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[Editor's Note: Two responses to this query follow.] 1. Submitted by: Renate Bridenthal (rbriden1@juno.com) Dear Sisters, Thought someone -- Belinda? women of little means? - could help here. -Renate 2. Submitted by: Gerald Feldman (gfeld@socrates.berkeley.edu) There are two German dissertations on Kleinrentner, one by Elfriede Schroeter, Das Kleinrentnerproblem in Grosss-Berlin: Eine Darstellung der Lebenshaltung (auf Grund einer Enquete) von 300 Kleinrentnern (1929); the other is by Eitel-Georg Kopp, Das Kleinrentnerproblem (1926). A kleinrentner in my economic dictionary is described as a "small fundholder," which I guess is the same as a small rentier. I cannot find kapitalrentner, but my guess would be that such a person does not have to be "small" but is living off the interest on capital investment. Presumably, a Kleinrentner could also be a pensioner, whereas the Kapitalrentner really is living from capital investment in a broader sense. The latter would therefore be a Rentier and perhaps not so likely to be a woman. Hopefully someone else is tuned in who does not have to guess. Anyway, the Kleinrentner sound like a great subject in women's history. -Gerald D. Feldman
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