Wise words, Hardy.
Shelley
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Hardy Breier <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:
> Expertise.
> Whenever an old word comes up and list assistance
> is required a lot of volunteers pop up to help.
> As most of these were born late in Rumanian era
> and some of the terms were not clearly defined
> even in the Habsburg times, I wonder .
> Maybe it comes from Google ?
> But Googling everybody can.
> I can do it with the speed of summer lightning.
> But it is not my memory !
> Therefore Privatbeamter stays a mistery for me.
> Everybody could assume this title.
> He could be a Leidiggeier doing nothing!
> Who knows,
>
> Hardy
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> [mailto:bounce-118706340-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu] בשם Miriam Taylor
> נשלח: Thursday, January 15, 2015 6:12 PM
> אל: Benjamin Grilj
> עותק: Shula Klinger; Czernowitz Genealogy and History
> נושא: Re: [Cz-L] Privatbeamter?
>
> To add to what others and I wrote about this subject before:
> A "Beamter" is anyone who works in an office,
> from the word "Amt" in German.
> Basically it was what we now in English mean by
> " a white collar worker"
> A "Beamter or a "Beamtin" job engendered greater respect
> than a salesperson or factory job, but a "Privatbeamter"
> was not as respected as a Regierung Beamter" (government official).
>
> Mimi
> On Jan 15, 2015, at 4:57 AM, Benjamin Grilj wrote:
>
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