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aaaaaand it's time for a new discussion post! :D (you guys are so fast!)

Re: Valory and Mantteuffel

Date: 2021-02-15 04:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] selenak
Stratemann's successor reporting home to Braunschweig that reality looks somewhat different is as good an idea as any. As to whether Stratemann was still envoy after 1733, or retired, here's what Richard Wolff says in the preface:

Stratemann muß es verstanden haben, dank seiner guten Beziehungen in Berlin, die Braunschweiger Regierung stets zufriedenzustellen; denn bei dem nachmaligen wiederholten Regierungswechsel wurde in den jedesmal neu ausgestellten Creditiven stets auf seine langjährigen dem braunschweigischen Staate treu geleisteten Dienste rühmend hingewiesen. Auch die fortgesetzte Steigerung seines Gehaltes (während er sich zuerst mit 200 Reichstalern begnügen mußte, stiegen seine jährlichen Einnahmen aus der braunschweigischen Staatskasse schließlich bis auf 700 Taler) und seine am 26. Mai 1734 erfolgte Bestallung zum Geheimen Legationsrat bekunden, daß er dem
Braunschweiger Hofe achtbare Dienste geleistet hatte. Am 1. Januar 1739 starb er in einem Alter von mehr als 72 Jahren.


So basically yes, and he kept getting salary raises and promotions, presumably to go along with the glowing reports on how well Hohenzollern family life was doing.

...there is just one fly in an otherwise perfect ointment. At this point, I think Charlotte's husband was Duke. Charlotte as in Fritz' sister, the very one who mocked EC mercilessly and made the crack about bad smells and ulcers in her after. Somehow I can't see Charlotte's husband believing reports on how EC has great influence on Fritz?

Re: Valory and Mantteuffel

Date: 2021-02-15 04:11 pm (UTC)
mildred_of_midgard: (Default)
From: [personal profile] mildred_of_midgard
Maybe not, but the envoy reports are addressed to the minister, are they not? So that would presumably be who the "you" is.

Re: Valory and Mantteuffel

Date: 2021-02-15 04:19 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] selenak
Point taken. Stratemann: the official Disney version chronicler of the Hohenzollern Home Life. I really don't envoy his successor having to explain why EC writes letters about feeling like a prisoner back home...

Re: Valory and Mantteuffel

Date: 2021-02-15 04:59 pm (UTC)
mildred_of_midgard: (Default)
From: [personal profile] mildred_of_midgard
Me neither. Though I think we have a good possible culprit, especially given the timing.

don't envoy his successor

Can I just say I love this typo? :D

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