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Junker

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Junker

Member of the landed aristocracy in Prussia; favoured by Frederick the Great and Bismarck, they controlled land, industry, trade, and the army, and exhibited privilege and arrogance. From the 15th century until the 1930s they were the source of most of the Prussian civil service and officer corps.



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Our young man was a stiff conservative, a Junker of Junkers; he thought modern democracy a temporary phase and expected to find many arguments against it in the great Republic.
Pandora by James, Henry View in context
But the Baron and Baroness are members of an older generation, as well as Prussian Junkers and landowners.
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