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German Occupations (Berufe)

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Feiltraeger - riflemaker
Felbaweber - silkweaver
Feldbauer - grain farmer
Feldgeschworener - settler of boundary disputes.
FeldhueterFeldschuetz - field watchman
Feldjaeger - courier
Feldkaplan - (mil.) field chaplain
Feldm. - abbr. for Feldmarschall
Feldmarschall - field marshall
Feldmeister - skinner; flayer
Feldprediger - (mil.) field chaplain
Feldreiter - policeman
Feldrichter - arbitrator of field disputes
Feldscher(er) - assistant medical officer
Feldw. - abbr. of Feldwebel
Feldwe(i)bel - (mil) noncommissioned officer; sergeant (major); sergeant (first class)
Felgenhauer - (wooden) wheel rim maker
Fellbereiter - currier
Feller, Fellhaendler - fur trader
Felllmann - animal hide skinner
Fellwerkbereiter - furrier
Fenner - ensign; flagbearer
Fensterputzer - window-washer
Ferber - dyer
Ferd(e)menger - horse trader
Ferge - ferryman
Festbaecker - baker of dark large loaves of bread
Fetthake, Fettmengen - lard merchant
Feuerer - stoker
Feuergeschworener - fire engine maintenance man
Feuermaeuerkehrer - chimney sweep
Feulner - filemaker
Feurer - stoker
Fiarant - merchant at a market
Fiaulmacher - wheelwright
Fickenwirt(h) - pursemaker
Fidler - fiddller; violinist
Fiedler - fiddler; violinist
Filterer - feltmaker
Findel - foundling; abandoned infant
Fischbeinhaendler - whalebone trader
Fischer(mann) - fisherman
Fischmenger - fishmonger
Fischweicher - seller of dried fish
Fiskal - tax inspector
Fitzer - artistic weaver
FJg. - abbr. for Feldjaeger
FK - abbr for Freikorporal (Free Corporal)
Flachshaendler - flax trader
Flachsmenger - flax trader
Flader - pastry baker
Flaeminger - tanner
Flaeschner - plumber
Flaeminger - tanner
Flaschenmacher - bottlemaker
Flaschner, Flaeschner - plumber
Fleischbeschauer - meat inspector
Fleisch-er, -hacker, -hauer, -mann - butcher, meatcutter
Flickschneider - repairer of clothes
Flickschuster - cobbler; shoe repairman
Flieger - aviator
Flintfiller - stonemason
Flitterer - gold leaf maker
Floesser - raftsman
Fluechtling - refugee
Flurschuetz(e) - field watch, forester
Flyerin - (female) wool-spinning machine operator
Focker - merchant
Foeniseca - mower, cutter
Foerster, Forster, Forstner - forester; forest ranger
Folterer, Folterknecht - torturer
Forense - absentee lord of and estate
Formdreher, Former Formschneider - formcutter; molder
Forscher(in) - researcher
Forstverwalter - forest superindendent
Fotograf(in) - photographer
Fotograph(in) - photographer
Fotzenstecher - animal castrator
Fourier - quartermaster
FP - abbr. for Feldprediger, field chaplain
Frachter, Fraechter, Frachtfahrer - freight hauler
Fraele - midwife
Fragner - merchant
Freibauer - free farmer with only small rent payments
Freibeuter - pirate, buccaneer
Freibote - court messenger
Freigraf - magistrate
Freiherr - ruler not subject to anyone but the Emperor; baron
Freiknecht - renderer; knacker
Freimann - tramp
Freimaurer - Freemason; member of the Masonic Lodge
Freisasse - farmer on Freisassenhof, a farm largely free
from tithes
Freischulze - village mayor and founder of a farming community
Freischuster - nonn-guild cobbler
Freiwaechter - soldier released from duty but kept in reserve; National Guardsman
Fremdarbeiter(in) - foreign worker
Fremde(r) - stranger; person from elsewhere
Friedhofswaerter - cemetery employee
Friedmacher - plasterer
Frischmeister - master iron founder
Friseur - male barber; hairdresser
Friseuse - female hairdresser
Froehner, Froender, Froener - one doing forced labor for the ruler
Froehner, Froener - one doing forced labor for the ruler
Frohne - court messenger
Fruchthaendler - fruit trader; grain trader
Frumwerker - day laborer
Fucker(er), Fugger(er) - wholesaler
Fuderer - cattle feeder
