"Er" capitalized is 18th cty German common usage, the form of address used when a superior talks to an inferior. Frederick the Great, in many anecdotes, uses this "Er": "Kerl, was faellt Ihm ein?"
"Bucklicht" ,too, was the current form in 18th cty German, today replaced by "bucklig" (hunchbacked ), but still known through the popular rhyme of the "bucklicht Maennlein" taken up by Guenter Grass, among others. G. Rebing
