Translation of "Wachtkassengeldeinnehmer"

Question

What's the best translation for "Wachtkassengeldeinnehmer"? An eighteenth-century ancestor had this position; was it something more than managing funds for the municipal guard, as its component parts suggest? LEO, Duden, and Mackensen are no clear help. Thanks!

Answer 1

The collector for payments towards the maintenance of the guard.

Comments

Vielen Dank, Helmut!

My guess was close ("in charge of funds for the municipal guard"); I'll tweak the bio to follow your translation... thanks again!

(Hans-Hellmuth) Michael

Answer 2

I can't find anymore than you already seem to have. For example, from Muret-Sanders (1905):

• einnehmenen: to take (in), to recieve
• kassen: Cash
• kassengeld: current money
• kasseneinnehmer: reciever, collector
• geldeinnehmer: receiver of money, money-taker, cashier

In context of "Wacht~" my inference would be the job was less "accountant" and more "collections officer" - i.e. collecting fees and fines and selling seized property, rather than "managing funds.

Comments

or what Helmut already gave while I was reading/typing my answer :)

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I'm somewhere close to 80-90% fluent in German, so I'd divvied up the German jawbreaker much like you did (wondering also whether there might be a connection to "Einnahme", or "income").

Helmut seems to have nailed it quite nicely... and perfectionist and writer me, I'm trying to find something even smoother than his succinct translation. So I like your "collections officer" even more than "collector", since it underscores that geldeinnehmen refers to an actual profession, and not just a job/task.

So thanks, Rob (and wiedermal Dank, Namensvetter Helmut)... cheers!