Re: [Cz-L]"Privatier"

"Privatier " is the default profession of the system.
  If no profession is stipulated,the system makes you a "privatier".
   Instead of a blank.
    Privatier is also more respectable than "unemployed".
Hardy
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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "Jim Wald" <jwald_at_hampshire.edu>; "Arthur Rindner"
<vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com>; "Paul Heger" <pheger_at_gmail.com>; "Sylvia de
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Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 9:47 PM
Subject: 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
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