Yes, I forgot to mention he was Lehndorff's wife's uncle! I was half-distracted yesterday because I ended up doing salon during a boring meeting to which I had to give half an ear. That's also why I misspelled it, apparently: "Haeseler" (or Häseler), not "Haesler".

Also, I seem to have gotten the hang on Prussian nobility connections, because the name Häseler sounded instantly familiar, and not from my long ago Hartmann reading;

Go you! I did not catch this until I read Wikipedia.

I'm now imagining August von Haeseler on a rare visit home rolling his eyes and pointing out what that actually means...

Hahaha. Very few envoys seem happy to be envoys! That reminds me, you did have to do that poll about "worst posting" once.