Vom Fels zum Meer
EIn Gedicht - aus "Unser Preußen". Vom Fels zum Meer 1. Hoch ragt empor auf felsenfesten Grund Die Zollernburg in altersgrauen Tagen; Sie schaut hinab…
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Lüttichau und das Blind'sche Attentat
Angeblich hat nicht nur Bismarck an Gottes Gnade geglaubt (Graf von Lüttichau in einem Brief von früh 1866). In Berlin hatte gerade das Blind'sche…
Read more →Fuchs-Eier und Schaumwein
A couple of small excerpts, both relating to Marwitz's opinion of the effect of the Hardenberg reforms on Prussian society (Seiten 382 & 386). Das…
Read more →Mollwitz
Purely by coincidence I just started reading about the Battle of Mollwitz in "Ausgewählte Werke Friedrichs des Großen", Erster Band, on the same day…
Read more →Weltbürger
This seemed apposite considering my views of current politics, it was for opinions like this that Marwitz went to Spandau for a short while.
Read more →Friedrich Wilhelms Gymnasium
I've just noticed that my 1794 copy of Campe's Kinder Bibliothek has a library stamp from "Königl. Friedrich Wilhelms Gymnas." which I presume is the…
Read more →Die historische Mühle von Sanssouci
A cutting from a magazine, 1950's maybe?, found in "Ausgewählte Werke Friedrichs des Großen", Erster Band.
Read more →Kamenskoi (Kamensky) - Russian or Prussian?
Russian or Prussian? Hero or Villain? Marwitz states in his memoirs (Seite 210), apparently relating what he had heard from Major (later Field…
Read more →Bellona and the Magic Stick
Time for another Marwitz instalment, this time a couple of small, superstitious observations from 1806. In the lead up to the war with Napoleon (der…
Read more →Hauptmann von Blumenstein
Hauptmann von Blumenstein, billeted with Marwitz in Dresden in 1805, seems like quite the character. Although stereotypically French (lively,…
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