Fredrick in his youth was fond of French culture, to a degree that his boorish and possibly insane father...

his dad looks like an effeminate soyboy.
why is he wearing armor, its the common soldier that actually fought and was armored. Royalty is filled with posers, attempting to be as masculine as their subjects.

being depicted in a suit of armor for a regal painting is like wearing a tuxedo for a portrait photograph you dumb american

>why is he wearing armor, its the common soldier that actually fought and was armored
the common soldier was an unarmored pikeman/musketeer

they were always seen as such by neighbours since they loved decadence,food,art and all that to a really faggy extend.
Success breeds jealousy, youre probably some poor eastern euro whose country got constantly gangbanged by russia and germany right?
Being a faggy artist in Prussia wasnt an easy life for anyone desu. Theres a reason why Napoleon said "Prussians hatch from cannonballs"

>Although I should say, by the time he ascended the throne, Frederick II had dropped his interest in culture
How can you be so wrong?

>Success breeds jealousy
keep your shithole of a country. abomination

>yeah man pain this picture of me in armor i will never wear other than for this painting
He just wanted to look masculine, and was obviously frustrated at how weak and flabby he was compared to the average rugged, muscular manly commoner ( whom his spouse lusted after)
Ended up taking that repressed anger out on his son.

>self titled himself "the soldier" even though he never took part in any war on the ground, just hid in his castle
*inhales*

depressing

...

He's confusing pomp and culture. Frederick's association with Voltaire and his musical talents are well known.

And yet people will always remember Fredrick and not his father

>Royalty is filled with posers, attempting to be as masculine as their subjects.

Trinitarians aren't royalty - they're hell-bound slaves posing as Kings.

youtube.com/watch?v=H7AvHOKFc9c

>barbarians are barbaric
Whats new?

>as a loser

Where'da fook is Flandre in this pic?

Proofs

At this time, only cuirassiers and important officers still wore armor. For good reason, since it protected from musketballs, just at too high a cost and weight to make it viable for an entire army.

Bls eggsplain picture

as a genius

buump

Germans aren't human

The Soldier King has a worse reputation than he deserves.

He was „a representative of a reactionary class-line within German history“, and "he personally contributed to the role of Brandenburg-Prussia as the most baleful among the states on German territory". Thus the verdict of GDR-Historian Heinz Kathe in 1978.
He was "the first protector and promoter of human rights in the 18th century", and he "made Prussia the most progressive state in Europe", said the federal German publicist Wolfgang Venohr 1988.
Rarely was a personality seen more ambiguously than the "Soldier King", Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia, who ascended the throne of the then still young Kingdom on 25th of February 1713. Henceforth he considered himself both chief economist and field marshall of the country. The latter extended over more than 1000km from Kleve, left to the Rhine, right up to the Lithuanian neighbour city Memel. This rather unorganic, seemingly random, construct required protection more than anything else in order to survive, which meant mustering all of its strengths.
Frederick William I deliberately sacrificed courtly splendour for power, for things that were „genuine“, as he frequently put it. Within few years he turned the under-developed country that predominantly relied on imports into one of Europe‘s biggest exporters. One one hand, there were few countries with taxes as high, but there were even fewer where the state spent so much on infrastructure and subsidies. Some historians go as far as to argue Frederick William I was an early Socialist. Wolfgang Venohr called him a „Revolutionary on the Throne“.

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The country needed educated people, thus the King decreed as early as October 1717 compulsory education for kids between five and twelve years of age – unique in contemporary Europe, although some Prussian villages did not even have a school at the time. And the country needed immigrants. 1732 the King offered refuge to 25,000 protestants from Salzburg, who had been driven from home, in East Prussia. He paid for the travel costs, gave them lifestock, seeds and tools. The mountain dwelling Austrians worked a marvel in a country that was still mostly consisting of primeval forest and swamps.
However, one should not imagine Prussian immigration politics to be handing out citizenship all too randomly. The state did not need just people in general but workers and producers. Societally marginalised groups were quite unwanted. In Prussia there were multiple laws that prohibited beggars, vagabonds and „other useless rabble“ entry. Frederick William went as far as to order in 1725 that „all Gipsies caught at the border shall be punished at the gallows“.
From 1713 on, a part of Prussia‘s economic miracle was an eager construction business. A few palaces in the newly built Fredrichsstadt of Berlin aside, most of the buildings were however mundane buildings: community centres, schools, barracks, fortress buildings, hospitals and poorhouses, without any pomp or decoration. They were plain and frugal, like the Monarch himself.
Without luxury was the royal cuisine as well. Very much to the dismay of the royal consort, Sophie Dorothea, and the courtiers, Frederick William preferred „peasant like“ meals, such as pies with bacon, cabbage with beef and innards.

