
thumb|A Schultheiß in the 16th century
thumb|A Schultheiß in the 16th century
In medieval Germany, the Schultheiß () was the head of a municipality (akin to today's office of mayor), a Vogt or an executive official of the ruler. As official (villicus) it was his duty to order his assigned village or county (villicatio) to pay the taxes and perform the services due to the ruler. The name originates from this function: Schuld 'debt' + heißen 'to order'. Later, the title was also used for the head of a town (Stadtschultheiß) or village (Dorfschultheiß).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).