Dijkgraaf (official)

Reeve (also Deichvogt, dike Juror, Judge dike, dyke captain ) is the name of the head of a co-operative association dike, which is responsible for the maintenance and installation of dikes. On the Lower Rhine in the form Deichgräf is common. Sometimes Strandvögte also perceived duties of a reeve.

Dikemaster was the chief among the reeve of a province, who led the overall supervision of the dike system and otherwise was also called upper dike inspector; in Lower Germany: Upper dike Grafe, Upper dike Grefe.

In the Netherlands, there is still the Dijkgraaf as head of a water board, a unit of subnational government.

Literally the reeve in the person of Hauke ​​sharks was immortalized The White Horse Rider in Theodor Storm's novella.

In addition, reeve is the name of the IC trains in 2314 and 2315, which operate in the summer season between Cologne and Westerland Westerland and Heidelberg and Stuttgart, as well as.