Baas (profession)
A Baas (also Bas ) is a Low German expression for intermediary, principal and master, which is still in use in Dutch today. It is used in the seaman's and shanty language for individual seamans' professions. The word got to America by sea, where it eventually became boss.
A Heuerbaas was an employment agency who, commissioned by the captain, signed on the crew for a ship for a fee. For the sailor, who was often dependent on him, he was considered the prototype of a usurer and deceiver: "Vampire haybase with all its parasitic appendages of sleeping bases". The hay basin was legally abolished at the beginning of the 20th century. Gorch Fock provides a literary description of a Heuerbaas in his stories After the Storm .
The abolition of the Heuerbaasen was a central demand in the Hamburg dockworkers strike in 1896/97 .
The sleeping baas (also Pennebaas ) provided sleeping places on land. This was often also a haymaker at the same time. A ship's carpenter is called Zimmerbaas (also Timmerbaas).
The Baas is also known in the Rhineland , especially on the Lower Rhine . The Liewwerbaas is known there as the master supplier in the publishing industry . In the traditional breweries on the Lower Rhine, the Baas oversees the bar, the Zappes and the Köbesse , or designates the host or the master brewer himself. The chairman of the Düsseldorfer Jonges is also called Baas.
literature
- Andrea Kiendl, Paul Nagel: "Is there a chance?": The job placement service for seafarers in and around Bremerhaven . In: German Shipping Archive . tape 17 , 1994, ISBN 3-8225-0333-9 , pp. 215-238 .
Web links
- Baaß in the Ripoarian Wikipedia
Individual evidence
- ↑ ddb.de (PDF)
- ^ Wilhelm Böhmert: The situation of the seamen in the Weser area. In: Writings of the Verein für Socialpolitik. Vol. II: The situation of workers employed in shipping. Leipzig 1903, pp. 339/340.
- ^ Rolf Geffken : Jammer and Wind: an alternative history of the German shipping industry . P. 28 Hamburg 1985