Häuptling

Etymology
From, probably via. . The umlaut is probably due to the northern origin of the word and derives from the earlier Central German variant, though it might also be due to analogy with other words in. The word was first adopted in the sense of "patriarch, family leader", but was transferred and soon restricted to the ethnological sense of "chief" in the 19th century (as a loose equivalent of the English word).

Noun

 * 1) chief leader or co-leader of a tribe
 * 2)  high member of the Frisian nobility
 * 3)  leader of some other kind
 * 4)  patriarch leader of a family