Strand brother

The members of the lower or simple service of individual former German state posts were named as Litzenbruder or in the majority Litzenbrüder . In Mecklenburg-Schwerin they took on the role of parcel delivery service . According to the Mecklenburg-Schwerin postal order of 1770, they had to, among other things , get the travelers' luggage and retrieve it from the apartment. It was also part of her job to deliver letters that had not been picked up by the post office within a certain time after arrival to the recipients in the apartment. At the beginning of the 19th century there were Litzenbrüder at the Swedish traveling and Danish post offices in Hamburg. The same name was used by the parcel deliverers employed by the post in Schleswig-Holstein in 1864 .

The strand brother, des -s, plur. the brothers, in some Lower Saxony trading towns, a name for the sworn bale binders ( bales (piece goods) ), packhands, or unloaders , who make up their own guild or brotherhood there. Without a doubt from the braid, i.e. i. the rope with which they are constantly provided to carry small loads on their backs .

Litzenbrüder, originally the name of certain guild- forming goods packers in Low German cities , later transferred to the sworn undertakers (see undertakers). Litzgeld is the forwarding fee that the Litzenbrüder allow the shipper to pay.

See also

• Postal history and postage stamps of Hamburg
• Postal history and stamps of Mecklenburg
• Postal history and stamps of Lübeck
• Postal history and stamps of Schleswig-Holstein

literature

• Manual dictionary of the postal system ; 2nd Edition; P. 416
• Archive for Post and Telegraphy , published on behalf of the Reich Post Ministry , publisher: Postzeitungsamt , Berlin W, 1887, pp. 482 ff. And 571
• Möller; History of the state postal system in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin in 1897
• Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History , 62nd year, Schwerin, 1897; Pp. 88, 91, 243 ff.
• Entry in the Herders Conversations Lexicon . Freiburg im Breisgau 1856, Volume 4, p. 10.
• Entry in Pierer's Universal Lexikon , Volume 10. Altenburg 1860, p. 440.
• Entry in Brockhaus ' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon , fifth edition, volume 2. Leipzig 1911., p. 68.

Web links

• Literature about Litzenbruder in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in Adelung , Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect , Volume 2. Leipzig 1796, p. 2081.
2. ^ Entry in Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 12. Leipzig 1908, p. 623.