Fuehrer -guide; leader; hauler; local official
Fuehrerin - female guide, leader
Fuetterer - servant who feeds cattle
Fuhrmann - freight handler; carrier; carter
Fuhrunternehmer - freight hauler
Fuker - wholesaler
Fussknecht - infantryman; foot soldier
Fuetter - cattle feed merchant
Futterknecht - servant who feeds cattle

G & H UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Imber - herb merchant
Imitraeger - cooper
Imker - beekeeper
Impfartz - vaccinating physician
Infrau - female inhabitant
Ingrossist - tax collector
Ingwer - spice merchant
Inhaber(in) - proprietor
Inlaender(in) - citizen, non-foreigner
Inlieger, Inligger - tenant; lodger
Inmann - male inhabitant
Innungsmeister - master of a local guild
Innungsmitglied - member of a local guild
Innungsobermeister - chief master of a local guild
In(n)wohner - inhabitant
Insasse - male hospital patient; inhabitant
Insassin - female hospital patient; inhabitant
Insgesessene(r) - non-citizen tenant
Inste - renter; hired help; pensioner; craftsman with no land
Instmann - farm worker; hired help; pensioner; craftsman with no land
Interimswirt(h) - farmer who marries into a farm (by marrying the widow or heiress)
Ipser - house painter; decorator
Ircher - goat leather tanner

Jaeger - hunter; (mil.) rifleman
JAG - abbr. for Feldj„ger-Korps (Courier Corps)
Jagdgehilfe - hunting helper
Jaeger - hunter; (mil.) rifleman
Jahrmeister - guildmaster
Jammer - epilepsy
Jaufer, Jaufmann - itinerant juggler
Jgfr., Jngfr. - abbr. for Jungfrau (Miss; virgin)
Jobstkrankheit - leprosy
Johanniter - Maltese Knights
jong Gezel - bachelor; young journeyman
Jugendrichter - juvenile court judge
Jungmann - young male servant
Junker - young nobleman (Prussian army officer); country squire
Jurist - lawyer; law student
Justizbeamte - judicial official

Kabinettmeister - administrator
Kabuzenbauer - cabbage farmer
Kacheler, Kachler, Kaechler - tilemaker; tile-layer; potter
Kaehler - collier; coal merchant
Kaelker - limeburner
Kaemifaeger - chimneysweep
Kaemmerer, Kaemmerin - steward; treasurer; buttler
Kaemmerling - domestic servant; valet
Kaendler - canmaker; gutter repairer
Kaercher - wagonmaker
Kaerrner - freight hauler (by cart)
Kaesebaecker - cheesemaker
Kaeshaendler,Kaeser - cheese trader
Kaesmacher - cheesemaker
Kaestenbrenner - chestnut roaster
Kaestner - steward; treasurer; carpenter
Kaet(h)ner - cottager with samll house, garden, a little land for cattle or anaimals
Kaeufel, Kaeufeler - small merchant; peddler
Kaeufer - merchant
Kaeufler - small merchant; peddler
Kaffhaarmacher - velvet weaver
Kafiller - renderer; knacker
Kagelbruder - fishmonger
Kageler, Kagelmacher, Kagelmann - tilemaker; tile-layer; potter
Kaehler - collier; coal merchant
Kahnsmann - bargeman
Kallchborner - chalk burner
Kalfakter, Kalfaktor - boilerman; caretaker
Kaltschlaechter - renderer; knacker
Kaltschmi(e)d - coppersmith
Kamesierer - peddler
Kaminfeger - chimneysweep
Kammerbeamte(r) - treasury clerk
Kammerbedienter - valet
Kammerdame - maid
Kammerdiener - valet
Kaemmerer - treasurer; butler
Kammerherr - chamberlain
Kaemmerin - treasurer; butler (female)
Kammerjungfer - chambermaid
Kammerjunker - chamberlain
Kammerlakai - servant of the court; lackey
Kaemmerling - domestic servant; valet
Kammermaedchen, -maedchen - chambermaid
Kammermeister - internal revenue administrator
Kammerpaechter, -paechter - crown-land tenant
Kammerportier - domestic servant
Kammersteward - ship's cabin steward
Kammerzofe - chambermaid
Kampelmacher - combmaker
Kampheuerling - tenant of a farm belonging to nobility
Kanalarbeiter - canal worker
Kandelgiesser - (tin or pewter) can founder
Kandler, Kaendler - (tin or pewter) can founder; gutter repairer
Kanefassmacher - canvas weaver
Kannengiesser - (tin or pewter) can founder
Kantengiesser - (tin or pewter) can founder
Kanzelredner - preacher
