Rabatzen

Under rabatzen , also occasionally called rabitz, also scraping , the fur dresser ( fur tanner) in Germany understands the shedding of the fur fat by machines or manual scraping, i.e. the removal of the fat from the leather after the pelt has been peeled off. If this operation is not carried out sufficiently, the skins will heat up during storage due to oxidation of the remaining fat. In a kind of gluing process, these bodies harden, they will be deemed rohverbrannt or boiler from contamination designated. With modern methods of dresser is in some furs now able, for example, in Zuchtnerzfellen to rabatzen so perfect that actually succeeding meats is practically done with. The skins then have such a clean, parchment-like leather that they can then be milled and tanned directly.

In Austria Rabatzen is the name given to the fur leather that runs through hair. In the case of skins from animals that are very well fed, the skin remains softer and looser and the hair sits deeper in the skin, it is then visible on the leather side.

Even if the hair is degreased too much during dressing, or if it is stored for a long time in a warm place, the hair goes through to the leather side, in Austrian experts it is said that the fur is scratched.

Historical

During the Second World War , in August 1943, the Reichsstelle für Rauchwaren, Fachgruppe 29 ( Tobacco Products and Furs) requested the fur trimmers to immediately investigate and smear raw sheepskins and lambskins ( weft pelts (committee) ) that arise during the manipulation To sell effect exclusively to certain, named companies. These had received the order from the Reichsstelle to produce edging leather for Wehrmacht purposes.

Individual evidence

^ Christian Franke / Johanna Kroll: Jury Fränkel's Rauchwaren-Handbuch 1988/89 . 10. revised and supplemented new edition, Rifra-Verlag Murrhardt, pp. 402, 403
↑ ^a ^b Alexander Tuma: Pelzlexikon . XX. Volume, Verlag Alexander Tuma, Vienna 1950, keyword Rabatzen
↑ A. Ginzel: skin and leather of nutria fur . In: All about fur , issue 10, Rhenania-Fachverlag, Koblenz 1976, p. 57
^ UH Dienstmann: The meat . In: All about fur , issue 11, Rhenania-Fachverlag, Cologne November 1976, p. 10
↑ Roughly burned sheepskins and lambskins. In: Deutsche Kürschner Zeitschrift and Kürschner Zeitung, war community edition . Arthur Heber & Co, Carl Bold, Berlin and Alexander Duncker, Leipzig, August 1943, p. 26

[Fränkel-1] Christian Franke / Johanna Kroll: Jury Fränkel's Rauchwaren-Handbuch 1988/89 . 10. revised and supplemented new edition, Rifra-Verlag Murrhardt, pp. 402, 403

[Pelzlexikon-2] Alexander Tuma: Pelzlexikon . XX. Volume, Verlag Alexander Tuma, Vienna 1950, keyword Rabatzen

[3] A. Ginzel: skin and leather of nutria fur . In: All about fur , issue 10, Rhenania-Fachverlag, Koblenz 1976, p. 57

[4] UH Dienstmann: The meat . In: All about fur , issue 11, Rhenania-Fachverlag, Cologne November 1976, p. 10

[5] Roughly burned sheepskins and lambskins. In: Deutsche Kürschner Zeitschrift and Kürschner Zeitung, war community edition . Arthur Heber & Co, Carl Bold, Berlin and Alexander Duncker, Leipzig, August 1943, p. 26