Field captain
The captain was in the days of mercenaries , the commander of a Fähnlein .
For the commander of a regiment , who initially led a pennon himself, the designation Obristfeldhauptmann was created as the highest of the field captains in the regiment. Linguistically, the name was then shortened to " Obrist ". (In a similar way, the General emerged from the " Generalobrist ".)
Field captain also referred to the supreme commander of the armies. In the Habsburg Monarchy , the term referred to the general of the infantry .
Georg von Frundsberg , but later also Tilly and Wallenstein , were often called field captains by their contemporaries.
In Rome of the Middle Ages there were captains, called Capitani, see also Captain General .
Individual evidence
- ↑ General. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 5 : Gefoppe – Drifts - (IV, 1st section, part 2). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1897 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ^ Field captain . In: Universal Lexicon of the Present and Past . 4., reworked. and greatly increased edition, Volume 6: Europa – Gascogne , self-published, Altenburg 1858, p. 171 .
- ↑ Field captain, the. In: Johann Christoph Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect , Volume 2. Leipzig 1796, p. 95 ( online ).