Lackey

Lackey (French: laquais - Footman ) was up to the Agreement of this form of personnel, the name of a servant in livery, either permanently employed in a stately home or even at short notice (of "better" visitors to a foreign city ) to rent as " Lohnlakai ".

Today it is a derogatory term for an overly submissive person, especially for a submissive subordinates. For example, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the OKW in the "Third Reich", opposite Lakeitel named among comrades because of his subservience Hitler (see Gerhard Boldt: The Last Days of the Reich Chancellery, 1947, and Gröfaz ).