[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German occupation

[Irene König]

Gary Warner schrieb am 25.05.2007 17:12 Uhr:

> I am looking at an 1880s Latvian birth record that is in German.   There 
> is an occupation that is shown as
> 
> kontraktneek


Gary,

kontraktneek / kontraktnik must be a Russian word, however, I do not 
find it in Pawlowsky's dictionnary (1911). Difficult to say what it was 
in Latvia in 1880. Literally it means something like "someone who is 
under contract".

This is what I found on the net:

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Контрактник (Kontraktnik) - contract soldier

CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS. A DICTIONARY. (English-Russian) Geneva, 2002
http://se2.dcaf.ch/serviceengine/FileContent?serviceID=DCAF&fileid=8593E081-25A9-726D-ACB4-646AD0E5BBA3&lng=en

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In Chechnya, mercenary soldiers were also called "kontraktniki", see
http://www.fidh.org/europ/rapport/2000pdf/fr/crimtche.pdf
page 50

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Furthermore, "kontraktnik" might be someone who is teaching, maybe under
fixed-term contract(?).

agent contractuel [French] - работающий по контракту, "контрактник"

http://window.edu.ru/window_catalog/files/r37402/makarovamak.pdf
page 78

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