Debaucheur

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Debaucheurs were called professional recruits in the military jargon of the 18th century who - at least in the Prussian army - recruited soldiers from foreign armies for their own army. Other meanings were "disorderly person, revelers, prasser, voluptuous" and "seducer, molester, pregnant".

This recruiting of soldiers from other armies was quite a common practice at the time. The fact that the men targeted had to be induced to desertion that could be prosecuted was accepted with approval .

See also

literature

  • Sr. kk Majesty Franz des Zweyten: Laws and ordinances for the Austrian, Bohemian and Galician hereditary lands. Vienna 1816, p. 140 ff. "Against false recruits and seducers" ( online preview )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Debauche. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 4, Leipzig 1906, p. 559 (on: zeno.org)
  2. ↑ Jacob Heinrich Kaltschmidt: Complete root and synonym dictionary of the German language from all its dialects and with all foreign words . 3. Edition. C. H. Beck, Nördlingen 1851, p. 158 ( limited preview in Google Book search).