A driver

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The driver , also called top driver or follower , was a supervisory officer of the mining authority . The driver was a practical mountain official and was one of the leather mountain officials. He drove to all mines in his area of ​​activity and checked their condition on site. As a rule, the driver also supervised the mountain jury .

General and hierarchy

Some mountain districts were so large or extensive that the mountain master could not carry out his official duties in a way that would have been necessary. In particular, it was often not possible for the miner to visit the mines personally. For this reason, additional mining officials were created at the affected mining authorities to carry out these inspections . Each driver was responsible for a mountain area. But it also happened that one driver was responsible for several mountain areas. There were also mountain districts in which several mountain jury members were active, the oldest of which was appointed as head entry driver. Those jurors were then riders only by title. The hierarchy between entry, bidder and jury was handled differently in the countries. There were countries in which the rider stood above the mountain jury in the hierarchy. But there were also countries in which the top entry driver was called a descendant. In other countries, the descendant was a middle mountain officer who ranked between the Steiger and the jury. Due to this hierarchical structure, a subsequent driver supervised several Steiger. Several descendants were subordinate to a mountain jury and a senior jury supervised several mountain jury members.

Duties and powers

The driver's tasks were very extensive and varied depending on the mountain area. In some mountain areas, he had the task of driving all the mines regularly and reporting any defects he discovered to the mining office. As a rule, he visited the mines for which he was responsible once a week. The duration of the visit was at his discretion. The driver also determined the time of day at which he drove at his own discretion. In his recorded tracks he checked whether the mines on the layers with too many climbers, tusks , Mountain servants or pit boys were occupied. Furthermore, he checked whether the work on the respective mines was also being carried out properly in terms of mining. It also had to be checked whether some of the tusks could be used elsewhere so that the respective mine could extract more ore. The driver also had the task of checking the mine safety. So he checked the proper installation of the pit room . The driver had the authority to check the mountain jury, in particular whether they carried out their control duties properly. But there were also mountain areas where the driver took over the duties of a mountain jury. For this he had to go to free fallen mines Retract , perforated bricks set or hired house to negotiate.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Tilo Cramm, Joachim Huske: Miners' language in the Ruhr area. 5th revised and redesigned edition, Regio-Verlag, Werne 2002, ISBN 3-929158-14-0 .
  2. ^ A b Carl Friedrich Richter: Latest mountain and hut lexicon. First volume, Kleefeldsche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1805.
  3. ↑ Christoph Herttwig: New and perfect mountain book. Consists of a very large number of rare Berghandeln and mining customs, but oddly more than 200. Bergurtheln and Farewells not yet edited and revealed, relocated by Johann Christoph Zimmermann, Dresden and Leipzig 1710.
  4. ^ Carl Hartmann: Concise dictionary of mineralogy, mining, metallurgy and salt works of mineralogy along with the French synonymy and a French register . First section A to K, printed and published by Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Ilmenau 1825.
  5. ↑ Explanation of all made-up words and idioms in mines and huts = work according to alphabetical order in two parts . With a short preface, in Commission bey CG Fleckeisen, Helmstedt 1802.
  6. ^ A b Heinrich Veith: German mountain dictionary with evidence . Published by Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Breslau 1871.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g Swen Rinmann: General mining dictionary . Zweyter Part, contains report to F, Fr. Chr. W. Vogel, Leipzig 1808, pp. 445-446.
  8. ↑ a b Johann Christoph Stößel (Hrsg.): Mining dictionary. Chemnitz 1778.
  9. ^ A b c d e Johann Samuel Schröter: Mineral and mining dictionary on frames, words and things from mineralogy and mining science. Second volume, from B to Eisen, by Barrentrapp and Wenner, Frankfurt am Main 1789.
  10. ↑ a b c Illustration and description of all of the smelting smelter officials and servants according to their usual rank and order in the appropriate smelter habit. To be found by Christoph Weigeln, Nürnberg 1721, pp. 6-7.