Comment by coldtea

(a) Herr Doktor = the professor (the academic, the PhD guy, the big fish in a goverment organization, the one with the most credentials)

(b) "Herr Doktor is always right" - a central tenet of German society (or basically, organization politics) according to the author.

(c) Such a central tenet that it should have been on Moses tablets as the 11th commandment, but Moses run out of space.

(d) Benevolent as they are, however, the Doktors, forgave Moses for that oversight.