Still going! Still clearing Fritz's valet/chamberlain Fredersdorf's name from the calumny enshrined in wikipedia that he was dismissed for financial irregularities!
just thought maybe Leining didn't have the influence a couple years ago to drive Anderson out, whereas Glasow might have.
True enough. Glasow had massive influence at the latest from 1755 onwards when he was in the Netherlands with Fritz, and if Anderson got suspended shortly before the war, it was at a time of Glasow's ascendancy. Now whether Glasow was actively promoting this depends, I guess, which characterisation of Glasow we believe to be true:
Pretty, well meaning but dumb and easily influenced: Kalckreuth, Nicolai Conniving swine: Lehndorff, Henckel von Donnersmarck, AW (kinda, in that he doesn't mention a confederate)
Fritz sparing ihm the death penalty when Glasow's father asks is open to various interpretations, especially if he did have sex with him, because then a father asking for his son's life to be spared had to hit certain buttons. But it could also mean he's not certain about the treason charge and thinks Glasow probably just embezzled.
One big argument - in my view - for Glasow being capable of actively framing a guy or at least making him look bad is that he had his former servant sent to Spandau under faked orders in most versions of his story when the gig threatens to be up. And that he was rude to the servant in the first place. I said this elsewhere before, but I think Glasow might have been someone coming across very differently to people socially above him (like Fritz or Kalckreuth) than to those below him, and it's the later face that's more revealing.
Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 6 - Translation
Ahhhhh thank you for the translation and this is all fascinating!
because then a father asking for his son's life to be spared had to hit certain buttons.
AGH! Right!
I said this elsewhere before, but I think Glasow might have been someone coming across very differently to people socially above him (like Fritz or Kalckreuth) than to those below him, and it's the later face that's more revealing.
*nods And in contrast to Fredersdorf himself, as you say in one of these comments <3
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Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 6 - Translation
True enough. Glasow had massive influence at the latest from 1755 onwards when he was in the Netherlands with Fritz, and if Anderson got suspended shortly before the war, it was at a time of Glasow's ascendancy. Now whether Glasow was actively promoting this depends, I guess, which characterisation of Glasow we believe to be true:
Pretty, well meaning but dumb and easily influenced: Kalckreuth, Nicolai
Conniving swine: Lehndorff, Henckel von Donnersmarck, AW (kinda, in that he doesn't mention a confederate)
Fritz sparing ihm the death penalty when Glasow's father asks is open to various interpretations, especially if he did have sex with him, because then a father asking for his son's life to be spared had to hit certain buttons. But it could also mean he's not certain about the treason charge and thinks Glasow probably just embezzled.
One big argument - in my view - for Glasow being capable of actively framing a guy or at least making him look bad is that he had his former servant sent to Spandau under faked orders in most versions of his story when the gig threatens to be up. And that he was rude to the servant in the first place. I said this elsewhere before, but I think Glasow might have been someone coming across very differently to people socially above him (like Fritz or Kalckreuth) than to those below him, and it's the later face that's more revealing.
Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 6 - Translation
because then a father asking for his son's life to be spared had to hit certain buttons.
AGH! Right!
I said this elsewhere before, but I think Glasow might have been someone coming across very differently to people socially above him (like Fritz or Kalckreuth) than to those below him, and it's the later face that's more revealing.
*nods And in contrast to Fredersdorf himself, as you say in one of these comments <3