Asseburg: There's a Johann Ludwig von Asseburg, who is probably the Major in the Gens d'armes that Nicolai refers to, for the Sachsen-Anhalt archive has:
- Schreiben des Johann Ludwig von der Asseburg an Hans Hermann von Katte d. Ä., 1730 - Anzeige des Tods des Hans Hermann von Katte d. J. durch Hans Hermann von Katte d. Ä. an Johann Ludwig von der Asseburg, 1730-1914
Did I mention I found facsimiles of Katte's last letters tonight? Not the Puncta, but the letters to FW, Grandpa Wartensleben, his father, and Grumbkow. And the one to his father contains the last requests that include "please make sure my younger brother gets a good theological education at Halle" that selenak found a reference to in Hans Heinrich's letter and that prinzsorgenfrei and I were just chatting about in email 2 days ago! Prinzsorgenfrei wrote, "It would also be interesting to know if Hans Hermann's original letter to the family survived somewhere since the last letter we know from different publications doesn't include the line about Albrecht or the line about asking his father to pay his debts "so nobody will sigh about him".
I haven't seen the debts mentioned, but as I said to Prinzsorgenfrei, I haven't had time to do a careful transcription yet, and my sight-reading of Kurrent is not great (although whoever wrote these documents has lovely handwriting, which is why I'm able to do any sight-reading at all).
It looks like this letter was dictated in the 3rd person as bullet points (I assume to Pastor Müller), and there's also a sermon that I think Katte wants preached to the Gens d'armes after his death. I don't remember if we ran into this; I do remember that he had a sermon (probably a similar one) that he wanted preached to the garrison church in Küstrin, and Pastor Müller asked FW if it was okay, and FW vetoed it. The one that was meant for the Gens d'armes is ringing a faint bell, but I could be just conflating the two.
[ETA: I am transcribing it, and it looks like Katte specifically asked Müller to give the sermon to the Gens d'Armes, which reminds me that Müller was the preacher in Berlin, not in Küstrin (that was Besser). Right. So this is one and the same sermon, and thus I think Selena's speculation that Katte meant to smuggle out a message to Fritz in Küstrin was the result of confusion. Also, this has to be Müller taking dictation; he writes, "that I, on my return to Berlin, in the first sermon to the Gens d'Armes regiment..."]
Oh, hey, there's a "Gesuche der verwitweten Frau Generalfeldmarschall Gräfin von Katte, geborene von Bredow, in Sachen der Erbschaft ihrer Söhne." 1748-1752. I wonder if it has more details on the fraternal duel! Or the marriage to Lehndorff's one who got away! *adds to wishlist*
Huh, so in 1733, FW is writing to Hans Heinrich's brother, in his capacity as chamber president at Magdeburg, concerning an estate purchased for Prince August Ferdinand, who I might remind you is 3 years old right now.
Okay, if I can ever stop getting sidetracked by Keiths and Kattes, I might go back to looking up this Asseburg guy. Posting what I have for now.
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Various Katte findings
Date: 2023-05-11 04:44 am (UTC)- Schreiben des Johann Ludwig von der Asseburg an Hans Hermann von Katte d. Ä., 1730
- Anzeige des Tods des Hans Hermann von Katte d. J. durch Hans Hermann von Katte d. Ä. an Johann Ludwig von der Asseburg, 1730-1914
Did I mention I found facsimiles of Katte's last letters tonight? Not the Puncta, but the letters to FW, Grandpa Wartensleben, his father, and Grumbkow. And the one to his father contains the last requests that include "please make sure my younger brother gets a good theological education at Halle" that
I haven't seen the debts mentioned, but as I said to Prinzsorgenfrei, I haven't had time to do a careful transcription yet, and my sight-reading of Kurrent is not great (although whoever wrote these documents has lovely handwriting, which is why I'm able to do any sight-reading at all).
It looks like this letter was dictated in the 3rd person as bullet points (I assume to Pastor Müller), and there's also a sermon that I think Katte wants preached to the Gens d'armes after his death. I don't remember if we ran into this; I do remember that he had a sermon (probably a similar one) that he wanted preached to the garrison church in Küstrin, and Pastor Müller asked FW if it was okay, and FW vetoed it. The one that was meant for the Gens d'armes is ringing a faint bell, but I could be just conflating the two.
[ETA: I am transcribing it, and it looks like Katte specifically asked Müller to give the sermon to the Gens d'Armes, which reminds me that Müller was the preacher in Berlin, not in Küstrin (that was Besser). Right. So this is one and the same sermon, and thus I think Selena's speculation that Katte meant to smuggle out a message to Fritz in Küstrin was the result of confusion. Also, this has to be Müller taking dictation; he writes, "that I, on my return to Berlin, in the first sermon to the Gens d'Armes regiment..."]
Oh, hey, there's a "Gesuche der verwitweten Frau Generalfeldmarschall Gräfin von Katte, geborene von Bredow, in Sachen der Erbschaft ihrer Söhne." 1748-1752. I wonder if it has more details on the fraternal duel! Or the marriage to Lehndorff's one who got away! *adds to wishlist*
Huh, so in 1733, FW is writing to Hans Heinrich's brother, in his capacity as chamber president at Magdeburg, concerning an estate purchased for Prince August Ferdinand, who I might remind you is 3 years old right now.
Okay, if I can ever stop getting sidetracked by Keiths and Kattes, I might go back to looking up this Asseburg guy. Posting what I have for now.