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Hertzberg does indeed; he and Heinrich hated each other's guts, and Hertzberg was one of the key factors why FW2 froze Heinrich out politically pretty much from the get go. He even tried to make trouble on a personal, non political level when it came to Fritz' legacy. Now, FW, as early as 1733, had put it in writing in a donation act dated September 1st 1733 that if AW or his descendants became King, Wusterhausen (until then a crown possession) would go to Heinrich, and if Heinrich died without children, to Ferdinand and his children. Fritz did nothing to gainsay that, but Hertzberg told FW2 that this was vague enough and Wusterhausen should remain with the crown. FW2 showed that letter to Heinrich, who commented the intention of the author was easily discernable, i.e. enstrange him and his nephew, and since he, Heinrich had no children, he'd never sue his beloved nephew and would of course step back, despite the fact that FW's intentions re: Wusterhausen had been legally clear. That basically did it in terms of Wusterhausen. But not so much in terms of politics. (Looking up Ziebura again for this, btw, shows me that Lehndorff, who'd always liked FW2 a lot, had come to Berlin and like Heinrich had hoped to a return to office (well not Queen's Chamberlain office! an interesting office!), but was also sent home disappointed, and I guess (Ziebura doesn't say so) this might have been because he was known as Heinrich's friend and Hertzberg, Bischofswerder and possibly FW2 himself were paranoid about Heinrich making a power grabbing move.