Fur industry

Smokers' merchant bundling the assorted fox skins.
Leipzig, 1950

The fur trade more narrowly, mainly significant intermediary trade, too - tobacco products sector - comprised of various trade and business in the field of extraction, processing and trade of furs . Larger fur clothing companies mostly employ self-employed furriers as so-called intermediate masters (called “piece masters” in the Viennese tobacco industry) who may also conduct private trade. In Germany, the industry has been represented by the German Fur Institute (DPI) since 1987 . The classic place for the industrial processing of fur remnants into semi-finished fur products (tablets, “fodder”, “bodies”) has always been Kastoria and Siatista, about 60 kilometers away in northwestern Greece.

The following traders describe themselves as belonging to the fur industry:

• Furrier
• Fur specialist publisher
• Fur auctioneer
• Fur retailer
• Tobacco Wholesale Merchant
• Tobacco products commission agent
• Fur maker
• Fur maker
• Fur cleaner
• Fur breeders
• Fur refiner
• Fur dresser (fur tanner)
• Fur trimmers

Historical:

• Tail twister

Web links

Commons : Collection of pictures related to professions in the fur industry  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Editor: The Wiener Stückmeister . In: Der Rauchwarenmarkt , No. 9, Leipzig, September 1944, pp. 3-4.