Stable master

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Stallmeister is a professional title in horse breeding and keeping . For example, there were stable masters at imperial and royal courts , at universities and in the Royal Prussian stud administration. Even today, the term is still used in some areas. The stable master is responsible for a certain number of horses.

history

The stable master (lat. Agaso ) was one of the highest court officials at medieval and modern aristocratic courts , who was responsible for supervising the stately horse stables . The grooms , coachmen and riders were subordinate to him . The important office of marshal developed from the rank of stable master .

In modern times, a distinction was made between various stable master functions: at the royal Prussian court, the head of the stables belonged to the Oberhof batches. He carried the service title of chief stable master . He was subordinate to a vice-chief stable-master and several stable-master.

A state stable master was the head of a breeding stud (e.g. Trakehnen / East Prussia main stud or Graditz / Saxony main stud ) or a stallion depot (e.g. Celle state stud in Lower Saxony or Warendorf state stud in North Rhine-Westphalia ). The head of the entire Prussian horse breeding department and the superior of all stud directors and state stable masters was the Oberland stable master, who was directly subordinate to the Prussian Minister for Agriculture. This authority was abolished after the end of World War II . Today, the title of Landstallmeister is used as an official service designation, so that managers of state stallion depots who are not employed are simply referred to as managers or directors .

In modern parlance, the term has changed: In stud farms, horse breeding and racing stables (trotting or gallop races), the stable master is responsible for the horses, including the planning of training times and the selection of feed for optimal nutrition. He also has to ensure that the horses are shod, vaccinated and dewormed and that they are under regular veterinary treatment. Even in a circus with a large number of animals, the stable master is responsible for the welfare of the animals.

Russia

In the Russian Empire there were two titles at court until 1917 Stallmeister ( Russian Schtalmeister ) and Oberstallmeister (Russian Ober-Schtalmeister ). According to the ranking table, they corresponded to the ranking categories K3 and K2.

Importance in the British Commonwealth

The literal translation of equerry is equerry , a title for a personal assistant to a member of the royal family.

Well-known stable master

  • Guillem de Cabestaing, a Provençal troubadour of the 12th century, was initially stable master of Margaridas, the wife of Raimund of Castel-Roussillon
  • George Chastelain, Flemish historian, (1404–1474) stable master of Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy
  • Chevalier Saint-Antoine , first court stable master in England to James I.
  • Maximilian Carl Theodor Graf Holnstein, husband of Caroline von Holnstein , became, among other things, Colonel Master of the Marstall Munich under Ludwig II
  • Vollrath Joachim Helmuth von Bülow (1771-1840), long-time chief stableman of the Mecklenburg main and state stud Redefin , under his direction the late classicist ensemble of stud buildings and parade ground was created
  • Friedrich Freiherr von Spörcken, royal Hanoverian Landstallmeister in Celle (1839–1866) with enormous influence on Hanoverian horse breeding and the structural development of the State Stud Celle, resigned in protest against the Prussian annexation of Hanover
  • Gerd Lehmann, senior stableman of the North Rhine-Westphalian state stud Warendorf (1966–1996), initiated the re-breeding phase to become a modern sport horse in Westphalia.
  • Johann Friedrich Rosenzweig (1716–1794), university stable master in Leipzig

Prussia

see also: stable master and country stable master of the main Trakehnen stud

Carl Heinrich August Graf von Lindenau,
royal Prussian head stable master
  • Wilhelm Theodor Freiherr von Knobelsdorf (1799–1875), nephew of the head stable master Knobelsdorf, was the state stable master of the Silesian State Stud Leubus
Fedor von Rauch, head stable master of the German emperors and Prussian kings, portrait study by Anton von Werner , around 1870

France

Plaque in honor of the stable master Antoine de Pluvinel at the location of the former Grandes Écuries in Paris

see also: Grand stable master of France ( Grand Écuyer de France )

  • Salomon de la Broue (1530–1610), stable master ( écuyer ) of the Duke of Épernon, then court stable master of Henry IV of France . He held the rank of écuyer ordinaire de la Grande Écurie , taking into account that the Grande Écurie (Great Marstall ) was not yet housed in the building of the same name in Versailles.
  • Charles du Plessis-Liancourt († 1620), first stable master ( premier écuyer ) of Henry III. from France
  • Antoine de Pluvinel (1555–1620), écuyer ordinaire at the court of Henry III. and Heinrichs IV., later écuyer principal and riding instructor of the later Louis XIII. from France.
  • Joachim comte de Lionne (? -1716), first stable master (1671–1716) of the Grande Écurie du Louvre under Louis XIV. ( Premier écuyer du roi, commandant la Grande Écurie du Louvre ).
  • Louis Cazeaux de Nestier (1686–1754), écuyer ordinaire de la Grande Écurie du Roy .
  • Jean de Beaumont (1738–1831), Marquis d'Autichamp, stable master with the Prince of Condé, general.

See also

literature

  • Christiane Gohl : What the stable master still knew. Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-440-10107-X .
  • Overview of the kuk Oberststallmeister, originally published by the Oberstallmeisteramt in 1883: adler-wien.at
  • Fedor von Rauch: Letters from the Great Headquarters 1866 a. 1870-71. Berlin, 1911, biographical introduction.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arnd Krüger : The professors for riding teaching. The beginnings of the organized science of sport . In: Stadium. 12/13. 1986/87, pp. 241-252.
  2. ↑ Riding Art . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 13, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 710.
  3. ↑ Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in Prussian service. Arnold Wever, Berlin, 1791, p. 10. books.google.fr
  4. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 502 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ Neue Würzburger Zeitung , No. 213, August 3, 1841, title page, column 2. books.google.fr
  6. ^ Newspaper for the German nobility , Helbig, 2nd year, 1st semester 1841, pp. 259/260. books.google.fr
  7. ↑ Manfred W. Graf: The Royal Prussian Stud Management , Verlag Thüringer Druckhaus, 2006, p. 211.
  8. ^ Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz: New Prussian Adels-Lexikon or Genealogical and Diplomatic News , Gebr. Reichenbach, Leipzig, 1837, p. 127. books.google.fr
  9. ^ Gabriel René Mennessier de La Lance (General): Essai de Bibliographie Hippique . Volume 2.
  10. ↑ Joachim Graf von Lionne was the son of Humbert de Lionne (around 1597–?) And Virginie Rabot d'Avrillac († 1665). See: Hugues de Lionne, Ulysse Chevalier (eds.): Lettres inédites de Hugues de Lionne, ministre des affaires étrangères sous Louis XIV, précédées d'une notice historique sur la famille de Lionne… 1877, p. 55, text archive - Internet Archive
  11. ^ See equestrian portrait of Monsieur de Nestier Écuyer Ordinaire de la Grande Écurie du Roy
  12. ^ Autichamp, 1) Jean Thérèse Louis de Beaumont . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 2, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 168.