Hauptmann
This article is about the title and rank. For people of this name, see Hauptmann (disambiguation).Hauptmann () is a
German word usually translated as
captain when it is used as an officer's rank in the
German Army.
More generally, it can be used the head of any hierarchically structured group of people, often as a compound word. For example, a
Feuerwehrhauptmann is, in Austria, the captain of a fire brigade, while the word
Räuberhauptmann refers to the leader of a gang of robbers.
Official Austrian titles incorporating the word include
Landeshauptmann,
Bezirkshauptmann,
Burghauptmann and
Berghauptmann.
In
Saxony during the
Weimar Republic, the titles of
Kreishauptmann and
Amtshauptmann were held by senior civil servants.
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Deutsches Wörterbuch, Hauptmann
