So there's a very good chance editing was happening when Catt was 1) pissed off at Fritz, 2) sucking up to FW.
German wiki - but not English wiki - tells me about Catt that „1789 ernannte ihn der König Friedrich Wilhelm II. zum Kantor der Stiftskirche St. Sebastian in Magdeburg“, so basically: gave him a job after the memoirs were written. German wiki also tells me that Catt‘s brother in law Pierre Jerèmie Hainchelin, who died in 1787, was, before becoming a highly regarded and high ranking Prussian civil servant, the personal secretary of, wait for it, AW until AW‘s death. Which presumably is why in the memoirs, Fritz just happens to declare that if AW instead of „evil advisors“ would have had only honest folk like Hainchelin with him, his life would have been calmer and his mind would not have been set against Fritz at all.
*am not sure whether I‘m side-eying Catt or Fritz more now*
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Date: 2020-01-07 09:29 pm (UTC)German wiki - but not English wiki - tells me about Catt that „1789 ernannte ihn der König Friedrich Wilhelm II. zum Kantor der Stiftskirche St. Sebastian in Magdeburg“, so basically: gave him a job after the memoirs were written. German wiki also tells me that Catt‘s brother in law Pierre Jerèmie Hainchelin, who died in 1787, was, before becoming a highly regarded and high ranking Prussian civil servant, the personal secretary of, wait for it, AW until AW‘s death. Which presumably is why in the memoirs, Fritz just happens to declare that if AW instead of „evil advisors“ would have had only honest folk like Hainchelin with him, his life would have been calmer and his mind would not have been set against Fritz at all.
*am not sure whether I‘m side-eying Catt or Fritz more now*