Peterwagen

German thumb|de ein Peterwagen|upright=1.15 Etymology A term arising in the Nachkriegszeit. Probably by the chosen call name de Peter Wagen, being motivated by the de en patrol car 1 – since radio calls were used for communication between police stations and police cars in Hamburg from 1946, first present in the radio cars of the British military government. In the German Democratic Republic and successor lands it is called by a different radio call name de Toniwagen. In the 1950s–1970s one used the term de Ottowagen in de Verwaltungsbezirk Oldenburg Oldenburg. A similar term for a police car is de grüne Minna, de Grüne Minna, which was already used in the 19th century for horse-driven paddy wagons. Pronunciation de /ˈpeːtɐˌvaːɡn̩/ de De-Peterwagen.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de De-Peterwagen2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun m de informal Hamburg patrol car de Silberfische in meinem Bett Außen Top Hits, innen Geschmack 1996 Fettes Brot Steig ich umweltbewußt um auf mein Fahrrad / Die Entscheidung stellt sich sehr bald als grober Fehler raus / Denn zwei Straßen später bremste mich ein Peterwagen aus Declension m Further reading 2004 Polizeihistorische Sammlung Paul Peterwagen http://polizeihistorischesammlung-paul.de/wissenswertes/peterwagen.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20260519042103/https://www.polizeihistorischesammlung-paul.de/wissenswertes/peterwagen.htm 19 May 2026