Why is it der Dresdner?

Dresdner ends in -er, and most nouns ending in -er are masculine: in a German dictionary, 86% of them take der.

All nouns ending in -er
Sense 1
der

Meaning

[1] residents of Dresden, someone who comes from Dresden

[1] Bewohner von Dresden, jemand der aus Dresden stammt

Examples

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Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ der Dresdner die Dresdner
Genitiv des Dresdners der Dresdner
Dativ dem Dresdner den Dresdnern
Akkusativ den Dresdner die Dresdner

Pronunciation

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