Landreiter (police)
The Landreiter were in Germany in the 17th to 19th centuries in some areas of rule a mounted police as a country gendarmerie .
Examples
So were the Mecklenburg-Strelitzsche Districts Hussars soldiers in the country's police service of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz as militarily organized country gendarmerie on horseback. According to the Duke in 1798, the hussars should be distributed evenly across the entire country. 13 mounted men, including a sergeant , were to "ride through their district regardless of the weather, Sundays and holidays, and track down the beggars and vagabondes, for the purpose also to visit the jugs (inns) ..." That was the beginning of a state police .
Land riders were also used as the monastery's own police force in larger monasteries. B. in the monastery Dobbertin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
In Schwerin - Schelfstadt a street is called Landreiterstraße .
See also: Landreiter , administrator of a land riding.
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Steinmann: The establishment of the Mecklenburg-Strelitzschen (district) hussar corps in 1798 and the first years of its existence (until 1805). In: Carolinum. Historical-literary magazine. Volume 42, Göttingen 1978, No. 79, p. 10.
- ↑ Christine Witzke: From District Hussars to Gendarmes . In: Frank Erstling, Frank Saß, Eerhard Schulze, Harald Witzke: Mecklenburg-Strelitz - Contributions to the history of a region , Verlag Druckerei Steffen, 2001, ISBN 3-9805343-7-5