Beutmeister

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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.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Adelung-1793/A/Beute+(1),+die