The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freiherr \Frei"herr`\, n.; pl. Freiherrn. [G., lit., free lord.] In Germany and Austria, a baron.
Wikipedia
Freiherr (; male, abbreviated as Frhr.), Freifrau (; his wife, abbreviated as Frfr., literally "free lord" or "free lady") and Freiin (; his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire, and in its various successor states, including Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, etc. Traditionally it denotes the second lowest titled rank within the nobility, above Ritter ( knight) and Edler (nobility without a specific title) and below Graf ( count, earl) and Herzog (duke). The title superseded the earlier medieval form, Edelherr.
It corresponds to baron in rank; a Freiherr is sometimes also referred to as " Baron" ; he is always addressed as "Herr Baron" or (more familiarly) "Baron". If he belongs to the Uradel, he enjoys the predicate High Born; otherwise, he is High-Well Born together with all proper nobility.
Usage examples of "freiherr".
Two SS officers, Oberfuhrer Freiherr Manfred von Deitzberg, Himmler's adjutant, and von Deitzberg's deputy, Sturmbannfiihrer Erich Raschner, appeared ten minutes after Himmler left.
Twenty-four yearold Major Freiherr Hans-Peter von Wachtstein was lying naked in his bed, on his back, arms and legs spread, breathing softly, sound asleep.
Major Freiherr Hans-Peter von Wachtstein, now wearing a shirt and trousers, knocked at the bathroom door.
ONE Estancia Santo Catalina Near Pila, Buenos Aires Province 1355 1 May 1943 Before landing, Major Freiherr Hans-Peter von Wachtstein made a low pass over the landing strip to make sure one or more five-hundred-kilo cows were not happily munching away on the runway.
Major Freiherr Hans-Peter von Wacht-stein had not only received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross from the hands of Adolf Hitler himself, but, as a result of his service with the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War, he spoke Spanish fluently.
Cletus Frade, himself no stranger to honor (though the sense of formal chivalry that Major Freiherr Hans-Peter von Wachtstein had sucked in with his mother's milk was a little amusing to Frade), sought Peter out and announced that he was in his debt for his life.
Major Freiherr Hans-Peter von Wachtstein, who was at the gazebo to make his manners to his hostess for her weekend hospitality, smiled.
Major Freiherr Hans-Peter von Wachtstein (whom von Lutzenberger often thought could have been a model for an SS recruiting poster) gave a crisp Nazi salute, his right arm fully extended.
Giinther's worship had been bad enough when he been Griiner's driver, but it was worse now that Griiner had nobly given his life for the Fatherland (which Gunther had never seen) and the Herr Major Freiherr was acting as Military Attache.
Major Freiherr Hans-Peter von Wachtstein turned the nose of the Fieseler slightly, to point toward a rise in the coastline that he suspected was the old-fort-on-the-hill overlooking the harbor.
He had taken it from the pilot of the B-26, he said, and thought Herr Freiherr Wachtstein would like to have it.
Oh, you 're really an officer and a gentleman, Major Freiherr Hans-Peter van Wachtstein!
You may consider, Hen- Major Freiherr von Wachtstein, that we are now dealing with one another officially.
When Clete opened it, Major Freiherr Hans-Peter von Wachtstein was standing there.
Judging by his face, Clete sensed that Major Freiherr Hans-Peter von Wachtstein did not understand the humor.