Catering order
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the order of catering was understood to be a list stating the remuneration to which the soldiers were entitled.
history
The first food orders arose during the Thirty Years' War to prevent the soldiers from plundering by promising the warlords a permanent supply of food. The emergence of standing armies in the second half of the 17th century inevitably required rules and regulations for their order. In addition to training regulations ( drill regulations ), administrative regulations such as catering regulations were also issued.
Initially, a catering order only contained information about
- "Bread ration" = food for the soldiers,
later too
- "Horse portion" = feed and litter for the horses,
- Gage (for officers ) and pay (for NCOs and men ) (also called a tractament or tractement ),
- Accommodation allowance (for officers who had to pay for their quarters themselves),
- Regulations for other payments (e.g. scope and free renewal of the outfit ) and duties (e.g. for outfit money, Prima Plana money, pool money ),
The bread ration, also called bread portion in some catering ordinances, could be given with precise details of the type and weight of the food per day or its monetary value per month. The horse portion was given as the amount of oats , hay and straw / chaff or also in monetary value.
Catering order from 1717, page 1
Catering order from 1717, page 2
Catering order from 1717, page 3
The higher salaries of staff officers include their expenses for their personal staff ( adjutant , orderly officer , boy , etc. including their horses) - unless they are shown separately .
Examples
Catering
1715
“... as they were to behave this winter in the calculation of the bread portions to the militia registered with them, as their orderly and other commands / and praising the wood and light because of the officers / We have graciously resolved :
- 1. For this winter from November 1st, 1714 on / before a bread portion Drey Kr.
- 2nd in front of a portion of Pferdt at our garde du Corps Vierzehen KR.
- 3. Bey our body regiment Dragoons / like our beloved Erb-Printzen-Crayß regiment twelve KR.
- 4.Thens to those who are ordered to order and otherwise commanded the bread and Haber portions for as much day as they have to spend on the road / either in kind, or beforehand as much in money as two pounds of bread and one and a half fours. Habern taste / together with eight kr. Of hay and straw to be given on the way every day and night ”.
1912
During exercises of the 26th Württemberg division
- was issued
- 750 g bread
- 200 g canned meat
- 150 g canned vegetables
- 15 g coffee (distilled)
- 25 g of salt
- 500 g of potatoes could be bought over the counter
- the iron ration consisted of
- 400 g rusks
- 200 g canned meat
- 150 g canned vegetables
- 15 g coffee (distilled and ground)
- 25 g of salt
References
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- Austrian State Archives, holdings AT-OeStA / HHStA RK deductions 207a-8: War and catering order of the Swabian district in front of its militia on its feet, as compared to the general convention in Ulm, 1696
- State Archive Ludwigsburg, inventory 114 Bü 3467: Behavior and catering order from May 3, 1632 (printed, with 1 supplement)
- Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, inventory L 6, Bü 1768: Renewed and explained catering orderly of a highly commendable Swabian Crayses Before the militia that was retained during the peace period, as was the case in November 1717, the Crayß-Convent held here until other decrees compared with each other for three years. Augspurg / December 4th. 1717, printed by Andreas Maschenbauer / Stadt-Buchdr.
- Catering provisions for the major exercises of the 26th Division in 1912 , W. Kohlhamme, Stuttgart, 1912
See also
literature
- Siegfried Fiedler, Warfare and Warfare in the Age of Cabinet Wars Bernard & Graefe Verlag Koblenz, 1984, ISBN 3-7637-5478-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ Main State Archives Stuttgart, L6 Bü1768: therein dated Jan. 10, 1715