Chest master

The chest master was the treasurer of the knighthood and committees , but also of the pens , the " chest ", while the landscape taker was responsible for the financial management of the landscape treasury for the estates . This also applied to the collection of taxes from the subjects. The chest master was initially determined from the knight captains, later from the local executive committee. He had a chest clerk who, as it were, kept the registry . Although he was elected, but had the bailiff be re-elected. Chest master and landscape conquerors together represented the landscape to the sovereign .

literature

Chest master. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 22 : Treib – Tz - (XI, 1st section, part 2). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1952 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).

Individual evidence

^ Johann Georg Kerner : General positive state land law of the immediate freyen freyen imperial knighthood, in Swabia, Franconia and on the Rhine . tape 2 . Meyersche Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1788, § 80, p. 320–323 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[1] Johann Georg Kerner : General positive state land law of the immediate freyen freyen imperial knighthood, in Swabia, Franconia and on the Rhine . tape 2 . Meyersche Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1788, § 80, p. 320–323 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).