Amtmann
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Amtmann can be :
- a feudal, administrative and/or gubernatorial title, such as BezirksamtmannBezirksamtmannBezirksamtmann is a German administrative title of gubernatorial or lower rank, roughly translating as and equivalent to District Officer-Colonial use:...
(District officer). Amtmann, ammann and amman were a kind of bailiffBailiffA bailiff is a governor or custodian ; a legal officer to whom some degree of authority, care or jurisdiction is committed...
in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and in Brussels. - a title for a government official (pay grade A11, corresponding to an Army CaptainCaptain (OF-2)The army rank of captain is a commissioned officer rank historically corresponding to command of a company of soldiers. The rank is also used by some air forces and marine forces. Today a captain is typically either the commander or second-in-command of a company or artillery battery...
) in present-day Germany and for a municipal official in the Austrian state of BurgenlandBurgenlandBurgenland is the easternmost and least populous state or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstädte and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities. It is 166 km long from north to south but much narrower from west to east... - a family name, as in Bernard AmtmannBernard AmtmannBernard Amtmann , antiquarian bookseller, bibliographer, publisher and founder of Montreal Book Auctions in 1967 and the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of Canada in 1966, was born in Vienna, Austria in 1907....