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The various meanings of Jäger / '''Jaeger''' / '''Jager''' include:

  • '' Jäger '' is a German military term for Light Infantry . It is often rendered as ''Jägers'' when referring to the élite troops of Prussia, e.g. the ''Potsdam Jägers''.





  • Jager is sometimes used as a short form for Jägermeister liqueur.


  • Jagertee is a drink made by mixing rum into black tea.





  • Gustav Jäger (1832-1917) was a German naturalist, physician and hygienist.




  • Jager is also a rare Male first name.


  • Jager is a dutch word and last name, which means Hunter .


  • Jäger is, ironically, the family name of SS-Standartenfuhrer Jäger , who during 1941 commanded one of the Einsatzgruppen that hand-slaughtered Jews in Eastern Europe and Soviet countries into mass graves (the Jager Report of 1 December 1941 states that 137,346 Jews had been eliminated in Lithuania).