Bailiff
From the 16th to the 19th century, Poor Guard was the title of the officials responsible for checking beggars and the poor . Other names were also Bettelvogt , Prachervogt (particularly stubborn beggars were referred to as "Pracher") or Gassenvogt .
The poor bailiff was a lower official employed by the authorities who mainly had control functions, but no helping function. Poor bailiffs checked compliance with the strict requirements of the Alms Act . Beggars and the poor who were fit for work were tested more strictly than widows, cripples or orphans, for example .
In a police ordinance of 1693 published by Her Royal Majesty of Sweden in the Duchies of Bremen and Verden , it is said that in order to combat the beggars, “... also certain poor and preachers should be appointed to look after the poor, especially the Frembden and keep the same from people's doors after the gift has been received ... "
Jacobine Kunhardt from Lübeck noted the following lines in the book Lübeck's Vorstädte seventy years ago (Lübeck 1898): “The staff of the institution ( St. Annenkloster ) also included the begging and Splendid servants. These attacked fencing [= begging] craft boys and male and female vagabonds ... and arrested them, the female to the Marktgrevensaal in old Schrangen, the male to the stables . "
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Individual evidence
- ↑ your royal Majest. Policey, pond, wood and yacht regulations for Sweden in the Duchies of Bremen and Verden: published on the most gracious royal orders for constant inevitable observation. Stade, 1693 ( online ).
- ↑ http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/MEC/ratzeburg/deutsch/berufe/p.htm