Order master

Master of the Order - or Master of the Order  - is originally the highest office ( superior general ) of some Christian religious orders . The term was also adopted for official designations in some secular associations that are structured in a similar way to religious orders, e.g. B. Wine fraternities .

If there are several masters of the order, an additional designation applies:

• A grand master presides over various orders of knights .
• The Teutonic Order is the Grand Master before.
• The since the Reformation Protestant Order of St. John is the Herrenmeister ago.
• In the Dominican order the Latin title is Magister Ordinis , German "Ordensmeister" or " Generalmeister ".
• In the Mercedarian Order , the Italian title is Maestro Generale , German Generalmagister .

See also: General Chapter

literature

• Order master . In: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 10 , issue 3/4 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-7400-0985-3 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).