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Fritz & the Hohenzollerns

25 Sunday Apr 2021

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A nice quote from close to the end of Carlyle’s History of Frederick, I now have one volume left to read.

Prussia has been a meritorious Nation; and, however cut and ruined, is and was in a healthy state, capable of recovering soon. Prussia has defended itself against overwhelming odds,–brave Prussia; but the real soul of its merit was that of having merited such a King to command it.

Without this King, all its valors, disciplines, resources of war, would have availed Prussia little. No wonder Prussia has still a loyalty to its great Friedrich, to its Hohenzollern Sovereigns generally.

Without these Hohenzollerns, Prussia had been, what we long ago saw it, the unluckiest of German Provinces; and could never have had the pretension to exist as a Nation at all.

Without this particular Hohenzollern, it had been trampled out again, after apparently succeeding. To have achieved a Friedrich the Second for King over it, was Prussia’s grand merit.

Sad that within 60 years of writing this (1865 or so) Prussia as a nation would be no more and the Hohenzollerns in exile.

I wonder about the Windsors…

Otto Christoph von Podewils

27 Monday Apr 2020

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Otto Christoph von Podewils in der Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung.

Jetzt kenne ich zwei Kolberger; Otto Christoph von Podewils und Joachim Nettelbeck (ich lese zurzeit Joachim Nettelbeck, Bürger zu Kolberg).
Von Podewils war auch mit einer von der Marwitz verheiratet, eine kleine Welt…

Monbijou Print

03 Friday Apr 2020

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I’m pleased with the small print I received yesterday of Schloß Monbijou, dating to about 1833, the downside is that due to this Corona lunacy the picture framer is closed until further notice.

Kneipe Freitag

11 Friday Oct 2019

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Endlich Freitag, ich gehe auch in die Kneipe…

Bezecht und Spleenig

23 Monday Jul 2018

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Thanks Fritz, but he probably has a point…

“Man muß ein Engländer, bezecht und spleenig sein, um Gefallen daran zu finden”

— Friedrich II, Brief an Prinzessin Wilhelmine von Oranien, 25 Oktober 1774 (über das englische Theater).

Warnung!

17 Sunday Dec 2017

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This little announcement in the Teltower Kreisblatt from 13th December 1856, tucked away amidst all the Christmas adverts, made me laugh:

In essence: “I hereby warn everyone not to lend my wife money, or anything else, as I won’t pay for it”, there’s a heart-warming Christmas story behind that somewhere.

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