Given female Marwitz the mistress of Wilhelmine's husband, that's a given. :)
But yes, point taken about it still being possible there were two pages Marwitz. BTW, the Georg Wilhelm wiki entry wasn't there two years ago! I know because I looked up every Marwitz when searching for a first name, until capitulating and coming up with the Antony nickname.
Dying-in-1759 Marwitz is known to Fritz and Heinrich as just "Marwitz", no qualification needed (and given the size of that family, that's something!).
Indeed - don't forget, also serving in the 7 Years War is the Marwitz who according to legend will refuse the dishonorable order to sack Hubertusburg! So if Fritz assumes Heinrich will know immediately which Marwitz he means, there has to be a personal relevance to both of them there which does argue in favour of dying-in-1759 Quartermaster Marwitz being identical with Marwiz of the 1746 letters.
Wikipedia says Marwitz the memoir-writer is whitewashing his relative's fate by not having him arrested, but how much you want to bet Wikipedia just blindly trusts Catt?
There's undeniably that. BTW, I have another theory for the age problem: the war. I mean, if 16 years old Heinrich is considered ready to fight in the second Silesian War, and has a page with him (who gets shot in the head, poor guy), what do you want to bet Fritz brought his pages with him as well? Because of the war, the normal transition (and replacement of older/too old pages by younger pages) doesn't happen because everyone is fighting in the army anyway, and given Fritz' life style, I wouldn't be surprised if one of his pages died as well in that war. Which is why Marwitz in February and March 1746 at age 22 is still a page, what with the war having ended officially not until the end of December 1745.
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Re: Inconclusive Marwitz detective work
Date: 2021-06-05 04:38 pm (UTC)Given female Marwitz the mistress of Wilhelmine's husband, that's a given. :)
But yes, point taken about it still being possible there were two pages Marwitz. BTW, the Georg Wilhelm wiki entry wasn't there two years ago! I know because I looked up every Marwitz when searching for a first name, until capitulating and coming up with the Antony nickname.
Dying-in-1759 Marwitz is known to Fritz and Heinrich as just "Marwitz", no qualification needed (and given the size of that family, that's something!).
Indeed - don't forget, also serving in the 7 Years War is the Marwitz who according to legend will refuse the dishonorable order to sack Hubertusburg! So if Fritz assumes Heinrich will know immediately which Marwitz he means, there has to be a personal relevance to both of them there which does argue in favour of dying-in-1759 Quartermaster Marwitz being identical with Marwiz of the 1746 letters.
Wikipedia says Marwitz the memoir-writer is whitewashing his relative's fate by not having him arrested, but how much you want to bet Wikipedia just blindly trusts Catt?
There's undeniably that. BTW, I have another theory for the age problem: the war. I mean, if 16 years old Heinrich is considered ready to fight in the second Silesian War, and has a page with him (who gets shot in the head, poor guy), what do you want to bet Fritz brought his pages with him as well? Because of the war, the normal transition (and replacement of older/too old pages by younger pages) doesn't happen because everyone is fighting in the army anyway, and given Fritz' life style, I wouldn't be surprised if one of his pages died as well in that war. Which is why Marwitz in February and March 1746 at age 22 is still a page, what with the war having ended officially not until the end of December 1745.