Kanzleibeamte(r), -bote - government official
Kanzleidiener - government servant
Kanzleischreiber - chancery clerk
Kanzleivorsteher - head chancery clerk
Kanzlist - chancery clerk
Kapauner - animal castrator
Kapellmeister - bandleader
Kaplan - chaplain; clergyman in a chapel
Kappenmacher - capmaker
Kappusmann - cabbage merchant
Karbender - wheelwright
Karchelzieher - freight hauler
Karcher - freight hauler in a cart
Kaercher - wagonmaker
Karpe - carpenter
Karrer - carter
Kaerrner - freight hauler (in a cart)
Kartenmaler - painter for (religious) woodcuts
Karter - wool carder
Kartzin - money changer
Kaesebaecker - cheesemaker
Kaesehaendler - cheese merchant
Kaeser, Kaesmacher - cheesemaker
Kassengehilfe, -gehuelfe - sales clerk
Kassi(e)rer(in) - cashier
Kastellein - innkeeper
Kaestenbrenner - chestnut roaster
Kastenkeller - tax official
Kastenmeister - administrator of a church office
Kaestner - steward; treasurer; carpenter
Kat(h)enmann - cottager with small house, garden, a little land for animals
Kaet(h)ner - cottager with small house, garden, a little land for animals
Kattunweber - cotton weaver
Kaeufel - small merchant
Kauffrau - business woman; female shopkeeper
Kaeufler - small merchant; peddler
Kaufmann - merchant
Kauwarz - moneylender
Kaviller - renderer; knacker
Kedde - peasant master
Keifer, Keiffer - cooper
Keiper - captain of a fishing boat
Keller - wine steward
Kellereiverwalter - administrator of the winecellar
Kellerherr - wine steward
Kellermeister - keeper of the winecellar
Kellerwart - cooper
Kellner - waiter, receiver of revenues; steward
Kellnerin - waitress
Keltermacher - winepress maker
Kemmetfeger, Kenderkehrer - chimneysweep
Kendler - canmaker
Kerkermeister - jailer
Kerzenmeister - chairman of a guild
Kerzenzieher - chandler
Kesselflicker - itinerant kettle repairman; soothsayer and medicine man
Kesselschmi(e)d - boilermaker
Kesskaiffer - cheese merchant
Kessler, - kettlemaker; coppersmith
Kestner - steward; treasurer
Ketelbuter - pot repairer
Kettenmacher, Kettenschmi(e)d - chainmaker
Kettler - kettlemaker
Kettner - chainmaker
Keuschler - small farmer
Kiefer, Kieffer - cooper
Kindelmutter - midwife
Kinderarzt(in) - pediatrician
Kindererzieherin - female teacher of young children
Kinderfraeulein, - governess
Kinderfrau - nanny
Kindermaedchen, -maedchen - nanny
Kinderschwester - children's nurse
Kindervater male - obstetrician
Kinderzieher(in) - tutor
Kirchenbeter - church tax collector
Kirchenbuchfuehrer(in) - one in charge of church books ; church book keeper
Kirchencensor - church censor (guardian of morals)
Kichendiener - church sexton
Kichenfuerst, - prelate
Kirchengeschworener - chuch juryman
Kirchenjuraten - church juryman
Kirchenlehrer(in) - church teacher
Kirchenmeyer - administrator of church farm property
Kirchenpfleger - church caretaker
Kirchenprovisor - administrator of church farm property
Kirchenrat(h) - church council
Kirchenschoeffe - church lay juryman
Kirchenvater - church administrator
Kirchenvogt - lay administrator of church property
Kirchenvorsteher - chairman of the church council; deacon
Kircher - sexton; pastor
Kirchner - sexton
Kirchschaffner - administrator of church farm property
Kirchspielshauptmann - president of church congregation
Kirchspielsrichter - chairman of church congregation
Kirchvater - church father; presbyter; church elder
Kistenmacher - maker of boxes; woodworker
Klagbote - lawyer
Klagfuehrer - lawyer
Klaiber - stucco worker
Klammer, Klampferer - plumber
Klausner - hermit; recluse
Kleber - stucco worker
Klecker - painter
Kleenschmi(e)d - blacksmith
Kleiber - stucco worker
Kleidermacher - maker of clothes
Kleinbauer - farmer with a small farm
Kleinbinder, Kleinboettcher - cooper for small barrels
Kleinhaendler - retailer
Kleinknecht - young helper; apprentice
Kleinkoetner, -koetter - cottager with a small house, garden and a little land for
