Dear Peggy,
Just put the blame on me.
Heinrich Munk had claimed Schroeder was a joiner, not a tailor.
That forced a lengthy extract from me, out of several etymological
dictionaries to prove that
Schroeder is
a) a tailor
b) a coiner
c) someone who loads barrels on �nd off, especially the lorry driver who
did the transport of beer and wine barrels
d) in vinegrowing regions a civil engineer surveying the offloading and
storing into cellars of the vinestock
e) in alemannian (south west Germany, Switzerland) a woodcutter
quoted from
a) Horst Naumann, Das grosse Buch der Familiennamen, Alter Herkunft,
Bedeutung
(great book of family names, age, origin, meaning)
Falken Verlag E. Sicker, Niedernhausen/Taunus 1994, 320 pages, ISBN
3-8068-4781-9
b) Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher, Etymologisches Woerterbuch der
Deutschen Familiennamen,
C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg/Lahn 1963, 2 volumes at 788 & 880 pages,
ISBN 3-7980-0355-6
and the statement that 2 % of the German population is called Schroeder,
is from the dtv-Atlas Namenkunde,
Vor- und Familiennamen im deutschen Sprachgebiet (first and last names
in the German spoken region),
Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Muenchen 1999, 240 pages, ISBN
3-423-03234-0
Sincerely yours
Falk Liebezeit, Diepholz