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The King‘s favourite was the military. Being the first Monarch of his period to always wear uniform, he often declared how he feels „a real pleasure, if the troops are well“. He raised the army‘s size from 40,000 to 81,000 men. This „militarism“ is often held against him, although it also meant that no foreign power dared attack Prussia and treat her like helpless prey, as was the case during the Thirty Years War.
Throughout his lifetely, Frederick William mobilised his army just once (conquering Stralsund in 1715), otherwise its existence alone was enough to deter potential enemies. „I shall rest nicely if they only leave me in peace, but who bites me, I will bite back“, he commented.
The soldier‘s profession, which at the time was in almost all other European countries regarded disgraceful and despised, became highly honoured in Prussia. Who wears „the King‘s coat“, could be certain to be treated with respect. 1717 a military academy was founded to turn the local gentry into officers – and most of all tie the aristocracy to the army, the monarch and the state. Frederick William managed to turn the aristocratic ethos of personal freedom and sovereignty into one that was rooted in service and duty to the nation.
At the same time Frederick William thought in a surprisingly National-German fashion. 1727 he said „No Englishman or Frenchman shall lord over us Germans. I shall hand my children swords and pistols into the cradle, that they shall keep the foreign nations out of Germany“. His favourite toast went „To Germania of German Nation! A bitch‘s cunt is he who doesn‘t mean it by heart!“

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As a young man the Soldier King already developed a fervent work ethic that neither spared his own nor the health of others. Everything had to be done „cito, citissime!“ (faster, fastest). His character was that of a petty bourgeois that was frequently driven into fits of rage by his work in statesmanship. Threatening lazy officials: „They shall either dance to my tune or I shall be the devil‘s. I will have them hanged and stir-fried, like the Tsar does.“
This proved effective. A love of order, proper organisation, timeliness and thoroughness became the highest commandments in Prussia and the King himself, who lived by these virtues, provided the example. His working days rarely ended before ten hours.
His married life was flawless at a time where sexual excess and keeping many mistresses was the aristocratic norm. But woe when Frederick William noticed insubordinance, then his cane (he became afflicted with goat early on) into a beating-instrument that neither spared ministers nor his own children.
His son and heir to the throne, Frederick, who would be called „The Great“ even during his lifetime, was left with a political testament of twelve points. Within, he was advised to „lead a godly life and be a good example to country and army“ and „not to start gorging and drinking, which leads to a bawdy life“.
Particularly characteristic of the Soldier King was the fourth point: „A King who wants to rule with honour in this world needs to do everything himself.“

Germanys dead get over yourself. He was filth like every Germ that ever lived.

Germans are a Master Race

>lose to russians
okay

From "Iron Kingdom The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947" by Christopher Clark:

>In one of the eighteenth century's funniest effusions of literary bile, Frederick, a grumpy old man of sixty-eight, denounced the German language as a 'semi-barbarian' idiom in which it was 'physically impossible', even for an author of genius, to achieve superior aesthetic effects. German writers, the king wrote, 'take pleasure in a diffuse style, they pile parenthesis upon parenthesis, and often you don't find until you reach the end of the page the verb on which the meaning of the entire sentence depends.'

Huh I guess Freddy boy really didn't like Germans.

He had the right idea

Everyone knows it's his father who built the army.

Fredrick would of been nothing without a perfect army already at his disposal.

You do realize the meme is ironic right?

>made it clear to him he was a disappointment for lacking any Germanic traits.

I doubt he said that, the term Germanic didn't even exist back then

>Germanicus
>15 BC
>Fast forward to 18th century
>the term Germanic didn't even exist back then
You're a special kind of stoopid

God, you're retarded.

As early as the 1500's there was talk about a German identity, a Germanic peoples, a Germanic culture. Philosophers in the HRE mused constantly throughout the 18th and 19th centuries leading up to 1871 whether or not the German people could ever become a nation- but the concept of a Germanic peoples is centuries old.

It was a joke. "Germany" in German is called "Deutschland".
Ergo German people don't call themselves German.

>[Frederick WilliamI] also had a notable contempt for France, and would sometimes fly into a rage at the mere mention of that country,
What did he know?

>the term Germanic didn't even exist back then

It didn't. The distinction German - Germanic was not established in the 18th century. So people referred to the Germani of antiquity as Germans. In antique sources, the term Germani doesn't mean Germanic in todays sense either since Goths were not seen as Germani. In the 18th century, philologues used the word Teutonic to describe the relatedness of the Germanic languages, but this was more of a specialist term that was not much used outside the field. So Frederick William if anything spoke of German values, not Germanic values.

lies

I’m guessing this was more of a Prussian thing than a German thing. I don’t think that Germans in general were known for being especially disciplined or regimented at the time.

