Hundertschaft is a German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 term to denote a military

Military

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 or police

Police

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 group of around one hundred members. Historically the Germanic tribes created fighting groups of 100 men. This term is not used in the modern German military. It is currently used by the Bereitschaftspolizei

Bereitschaftspolizei

The Bereitschaftspolizei are the support and rapid reaction units of Germany's police forces...

(riot police) of the Landespolizei

Landespolizei

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(state police) and German Federal Police

German Federal Police

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to designate company-sized police reserve units.