Historical

Robber gave and gives it at all times. Grave robbers were already in pharaonischer time in Egypt well-known and people robbers know one from before-Roman time with the legendary robbery of the Sabinerinnen. In the new will the speech from the barmherzigen Samariter, which humans helped, is, who fell among the robbers.

Until in the late Middle Ages inside robbers were often organized in gangs of robbers. These also still represented often authoritarianly led communities, in 17. and to in 18. Century existed. A such gang of robbers consisted usually of a robber captain and its Gefolgsleuten, which were connected by an oath on death. The members of the gang of robbers were before usually discharging or deserters and bird-free.

Well-known robbers and gangs of robbers were:

• Lips Tullian
• Nikol cunning
• Carl barrier man, called robber captain rose
• Robin Hood
• Fra Diavolo, an Italian bandit
• Ned Kelly, a famous notorious Australian bandit
• Johannes called Schinderhannes
• Christian Andreas's cheese beer, who is to have Friedrich the large one even the city Prague "“stolen"”
• Franz Troglauer
• Mathias Kneissl, called Kneissl Hias
• Matthias Klostermayr, called Bavarian Hiasl
• Grasel - (wrong) the Austrian Robin Hood
• Babinsky - still another legendary k&k robber, to who the escape from the legendary play mountain succeeded
• Black guard
• Simon Kramer
• Johannes Karasek
• Janoschick, a slowakischer people hero from the Beskiden
• Mathias weber, called the Fetzer
• Karl called Robin Hood of the ore mountains or also Saxonian Robin Hood.

Robber in the literature

In the exit 18. Century developed a rapidly widening kind of the maintenance novel, the so-called robber novel. The interest was caused once by the occupation with the Middle Ages, on the other hand by the dramas of Goethe of Berlichingen, which was awake, the figure of a robbery knight) and Schiller (the robbers). The robber novels of that time still emphasized the picture of the large chap and ideal of the noble criminal, put on in Schillers Karl moorland, and let their robbers and gangs of robbers against the laws, but for the justice act. To call here above all Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokkes novel the large bandit (1793) and Christian August Vulpius book Rinaldo Rinaldini are, the robber captain (1798).

Among the robbers as literary shapes rank above all:

• Ali Baba and the forty robbers (fairy tales from 1001 night)
• The robbers, Friedrich Schiller (1782, premiere)
• The pub in the Spessart (narrations of William Hauff, narration of the same name also filmed) (1828 book)
• The gang of robbers, Leonhard franc (1914)
• Robber Hotzenplotz (Kinderbuch of Otfried Preussler) (1962/1970/1973)
• The three robbers (picture book of Tomi Ungerer) (1963)
• Ronja robber daughter (youth book of Astrid Lindgren, also filmed) (1981 book)

It is occupied that at least the mentioned by Hauff existed and above all to dealers on the so-called donkey way, who transported salt and other goods, out-robbed and for the buyers a ransom required. To mark it is that particularly in 20. Century was often represented the robber romance for children again playing down and related in some works also educationally.

"“Modern trend"” robber

In 19. and 20 century became above all and spectacular bank robbers by press and audiovisual media admits. The post office robbery of the robber captain Ronald Biggs is to be called here likewise as bank robbery-ends Dalton brothers. Also John Dillinger is to be particularly mentioned in this connection.

In South Germany Johannes was, the "“Schinderhannes"” from the late 18. Century, the model for Bernhard Kimmel and its after it designated bilge L-band, who undertook forest of raids and break-downs from 1957 to 1961 in the

Handbag robbers in large cities are almost everyday in the course of the procurement criminality.

Idioms

Colloquial is a set of idioms common, e.g.

• Here it looks as in a robber cave = is very untidy it here
• Tell no robber pistols = tell no (untrue, exaggerated) stories
• '' Robber civilian clothes wear '' = to the situation inadequately, carelessly dressed its

In the political life Augustinus' comparison of states without right nationalness with gangs of robbers is gladly quoted: Remota itaque iustitia quid sunt regna nisi magna Quia et latrocinia quid sunt nisi parva (De Civitate Dei, Liber IV, 4); corresponding translation "“takes the right nationalness away, which are states if not large gangs of Because which are gangs of robbers other one than commonwealth in the small

Robber one calls in biology also an animal, which makes itself another victim, sees above term explanation, robber booty relationship, Raubtier.

See also

Bank robbery - grave robber - mouth robbery - robbery - robber and gendarme - predatory extortion - - robbery war - robbery knight - Raubtier - pirate

Related links

• ''' Occupation: Robber ''' - from the gang nature to the Schillerzeit

• The heath robbers of the H.Kohlhase

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