animals
Kleinschmi(e)d(t) - locksmith
Kleinschnitzler - detail carver
Klempner - plumber; tinsmith
Kleriker - cleric; clergyman
Klerk - writer; clerk
Klingelschmid(t) - bellmaker
Klingenkaufmann - cutlery merchant
Klingenschmid(t) - bellmaker
Klinger - blacksmith
Klippkraemer - cork merchant
Kloeckner - church sexton; bellringer
Kloterer - juggler
Klozenmacher, Klozenkorkenmacher - cork maker
Kluengelkerl, - scrap dealer
Knaebin - woman's helper (female)
Knaeufler - button maker
Knakenhauer - butcher
Knapsack - peddler
Knaufelmacher, Knaeufler - button maker
Knecht - servant; farmhand; apprentice; errand boy; laborer
Kneipwirt(h) - proprietor of a tavern; alehouse keeper
Knepsche - weaver's helper (female)
Kneveler - beer hauler
Knieriem(en) - shoemaker
Knochenhauer - butcher
Knoespler - wooden-shoe maker
Knopfmacher(in) - button maker
Knoespler - wooden-shoe maker
Kobelhirt - horse groom
Koebler - cooper; farmer of a small farm
Koch(in) - cook; chef
Koebler - cooper; farmer of a small farm
Koechin - female cook
Koehler - charcoal burner
Koelschenweber - clothweaver
Koepfler - pig castrator
Koerb(l)er - basket maker; seller of baskets
Koerner - granary protector; dealer in grains
Koer(t)zener - furrier
Koester, Koesterius - church sexton
Koestner - steward
Koet(h)ner - cottager with a small house, garden and a little land for animals
Koggenbuwer - shipbuilder
Kohlenbrenner, Kohler, Koehler - charcoal burner
Kohlhoeker - greengrocer
Koller - leather harnessmaker
Kolon(e) - settler; farmer of a crop farm with hereditary tithe
Kolonist - settler; colonist
Kolporteur - door-to-door salesman
Koelschenweber - clothweaver
Komiss, Kommerziant, Kommis(s) - merchant's clerk on commission
Kommissarius - clerk on commission
Kompassmacher - compass maker
Konditor - pastry-maker
Konduktor - estate tenant
Konstabler - constable; (mil.) gunner
Konstrukteur - engineer
Kontorbediente(r),Kontorist(in) - clerk; office worker
Koolke - colic
Koopmann - merchant
Kopenhauer - cooper
Kopersmid - coppersmith
Koepfler - pig castrator
Kopfwuestigkeit - influenza
Koppelknecht - horse groom
Kopperschmid - coppersmith
Koerber, Korbflechter, Koebler, Korbmacher - basket weaver
Korduan - shoemaker, with goat's leather
Koerner - granary protector; dealer in grains
Kornfuehrer - grain dealer with a cart
Kornhaendler - grain trader
Kornhausverwalter - granary administrator
Kornmann - granary protector; dealer in grains
Kornmesser - grain measurer
Kornmueller - grain miller
Korssenmeister - furrier
Koer(t)zener - furrier
Kossat(e), Kossatin - cottager with a small house, garden and a little land for animals
Kostgaenger - boarder
Kote - cottager with a small house, garden and a little land for animals
Kot(h)mann - cottager with a small house, garden and a little land for animals
Koet(h)ner - cottager with a small house, garden and a little land for animals
Kotsass, Kotasse, Kotsasse - cottager with a small house, garden and a little land for
animals
Kotter, Koetter - cottager with a small house, garden and a little land for animals
Kotzenmacher - coatmaker
Kotzenweber - loden cloth weaver
Kraemer - merchant; peddler
Kraemper - peddler
Kraeutler- bontanist; pharmacist
Krameramt - shopkeeper's guild
Krammoder - mid-wife
Krankenpfleger(in) - caregiver for the sick
Krankenschwester - female nurse
Krankenwaerter(in) - orderly; practical nurse
Kratzenmacher - basket weaver
Krautkraemer, -kramer - druggist
Krebisser - shell fisherman
Krebsgeschwuer - cancer sore
Kreisrat - county commissioner
Kreisser - forest supervisor
Kremer - grocer; small merchant; shopkeeper
Krenke - epilepsy
Kretschmer, Kretschner - innkeeper
Kreuzschmi(e)d - swordsmith; silversmith
Kreuzwirt(h) - inkeeper of the Cross Inn
Kriebelkrankheit - cramp
Kriegsknecht - mercenary
Krippenmacher - maker of cribs
