that (Bundessprachenamt), but the GenInspBw himself seems to like CHOD better - that's what it says on his business card, anyway. NATO [1] even lists him as "Chief of the General Staff, Federal Armed Forces of Germany" [2], but they also have the CHOD as his current position a little further down on that page. So, for all practical purposes this entry should be changed to CHOD with a reference to the Bundeswehr rather than the Federal Armed Forces (there's actually a ministerial decree against translating the term "Bundeswehr" at all). Long story short, one thing is absolutely certain: "Inspector General" is definitely wrong. By the way, I believe that's a term used only for the top internal anti-fraud auditors in the (US) Departments of Justice, HHS, Defence and so on. --193.17.232.2 (talk) 12:55, 6 February 2008 (UTC)