Word: meisterbrief
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Among the posters of stylish models on the walls of Michaela Pütz's Bonn hairdressing salon hangs her Meisterbrief - the master craftsman's diploma that all German artisans must acquire before they set up their own businesses. The 40-year-old Pütz got hers 12 years ago, by attending six months of all-day classes on business management and crafts law at a cost of more than €12,000. Pütz's 21-year-old apprentice Susan, however, may not need to cram for a master's exam; the qualification, which dates back...
After a war Peter's lift was a mixture of shoe and boot making and visits to nearby Roseheim where he courted his wife, alias Mama, alias The Boss. (She denies the last titles). In 1921 Peter was awarded his Meisterbrief and became one of the youngest master shoemakers in Bavaria. But bringing up two children in inflation-ridden Germany was too much of a job on shoemaker's money, so Peter decided, in 1924, to emigrate to the United States where one of his sisters lived...
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