Re: [Cz-L]"Privatier"

Hello Jim, Christian, Paul, Sylvia, Arthur and all who answered my question
about =B3privatier=B2,
Thanks for your responses.
Strange that there were so many privatiers. I looked up one of my father's
cousins.
In the 1914 Address book he is a =B3privatier=B2, in the 1936 address book he is
a =B3proprietar=B2.
If I remember correctly, he did own the cinema on the Herrengasse, on the
right side=20
if you come from the Ringplatz, so I suppose he was a proprietor.

Initially I wondered whether privatier was synonymous with =B3Luftmensch=B2.
Now I am glad it is not.

Mimi

On 5/30/10 11:49 PM, "Jim Wald" <jwald_at_hampshire.edu> wrote:

> I know it only as a somewhat antiquated term for private person, akin to
> "Privatmann," i.e. someone without a fixed employment, and thus living fr=
om
> private means. (It could, for example, imply someone who has retired and =
lives
> from a pension or saved wealth.)
>=20
> Jim Wald
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