Fire chief (Landsknechtheer)
A fire chief was an officer in the regimental staff of the Landsknecht army . He had the task, together with his firemen in enemy territory, to advertise and collect the arson , that is, to call for funds under threat of burning down enemy goods or, if such funds were not available, to burn down the localities concerned.
literature
- Friedrich Blau: The German Landsknechte - A cultural image. CA Starke Verlag, Görlitz 1882. ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ). Reprint, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-88851-032-5 .
Web links
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