Rod holder

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In some areas of Germany, the term staff holder , staff member , staff member , staff bearer denoted those who carried or held the staff as a sign of the judicial dignity conferred on them or the commanding authority , i.e. the president or chairman . At the former imperial district court in Swabia , the person who represented the position of the district judge was therefore called both staff holder and governor . In Canton Schaffhausen was bar holder of the vice in the 19th century the title municipality president .

At the tournaments , the tournament bailiffs carried the name of the stabel lords or stabel masters, which dignity could also be found among the Austrian-imperial court servants or officials, where the stabel master is one of the seventeen hereditary officials of Austria under the Enns.

In some places the master craftsmen who were given staves and saints as a sign of their violence were called stabbers.

This name was also borne by a special divisional coin , which was minted by a bishop 's staff, of which 60 went to a Rhenish gold gulden. A staff carrier is the one who carries the staff as a symbolic mark. So z. B. in the Roman Catholic Church the one who presents the bishop's staff to the clergy, called the staff bearer. In the rifle societies of some places this name was used by a senior officer who was provided with a certain degree of power and who is said to have been the general = mighty one of this society.

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