GDR

See also: gdr

English

Noun

GDR (plural GDRs)

1. (banking) Initialism of Global Depositary Receipt.

Proper noun

GDR

2. (historical) Initialism of German Democratic Republic (“former state, 1949–1990”).

   Synonyms: DDR, East Germany

   Coordinate terms: FRG, Federal Republic of Germany, West Germany

   • 2017 May, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine‎^[1]:

     Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR). […] Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not to mention ambivalent role of Stalinized Communism, behind it.

Translations

German Democratic Republic

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 民主德國 / 民主德国 (zh) (Mínzhǔdéguó)

• Czech: NDR (cs) f
• Danish: DDR (da)
• Dutch: DDR (nl) f
• Estonian: Saksa DV
• Finnish: DDR (fi)
• French: RDA (fr) f
• German: DDR (de) f
• Hungarian: NDK (hu)
• Indonesian: RDJ
• Malay: RDJ
• Polish: NRD (pl) n
• Portuguese: RDA f
• Romanian: RDG, Republica Democrată Germană f
• Russian: ГДР (ru) f (GDR)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: NDR f

• Spanish: RDA f
• Swedish: DDR (sv), (dated) TDR (sv)
• Turkish: ADC (tr), DAC (tr)
• Ukrainian: НДР (uk) f (NDR)

Anagrams

• R'dg

Italian

Noun

GDR

1. (gaming) initialism of gioco di ruolo (“role-playing game”)