Cattle dealer

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Cattle dealer on the Gallimarkt in Leer

As Drover (formerly particular: Ochs traders ) are persons or companies which, cattle buy and sell again.

activities

Many livestock dealers specialize in the marketing of livestock and slaughter. Are marketed z. B. cows, heifers, bulls, calves, sheep, goats and pigs. A dealer must be knowledgeable about animal welfare and the prevention of animal diseases .

education

In Switzerland, a cattle dealer license is a prerequisite for practicing the profession. To do this, introductory courses must be attended and an examination by a cantonal veterinary office must be taken. The granting of patents is regulated by the federal government and the cantonal veterinary authorities. Cattle dealers need enough knowledge of the animals being handled to be able to determine their weight and the condition of the animal with regard to disease or injury.

anti-Semitism

The National Socialists had a decidedly negative impact on the reputation of cattle dealers.

"The cattle trade is a rogue trade."

- Adolf Scherer: From the beginnings of the Hessian Raiffeisenism . Kassel 1941

See also

• Ox path
• Animal transport
• Farmers market
• Usury
• Humberghaus , local museum of a cross-generational family of Jewish cattle dealers and their persecution

literature

• Ekkehard Westermann (Ed.): International ox trade (1350-1750). Files of the 7th International Economic History Congress, Edinburgh 1978. Klett-Cotta, 1978 ISBN 3-12-912690-2
• Stefanie Fischer: Economic trust and anti-Semitic violence. Jewish cattle dealers in Middle Franconia 1919–1939. Wallstein, Göttingen 2014 ISBN 978-3-8353-1239-5

Web links

Wiktionary: Cattle dealer  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Cattle and meat trade. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , 20. Leipzig 1909, pp. 144–146
• Hans Stadler: cattle trade. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Livestock trade - information from the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office
• Job description at berufsberatung.ch of the Swiss Service Center, an institution of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Education Directors EDK

Individual evidence

1. ↑ berufsberatung.ch
2. ↑ Katja Bauer: The contribution of the Raiffeisen cooperatives to overcoming usury. (= Cooperation and cooperative contributions from the Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 31) Dissertation. Münster 1993 ISBN 3-7923-0660-3 p. 51
3. ↑ date! Up until 1933, many cattle dealers in southern and western Germany were of the Jewish faith , the quote is anti-Semitic .