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Schnapphahn was a common name in the Middle Ages and early modern times for a mounted highwayman , rioter or robber baron .

One of the best-known groups under this name were the Danish-minded Snapphanar (Danish: Snaphaner ), who fought against the Swedish army in the 17th century in the originally Danish areas of Skåne , Halland and Blekinge (in today's southern Sweden) with guerrilla tactics .

In the German-speaking world, the term is immortalized through its use in Grimmelshausen's main work Simplicissimus from 1668/69, in which the main character Simplicius can outsmart the "snap-cocks" on his escape through the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War . The word was adopted phonetically in French during the Thirty Years War; It is interesting that it is still used with the meaning “rascal”, “rascal” or “villain” in everyday life. A historically handed down Schnapphahn activity - also during the Thirty Years' War - can be proven in the Torstensson War of 1643-1645 in Holstein; here irregularly set up squads of free Holstein servants or snap-cocks against Swedish occupiers under the secret commandant Caspar von Buchwaldt on the Siegesburg and carried out a number of raids in the surrounding area.

The Duden names the Middle High German word snap - street robbery (snapping) as the etymological origin . The designation of a person with a characteristic in combination with an animal species can also be found in Bookworm, Schmusekater .

Grimm's German Dictionary excludes the sometimes suspected reference to the snap lock :

“A relationship with the cock of the shotgun lock would be ... impossible, because at the time the word appeared, there was no such thing. when interpreting the word one will rather snap at the verb ... and at the subst. rooster in transference to a human being ... to think and to explain the word as a crude and not without humor designation of a snapping, prey-grabbing head guy "

- Keyword Schnapphahn in: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: German dictionary

Individual evidence

  1. Dansk Militærhistorie: Snaphaner - Friskytter i Skånelandene (Danish, accessed on 31 October 2015).
  2. Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: The adventurous Simplicissimus Teutsch . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1984 (library of world literature). This edition is based on the first print. With explanations of words (40 pages) and an afterword by Günther Deicke. Without illustrations.
  3. Source: fr.wiktionary.org [1]
  4. http: //schnapphähne.de