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Burger is short for Hamburger or Hamburg Steak a patty made of ground beef.
Hamburg, I think, means town like a burgh, an autonomous municipal corporation. so a bürgermeister is the chairman of the town council. A mayor.
~~Bürgerkrieg~~ Bürgerkrieg is a town conflict. A war between towns.
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Burg in modern German means castle, but as part of city names I think your etymology sounds about right. Bürger, on the other hand, means citizen. So the Bürgermeister is chief citizen, and Bürgerkrieg literally is citizen war. A civil war.
the duality of the bürger
Kreig ≠ Krieg
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