>liking French culture was the equivalent of being a sissy faggot even centuries ago
Who would've thought

I’m sure the Prussians felt really masculine getting stomped in a few weeks by Napoleon.

I'm sure Napoleon felt really masculine dying alone on Saint Helena.

HUMAN MISERY AT ITS FINEST EXPRESION.........THE AUTHOR OF THIS POST.........A HATEFUL, FRUSTRATED, ENVIOUS prussiANUS WITH INFERIORITY COMPLEX LIKE MANY, WHO CAN'T FIND ANOTHER WAY TO EXTERIORIZE AND VENT HIS OWN MISERIES LIKE A NOBODY POOR DEVIL REDUCED TO WASTE!!!!!!!!!!! YOU PITY !!! As said by Wilhelm II, the former prussiANUS king:

Wilhelm: THE prussiANUS WANTS TO BE RACIALLY BALTIC AND CULTURALLY NORDIC. With what valid argument this poor and sad prussiANUS can revoke me? THE ONE WHO MAKES LAUGH IS YOU AND YOUR POOR HATEFUL LIFE. PRUSHITIA, as stated by many famous people, Is A SHIT REJECTED BY EVERY RACE OF THE WORLD, FROM INDIGINEOUS , WHITE , ASIATIC, JEW ETC AND BECAUSE OF THAT THERE IS NOTHING OF WORTH OR IMPORTANCE IN PRUSSIA, THE ONLY EXPORT THAT PRUSSIA GIVES TO THE WORLD IS THE prussiANUS: A CLUMSY, SMELLY AND UGLY BEING. THE PRUSSIAN WOMEN? JUST A BUNCH OF SLUTS WH0 FUCK REFUGEES!!! A DAMNED , POOR AND DISGUSTING PRUSSIA, ENVY OF NO COUNTRY!!!

Frederick II actually had terrible gout just like his father, especially during the later days of the seven years war. He sometimes had to be carried to the battlefield in a litter as he couldn't walk.

>Germans, in general, were known for being especially disciplined or regimented at the time.
Why do you feel the need to lie

Germans are barbarian anything new?

Because I'm not lying

Yeah you are

how so?

Schizophrenia: the Veeky Forums poster

lies

>gets beaten by father for being too weak and effeminate and not being hardcore militant enough
>ends up btfo'ing france, austria and russia and becoming the greatest general in centuries anyway

Frederick's father was a legit autist.

>Frederick's father was a legit autist.
I mean, aren't all germans autist.

Beware the childish Frenchman

>literal 'soldier king' does his best to raise you according to his values
>end up living up to them
lol what a retarded father

indeed

They would still use the word "Germanen" ergo germanic

Wrong!

While I think Frederick William had some of the best policies of the day and largely laid the foundation for the rise of Prussia as a Great Power, his personal behavior is pretty inexcusable. He was raucous, short-tempered, and violent.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Paul_von_Gundling
>A monkey, dressed as Gundling, was introduced to him as his own son, and he was compelled to embrace and kiss it.
>One night, in the middle of winter, when he was making his way home over the castle drawbrige, he was seized by four burly Grenadier Guards and dropped repeatedly onto the frozen moat below until his weight broke the ice, and he was ridiculed from above as he struggled in agony.
>The king left two young bears in his bedroom to terrify him.
>Gundling's food was to have been mixed with a strong laxative before the wedding night. Gundling managed to escape this and other attacks planned for the wedding day by reporting himself sick, and having the marriage take place secretly and earlier than planned.
>[Upon Gundling's death] the king's antics were so outrageous that the local clergy categorically refused to have anything to do with this parody of a funeral ceremony.

His boorishness wasn't just making sure his son was disciplined or that his rules were followed. He actively humiliated learned men at his court. As a king, he undoubtedly ranks among the best of his time. As a man, he hardly even qualifies.

it was just banter m8

Not to his son it wasn't.

Fuck off, Frederick's gay boyfriend.

No you

>Frederick II's father beat him for wearing gloves in cold weather
Jesus fuck, some people are really retarded

I know right

>calling the soldier king a soyboy

Frederick William I. did nothing wrong

He was a stupid faggot and deserved everything, I hope he rots in hell.

Good riddance

not an argument

He was compared to his son

Not an argument

Filthy kraut

I didn't even know it was touhou

Poland please. Let it go

>Frederick William I, thought him effeminate
A FUCKING NU MALE

>you will never have a beta dad

well stupidity is a male trait

Sexist