Peddler

As a peddler walking from house to house traders are referred to. They offer as opposed to the commercial agent or commercial travelers who are traveling on behalf of a company to its own range of goods on their own account. At the present time apply to peddlers in Germany, the provisions for a front door business and they need a travel business card.

History

Previously it was the name peddlers also for providers of services, such as tinkers and scissors sharpener. For specialized peddlers existed own names and individual ethnic groups, specializing in certain ranges of goods:

• Bot a peddler entertaining writings or sensational content to, he was a colporteur.
• Haberdashery were the preferred products offered especially Jewish peddler.
• In particular, in northwestern Germany the so-called Kiepenkerle were known.

During the performance of his duties the peddler, or hawker transported his goods under its own power with the wheelbarrow or cart, in a back pack basket or a bag or cross- over cast, he offered them in a vendor's tray. As social advancement was a dog sled, bicycle, horse and cart and the time of increasing mechanization an automobile.

Peddlers often belonged to ethnic minorities and were Gypsies, Jews or Jeni. They were an integral part of the rural social structure in particular, we focused on her quite desirable, often herbeigesehntes Come one. One of its most important secondary functions was that they brought news and information from the wider community. The peddler is therefore an important figure in the drama, for example, Jacquier ( Michel Simon ) It happened in broad daylight or Jéricho (Pierre Renoir) in The Children of Paradise.

Similar Commercial

Today's Emerging and usually more intrusive form of peddling in Germany is called oppressors. Here, by traveling columns often magazine subscriptions, sold memberships in a club or alleged disability products on behalf of a company.

A name for outpatient retailer with market stalls is flying merchants.