Beutmeister
Under a Beutmeister (or prey master) is meant by the lansquenets those of an equitable division of the common spoils was responsible.
The booty master was chosen by the community .
Adelung wrote in 1793: In the Lünerburg salt works, to come to the Beut means to follow the Frisch, to come to the division even now, and Beutmeister is a person there who distributes the profit.
literature
- Beutmeister . In: Robert R. Anderson, Ulrich Goebel, Oskar Reichmann (Eds.): Early New High German Dictionary . Volume 3: mercy - obedience . de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2002, ISBN 3-11-014887-0 , Sp. 2202.