receiver
noun · Zwangsverwalter
Zwangsverwalter for the receiver appointed over real property, § 152 ZVG, but the English receiver more broadly has no German equivalent, the private receiver of a floating-charge holder cannot exist where there is no floating charge. Empfänger is the machine’s howler, that is a recipient, not an officeholder, so a receiver over the assets becomes someone who received them.
Which translation, when
Why
The receiver is an office English law hands to a creditor or the court to take control of assets, and German has no single equivalent because it distributes the function differently. Over real property there is a close match, der Zwangsverwalter, appointed in the Zwangsverwaltung, § 152 ZVG, who manages the land and channels its income to the enforcing creditor, a court-appointed officer rather than the creditor’s own agent. Over a company the English administrative or debenture receiver has no German twin at all, the private appointment of a receiver by a floating-charge holder cannot exist where there is no floating charge, so enforcement against specific assets runs through the Gerichtsvollzieher or the Zwangsverwalter and a distressed business through a court-supervised office, never a creditor’s private receiver. The vocabulary trap is loud, receiver reads to the engine as Empfänger, a recipient, so a receiver appointed over the assets becomes a recipient of the assets, and the office dissolves into a mailing address. And the receiver in estate or family contexts again maps to specific German offices, never to a general Receiver, so the word is reconstructed by function every time.
Typical mistakes
- Empfänger is a recipient, not an officeholder, a receiver appointed over property is a Zwangsverwalter, § 152 ZVG, so the machine’s Empfänger turns an office into an address.
- The company receiver has no German twin, a debenture holder’s receiver presupposes a floating charge German property law does not run, so the office reconstructs into a court-appointed one, not a creditor’s private appointee.
- Zwangsverwaltung is real property only, § 152 ZVG, so using Zwangsverwalter for a receiver over a whole business overstates the office’s reach.
What matters
Security-enforcement letters meet the gap: a receiver over a mortgaged property is a Zwangsverwalter appointed by the court, § 152 ZVG, while a receiver over a whole company has no German equivalent, since the floating charge that would appoint one does not exist. The notice appointing a Receiver over the group has named an office German law does not create.
What the machine misses
Receiver arrives as Empfänger in machine output more often than not, a recipient where German means an officeholder, so a receiver appointed over the assets becomes someone who received them. The deeper gap survives even a corrected Verwalter, the English company receiver presupposes a floating charge German law does not have, so no single German office answers, and the translated appointment either mails the assets away or invents a Receiver the law never provided.
Examples
| receiver over the property | der Zwangsverwalter |
| to appoint a receiver | einen Zwangsverwalter bestellen |
| receivership | die Zwangsverwaltung |
| the receiver’s income | die Einkünfte der Zwangsverwaltung |