When game contactor or Wilddieb, in the vernacular often only Wilderer mentioned, one designates all persons, who go without authentication on the hunt.

Origin

The right to the hunt was original an age-old Germanic right, which was entitled to all free Teuton equally. This right was not attacked also still until far in the Middle Ages and so was allowed each free citizen, primarily the farmers, hunts, in order to defend either their livestocks or their reason before game damage or to provide however around itself food.

History

But with the always far rising dependence of the farmers on their national gentlemen on the one hand, as well as the rising capture of free on the part of the aristocracy this right was more and more scooped out.

When the aristocracy began to understand the hunt as a sporty challenge and as pastime the citizens the right was finally extracted to the hunt and placed under heavy punishment. At the same time took over so-called Forstbeamte or by the national gentlemen legitimized persons the protection, the care as well as the monitoring of the hunting ground. All illegal hunters were called from now on game contactors and regarded and pursued as criminals, because they touched the property national gentlemen.

With the revolution 1848 also the hunt privilege of the aristocracy was abolished, but also still became Wilderer until far in 20. Century as offenders pursues.

Also today the Wildern is a criminal offence. The Wilderei, in this connection "Jagdwilderei", is in Germany after "§ 292 of the StGB one "criminal offence against the fortune and against community values ". Because of Wilderei that is punished, which hunts the hunt-practice-entitled from its position displaced and as unauthorized person game.

Regard

The Wilderer were usually clarified by the poor national population fast to heroes. On the one hand because they caused partly sensitive damage to the national gentlemen, on the other hand because the hunted game represented often still the only possibility the large families to nourish. Particularly the Wilderer from the alps were admired there all right early by those resident population as heroes, since wildern in the dangerous mountain regions presuppose not only extremely good local knowledge, but also special boldness and nature understanding. The mountain gebirgs-Wilderer drew therefore already at a time, in mountain pastes still completely strangely were, by high bergsteigerische abilities out, and also today still some mountain moving ways can multiple be originally attributed to paths put on by Wilderer. With these so-called pathpath paths it often acted around (hid) ways of the game by the Unterholz (game paths), which too own the Wilderer made itself by observation, all to seek out better the game. In the course of the romance at the beginning 19. Century were finally represented to mountain game contactors in connection with the alpine motives also in art and literature ever more frequently than "natural heroes" and admired.

Punishments

The punishments for Wilderei accepted fast heavy extents and could with repetition authors also up to the death penalty reach. The aristocracy wanted to suffocate by the drakonischen measures the Wilderei from the outset in the germ, but promoted thereby rather the reputation of the Wilderer. pretty often the Wilderer by the Forstbeamten national gentlemen was hunted and still before actual seizing killed, so that only few were actually imprisoned taken and condemned to game contactors.

At first the Wilderer were entehrt still with the putting of "deer antlers on", which they had to carry for several days. Finally heavy work services came in addition as measure of punishment also "at the pillory stand" or. A further form of humiliating was the so-called "capcap cap", an iron head coverage, which was rivetted under heavy pain at the head of the condemned one and which this had to then carry for a longer period. The Wilderer by the strand were often attached executed in such a way also as indication of their criminal offence as well as for deterrence antlers or a skin over the Galgen.

Famous Wilderer

• George Jennerwein
• Karl
• Hare staff (Spessart)
• The Lexengangerl (Upper Palatinate in Bavaria)

See also:

• That game contactor, amusing opera in three elevators, of Albert Lortzing

See also

• Wilderei
• Meat cave

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