As of: January 31, 2024, 4:38 p.m
By: Michael Seeholzer
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“I’m no longer involved in the slaughter.
But in the butcher shop there are so many other things to do,” says Korbinian Kammerloher (89), who is still a pillar of the Grafinger business.
“If you think about whether you did something wrong afterwards, then you have already done something wrong.
Korbinian Kammerloher (89), master butcher © Stefan Rossmann
Korbinian Kammerloher from Grafing is a master butcher.
And he will be 90 years old in a few days.
He still practices his job, day after day, with full passion.
Grafing
– It’s 8:30 a.m.
Korbinian Kammerloher sits in the kitchen and makes a snack.
Grafinger's working day began at 8 a.m.
Like every day.
“I usually work until 2 p.m.,” he reports.
“I have had a six-day week since 1948.
It used to be that way and it has stayed the same.” Kammerloher will be 90 years old in a few days.
He worked as a butcher all his life, founded his own business as a young master and still enjoys working.
“I’ve already reduced the hours,” he admits.
Who could blame him?
“I’m no longer involved in the slaughter.
But in the butcher shop there are so many other things that need to be done.
He helps his son Korbinian Jr., who is already 60 years old and took over the traditional business on Münchener Straße in Grafing in 1996.
But the senior is still a pillar of the company.
“You can live to be 90 years old even with meat and sausage”
“You can live to be 90 years old even with meat and sausage,” says the junior and grins.
Kammerloher senior is rather stocky, but still surprisingly strong and wide awake.
“I never had time for sports.” Of course, the old bones sometimes cause problems.
“Until 2 p.m., that’s enough, then you’re done,” he reports.
But there is always time to play cards at the innkeeper in Straussdorf, visit the regulars' table or go on a trip.
Even if the companions from the past, with whom the “Kurbi” always enjoyed traveling, are becoming fewer and fewer due to age.
His wife Resi has also died.
Kammerloher is a native of Markt Indersdorf.
The parents had a farm there where all the siblings had to help.
When the work on the farm was well organized, Kammerloher's father said: “Now someone could actually learn a trade.” So it came about that the profession of butcher was chosen for “Kurbi”.
He wasn't asked for long.
Via newspaper advertisement to Grafing
The young craftsman came to Grafing in 1963 because he read in a newspaper advertisement that a butcher's shop was being leased here for health reasons.
It was a few steps away from today's production facility.
After five years, the junior manager there continued to run the business himself and Kammerloher set up his own butcher shop.
“I bought a property with an old house on it.” Grafing was already a good business location back then.
“It took a year for the plan to be approved and the construction time also took a year,” says Kammerloher senior.
remind.
Back then, St. Bureaucrat was not exactly the patron saint of those who wanted to start a business.
Production began in-house in 1969, and 13 long years passed from 1971 to 1984 until the slaughterhouse was finally approved in its current form, as it is still operated today.
The 90-year-old remembers this clearly.
“It can be in the newspaper,” he still says angrily today.
“If you think about whether you did something wrong afterwards, then you have already done something wrong.
Korbinian Kammerloher (89), master butcher
Have the guild and the requirements changed over the decades?
“There used to be less walk-in customers and customers were more loyal.
Today they go everywhere and that’s okay,” reports Kammerloher from his long professional experience.
“Back then there were people who bought exactly the same thing every week.” He also likes to eat meat.
“Certainly more than the average person,” he says.
It can also be a little fatter, even with beef.
The 90-year-old knows that there are substances in it that are good for the joints.
“Nowadays, people prefer to eat something lean.” However, when men go shopping, “it can be a little fatter,” says Kammerloher, winking.
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“Nowhere is there as much boiled meat eaten as in Grafing”
Since the junior took over the company, he has been running the business and production; the senior has faded into the background over the years.
“It works well when everyone works together.” The Grafingers seem to like a hearty meal more often.
“Nowhere is so much meat eaten as in Grafing,” reports Kammerloher Sr.
Not only are there rolls with cabbage, but also offal, for example at the innkeeper in Straussdorf.
The “Kurbi” doesn’t need to celebrate his 90th birthday anywhere, “because they all come to my house,” he says of his circle of friends.
He has traveled before.
“But vacation can also be stressful.
You're actually supposed to relax.
Some people need a vacation again after their vacation.”
Kammerloher Sr. regrets that he was and is a butcher all his life.
not even though he didn't have the greatest say in his career choice.
“In the past, your parents might have given you your first bike, but you had to earn everything else yourself.
I liked the job and then I thought: I'll just stick with it now." He wasn't the type of person "who wants something big."
That's why the operation remained manageable "with few staff".
Earning money by working with your hands was difficult, “but I had a good time.”
The soon-to-be 90-year-old believes he is still a positive person.
“If you think about whether you did something wrong afterwards, then you have already done something wrong,” he philosophizes.
Then we go back to the slaughterhouse.
Work calls.
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