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Feuerwerker (name)

Feuerwerker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912–2003), French jurist and French Resistance fighter
  • David Feuerwerker (1912–1980), Swiss-French rabbi, professor of Jewish history
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Category:Jewish surnames

Feuerwerker

Kanonier (left) and Feuerwerker (right) of the Russian Imperial Army (1878)]]

Feuerwerker (literal: fire worker; en: ordnance technician or specialist), as well as Büchsenmeister (en: gun-master) – in the late Middle Edge until the early new times privileged soldiers, in charge of the gun service and making of ammunition. In addition to this, a Feuerwerker was a highly specialised artisan with detail knowledge of the strong protected secrets of making gunpowder and Very light.

Since the 19th century Feuerwerker became a distinguished career in Austrian, German and Russian armed forces.

Today, in the German Bundeswehr Feuerwerker is the collective designation to non-commissioned officers (OR5 to OR9) and officers of the military functional service with several years of special training pertaining to construction, maintenance, and destruction of ammunition.