Drost ( him. Drost, drossart, drossete ) - the official responsible for managing a particular terrain in military, legal and police terms and representing the interests of the landowner. The functions of the drost are comparable with the appointments of the positions of Amtman , amtshauptmanov Landratov , Trukhsesov . Drosta’s home and workplace was called Drostei ( Drostei ).
The concept is distributed in the Late Middle Ages especially in the north-west of Germany in the Lower Rhine , Westphalia and East Frisia , but also in Mecklenburg and the Netherlands .
At the beginning of the newest time, the word “Drost” also meant a policeman and a military noble title. In Hannover, until 1885, the head of the county office was called landdrost. The common origin with the word "drost" has the name of one of the highest posts of medieval Scandinavia - " drotts ".