Jerry Frank wrote: > > "Charles A. Shultz, Jr." <cashultz@ghg.net> wrote: > > >Can someone tell me what a Schmalzer is? Am I correct in assuming these > >are occupations and Schumacher is shoemaker and Werkmeister is foreman? > > Schmalz = fat or lard. Schmalzer would be one who works with this but not > sure what exactly he would do with it. Does your Schmalzer have dots over the a? Schm"alzer can be a spelling variant of Schmelzer. A Schmelzer is a smelter, a melting furnace worker. -- Helge Robitzsch hrobi@math.uni-goettingen.de