Amtmann

plural Amtmenn

1. historicalAn official in German-speaking countries of Europe in the Middle Ages, similar to a bailiff.

   The Amtmann promised to be silent. Forthwith he made his report about the discovery of the hero, abstaining from all allusion to the rum.

   1869 November, “A Hero of Waterloo”, in The Odd Fellow's Companion, page 252

   2 more examples

   Under the Sýslumenn and appointed by the Amtmenn are the Hreppstjórar or Hreppstjórnarmenn, bailiffs and poor-inspectors with parochial jurisdiction.

   1875, Richard Francis Burton, Ultima Thule: Or, A Summer in Iceland, volume 1, page 119

   Political connections were also established when two sisters or other female kin each married an Amtmann, making them in-laws by marriage.

   2016, Katherine Brun, The Abbot and his Peasants: Territorial Formation in Salem from the Later Middle Ages to the Thirty Years War