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well I just found this on Wikipedia ( I know I know, why Wikipedia? ) and it turns out the Brothers Grimm have two tales about the Headless Horsemen. In one part of these tales the Headless Horsemen is refered to as "The Wild Huntsman", maybe a Widlesheer connection?

In another story, the Headless Horsemen was seen by a woman in Dresden on a Sunday Morning wearing a long grey coat sitting on a grey horse

In other Germanic versions, The Headless Horsemen seeks out perpertrators of capital crimes while in others he has a pack of black hounds so in my opinion the Headless Horsemen does indeed look like some kind of bounty hunter like you said but it seems that he/she/they would most definately be working for someone or a specific group of people who hold a great deal of power since the horsemen would have the freedom to punish capital offenders. Maybe a Government body or even a Monarchy depending on the era