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Small Group Cohesion and Military Social Networks as Seen through a Theft of Fabric
from Scene I - Hieronymus Sebastian Schutze and Hans Devil
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2024
On November 30, 1625, a substantial quantity of fabric from a shipment intended for the Mansfeld Regiment’s third-most-honorable company went missing. The regimental legal establishment investigated the theft but covered up one key detail, revealed at the end of this chapter. This incident sheds light on the way this company interacted with a cloth trade that spanned Europe, in addition to the criminal activities of its captain/owner, regimental quartermaster Wolfgang Winckelmann. The investigation revealed that Winckelmann’s flag-bearer Hieronymus Sebastian Schutze also stole some fabric and distributed it to some men in this company. These men can be traced using social network analysis. This chapter argues that the concept of small group cohesion should be supplemented with the broader concept of military social networks.
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