Headbutt (corporal punishment)
A head butt , also often referred to as a cat's head , is a blow with the closed fist on the side or back of the head, whereby contact is preferably made with the knuckles. In the economic encyclopedia by Johann Georg Krünitz from 1858 it says about the head nut: “In the low speech types, a figurative designation of a bump on the head. It hits the head, kicks or knocks. "
The head butt played a certain role as a corporal punishment in school for a long time . (In the 18th century, according to a questionable, but often repeated story, the Swabian schoolmaster Johann Jakob Häuberle is said to have distributed no less than 1,115,800 head-nuts during his 51-year service, which is his most frequent punishment, just before his 911,527 blows with the stick was.) Today this "educational measure" is forbidden in Germany according to § 1631 Abs. 2 BGB (see right of punishment ). This blow with the knuckles on the forehead or the back of the head was mentioned in literature as a cat's head in Kurt Tucholsky's short story "Where do the holes in cheese come from -?" And in Karl May's autobiography (quote: And there were moments when I was really convinced to have received all these blows, blows, blows and cats' heads only for the benefit and rescue of the King of Saxony and his ministry! )
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- ↑ Economic encyclopedia or general system of the state, city, house and agriculture (electronic full text version ) accessed on May 15, 2014 at kruenitz1.uni-trier.de
- ↑ JF Kneule: On the application of punishments in education. Jenisch & Stage, 1871, p. 15 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ Chapter III: No youth retrieved from karl-may-gesellschaft.de on May 15, 2014