Kripps, Krips - influenza
Kroeger, Krogmann - innkeeper
Kroemke - peddler
Kronanwalt - attorney general
Kronenwirt(h) - innkeeper of the Crown Inn
Krudener, Kruedener - pharmacist
Krueger - innkeeper
Krueppel - cripple; lame person
Krummholzhaendler - scrub timber dealer
Krueselkerl - tin founder
Kuebler - cooper
Kuechlebaecker, Kuchenbaecker, -baeker - pastry baker
Kuechenmeister - chef; master of the kitchen
Kuechenschreiber - master chef
Kuderer - flax merchant
Kuebler - cooper
Ku(e)her - cowherd; dairyman
Ku(e)hhirt(in) - cowherd
Kuehlmann - field watchman
Kuemmer - cooper
Kuemmichkehrer - chimneysweep
Kuemper - cooper
Kuenstler(in) - artist
Kueper - cooper
Kueperholzmacher - barrelstave maker
Kueppenbender, Kueppers - cooper
Kueppler(in) - matchmaker
Kuerbenzeiner - baskt weaver
Kuerschner - furrier
Kuester(in) - sexton; church custodian; pastor's assistant
Kueter - butcher
Kuefer, Kuffer, Kuefler - cooper
Kuhbauer - farmer with a cow
Kueher, Kuhhirt(e) - male cowherd
Kuhhirtin, Kuehhirtin - female cowherd
Kuhlengraeber - gravedigger
Kuehlmann - field watchman
Kulitze- -furrier
Kummeder - saddler
Kuemmer - cooper
Kumper - tanner
Kuemper - cooper
Kunstdrechsler - (ivory) turner
Kuenstler(in) - artist
Kunstmaler(in) - artist
Kunstmeister - master organ builder
Kuper, Kueper - cooper
Kueperholzmacher - barrel stave maker
Kupferdrucker - copperplate printer
Kupferschmi(e)d - coppersmith
Kupferstecher - copper engraver; etcher
Kueppenbender, Kueppers - cooper
Kueppler(in) - matchmaker
Kuerbenzeiner - basket weaver
Kurdewaener - shoemaker (with cordovan leather)
Kurkeler - corkmaker
Kurschmi(e)d - blacksmith; farrier
Kuerschner, Kursener - furrier
Kuester(in) - sexton
Kueter - butcher
Kutschenbauer - wagonbuilder
Kutscher - coachman
Kuttelwamper - tripe seller
Kutter - cutter
Kuttler - offal seller

L & M DO NOT EXIST

Nachlasspfleger(in) - trustee of estate
Nachlassverwalter(in) - executor; administrator
Nachtwaechter - night watchman (sometimes held in ill repute)
Nadelmacher, Nadelmann - needlemaker
Nadler - needlemaker; haberdasher
Naehdirne - sewing girl
Naeher - seamster
Naeherin - seamstress
Naetler - needlemaker
Nagel, Nagelschmi(e)d, Nagler - nailmaker
Naeher - seamster
Naeherin - seamstress
Naetler - needlemaker
Neiler, Neilschmieder - needlemaker
Nestler - shoelace maker
Netzmacher - (fish) net maker
Neubuaer - farmer on land newly cleared (18th century)
Neubuerger(in), Neub’rger(in) - new citizen
Neuschwander - person living on a newly burnt-out (cleared) place
Neuwohner - new inhabitant
Noldener - needlemaker
Nonne(n)macher - animal castrator
Nosterer - rosary maker
Notar - (government) notary
Noterbe - (mandatory) heir
Nothzeuge - emergency witness
Nottaufe - emergency baptism (by a layman)
Nudelmann - needlemaker
Nuesch(e)ler - belt maker
Nuess(e)ler, - maker of nut oil
Nufeler - tweed maker
Nuldener - needle maker

Obdachlose(r) - homeless person
Obentuerer, Obent’rer - diamond merchant
Oberamtmann - (government) administrator
Oberfeldwebel - warrant officer
Oberfoerster, Oberf÷rster - chief forester
Oberkoch - male master chef
Oberkoechin,- female master chef
Oberkueper - cooper
Obermann - superintendent
Obermeister - master of a guild
Obermueller - miller (at the upper mill)
Oberpfarrer - chief pastor
Oberrabbiner - chief rabbi
Obesser - fruit merchant
Obervogt - chief local government official; bailiff
Oberst - (mil.) colonel
Obmann - chairman
Ob(t)ser - fruit picker
Obstler - fruitpicker; fruit seller
Obstverkaeufer(in) - fruit merchant
Ochsenknecht - oxen tender
Oechsner - small farmer with only oxen, no horses
Oeconom - small farmer; farm manager; steward; innkeeper, economist
Oehler, Oehlmann - oil maker; oil seller
Oekonom - small farmer; farm manager; steward; innkeeper, e
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