Schnitzer is a German noun meaning "carver" and is the surname of: Eduard Schnitzer, physician, naturalist and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile Florian Schnitzer, German ice hockey player Friedrich Ferdinand Schnitzer, 19th-century Bavarian-American architect Germaine Schnitzer, French pianist based in America Sam Schnitzer, Russian-Jewish immigrant to America, founder of Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc., American steel manufacturing company. Wikipedia