Schneider
The cutter of cloth, the needle that helped clothe a continent.
- Origin
- German
- Famous bearer
- Romy Schneider (1938–1982), actress
- Register
- German family
The seat of Schneider
Seat vacantChief
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Current mission
No shared goal set yet. Once Schneider has leadership, it sets the public focus: a restoration, a gathering, a real-world project that helps its own.
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Help rebuild the Schneider clan →What does the Schneider name mean?
The tailor, literally 'the cutter', from Middle High German snīden, to cut cloth. One of the great guild trades of the German towns, and one of the most characteristic surnames carried by both German-Christian and German-Jewish families.
The history of Schneider
Cloth was costly and a coat was expected to last a lifetime, so the man who could cut and fit it held a real place in the town. The tailors' guild was among the most numerous and jealous of its standing, and the trade gave one of the commonest German surnames, in two streams that ran side by side for centuries: the German-Christian Schneider and the German-Jewish Schneider.
Both streams carried the needle to the New World, and there it built something enormous. The skilled immigrant tailor, very often a Schneider, was the raw material of the American ready-to-wear industry, the cutting rooms and garment houses of New York and Chicago that clothed a nation off the peg for the first time. A trade that had dressed one German town at a time learned, in immigrant hands, to dress a continent.
The castles of the homeland
The great strongholds of the homeland, look one up, see what it looked like in its prime, and recreate it to explore.
Neuschwanstein CastleStill standing · prime 1886
Hohenzollern CastleRestored · prime 1867
Eltz CastleStill standing · prime 1615All castles in Germany → · Strongest castles in Germany → · Castles of Europe
Play As Your Clan
Hold a real castle against whatever you choose to send at it, take a ship out in her own service years, or stand at the shoulder of someone the record remembers. The chronicler sets the scene; the deeds are yours.
Notable bearers of the Schneider name
- Romy Schneider (1938–1982), actress