Landschreiber

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Landschreiber is an office designation from the early modern period. It was in parts of the Holy Roman Empire and is still widespread in Switzerland today . The tasks could vary depending on the region.

Bohemia

The head of the authority responsible for the administration of the royal finances in Bohemia was called chamber master or land clerk until 1745.

Electoral Palatinate

The land clerks in the Electoral Palatinate were responsible from the 14th century for the recording and accounting of the sovereign income. They were later given powers in other administrative areas, especially the judiciary.

Westphalia

In the Duchy of Westphalia , the land clerk was the official title of a high state official. His duties were those of a government secretary. He was responsible for the correspondence of the chancellery and the keeping of minutes at the meetings of the councils and Landdrosten . At the Westphalian state parliament he was also responsible for the minutes and reading of the electoral state parliament proposal. He also had to complete all official documents. Due to its not clearly defined position, it was not uncommon for a collision between the sovereign and rural functions.

Kurmainz

For the Electorate of Mainz , land clerks for the Rheingau and the Eichsfeld can be verified, which were subordinate to the court chamber in Mainz.

Switzerland

In some cantons , the majority of which go back to the regional locations of the Old Confederation - Obwalden , Nidwalden , Zug and Basel-Landschaft - Landschreiber is the name for the head of the central staff unit of the cantonal government and the cantonal parliament . In most of the other cantons this function is called state clerk , in a few cantons council clerk .

In addition, the clerks for the districts of the Canton of Schwyz and the Grisons region are called Davos Landschreiber.

For the land clerks in the Old Confederation, see the article linked below from the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ harm klueting: church, monasteries and spiritual state in the Duchy of Westphalia. In: Heimatblätter Arnsberg. 6, 1985, p. 10.
  2. ↑ Kathrin Ueberholz: From the Kurkölnischer crook to the Hessian lion. Administrative structures in the Duchy of Westphalia under Electoral Cologne and Hessian rule. In: Jürgen Schulte-Hobein (Ed.): Becoming, growing, working. From the change of the district administrations in the Hochsauerland 1817 to 2007. Becker, Arnsberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-930264-65-0 , p. 31 f.
  3. ^ Johann Wolf: History and description of the city of Heiligenstadt with documents. Göttingen 1800, pages 201-204