Knot (craftsman)

What are there, knots are there? ( Philipp von Foltz , 1829)

As nodes were craftsmen in the old Stettin and Konigsberg called.

In the Low German language , Genote was the name for comrade . The word appeared in soldier language in 1772 . For Christian Wilhelm Kindleben (1781) it is a student scolding for craftspeople and non-students. Baltic Germans used the word for members of the lower classes. With the initial G, Gnote was in use until around 1862. At the Albertus University in Königsberg , members of student associations called an "uneducated guy" a knot .

In the corporate state , the boy also felt himself to be a member of a class . His boyhood honor distinguished him from the Philistine and from the "knot".

literature

• Friedrich Kluge : Etymological dictionary of the German language .
• Robert Paschke : Student History Lexicon . GDS archive for university and student history. SH-Verlag 199. ISBN 3-89498-072-9

Web links

Wiktionary: Comrade  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ R. Paschke, 1999
2. ^ Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51 and the history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. (1970–1985), Vol. 1, p. 367. Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-028704-6