[Swiss Ger.; f. land LAND sb. + amman(n = G. amtmann, f. amt office, magistracy + mann man.] In Switzerland, the title applied to the chief magistrate in certain cantons, and formerly also to the chief officer in certain smaller administrative districts.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 308. The village of Gersaw … has its land amman, its council of regency.
1822. L. Simond, Switzerland, I. 438. A series of portraits, of all the landammanns and statthalters (lieutenants of the landammann) for several centuries past.
1868. Kirk, Chas. Bold, III. V. iii. 435. The old landamman of Schwytz, Ulrich Kätzy, gave wiser counsel.
