Dienstbote

Dienstbote one is constant in the household living employee auxiliary worker for work in that House- and Agriculture. Still in the middle 19. to center 20. Century, the occupation of the dienstboten was far common in German worker circles.

After an inquiry in Berlin were 1882 96.8% of the dienstboten of female sex. In the future the portion of the in such a way specified rose Housemaid still. The housemaids were mainly in well situierten civil households employed. There they were responsible for any housework: They deseamed, cooked, went buy, received the attendance, cared for the children etc.. The working day was often very long, over 16 hours was no rarity, the food and logis against it often very meagerly. Housemaids had their own room only very rarely, mostly they divided a small chamber with several dienstboten, or they slept in the kitchen or directly vorm bedrooms of the rule. The remuneration was moderate for the time and amounted to on average between 150 and 250 Marks annually. Factory hand inside more earned, but these had to pay also meals and rent of the money.

The occupation housemaids was arduous and it was dependent on the sympathetic consideration of the rule. Legally their situation was hardly secured, it entered Gesinderecht, but described rather the rights of the rule and obligations of the dienstboten as turned around.

See also

• Gesinde
• House personnel, Outer pair
• Farmhand, Servant, Lakai
• Farm servant, Zofe
• Moonlighting