Junker

It evolved to a general denotation of a young or lesser noble, sometimes politically insignificant, understood as "country squire".[2] Martin Luther disguised himself as "Junker Jörg" at the Wartburg; he would later mock King Henry VIII of England as "Juncker Heintz".The title today survives in its traditional meaning in the Netherlands and Belgium in the Dutch form Jonkheer.[6] After World War II, the junker class, which had formed much of the officer corps of the Wehrmacht and whose prominent member President and former General Paul von Hindenburg had appointed Hitler chancellor in 1933, was often blamed for Prussian militarism, the rise of the Nazis and World War II.It was also used in the title Kammerjunker within the royal household, the equivalent of the French valet de chambre, a position usually given to young noble men in the service of a princely rank person at the court.
The renaissance humanist Nikolaus Meyer zum Pfeil , of the Swiss Meyer zum Pfeil family, held the honorific Junker
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