Ever have a overbearing parent and run away from home with a gay lover? Ever have your dad ground you afterwards and give you a punishment that is a tad excessive? Ever take that punishment way to hard, and end up venting that angst onto neighboring nation-states upon your father's death? Ever become one of the worlds greatest patrons of the arts and culture an entire race of people from pure militarism? Ever successfully repel a coordinated invasion by the three largest superpowers on the planet?
Then you share something with Old Fritz.
Any recommended biographies on Fred would be greatly appreciated. Also any discussion on Frederick in this thread will be acknowledged.
>gay lover
Fucking what? kill yourself loser
>>1363747
yeah whats so gay about fucking your nco's now and again
Ever disseminate potatoes throughout your empire by having peasants steal them from you and demanding them back as if they were the greatest food on earth?
>>1363584
>nation-states
>>1363764
then why didn't he have kids but having a wife?
>>1363584
>run away with BFF
>get caught
>"haha, son come over here with your old man :DDDD"
>forced to watch as your best friend is executed
Jesus Christ.
>>1363797
Austrians cucked prussia at that time, they even made Frederick (pulling out of my arse here) marry a Austrian girl instead of a French one.
>>1363584
It always saddens me that he's remembered as a military man, when he literally was saved by a miracle. He was much more a patron of the arts and sciences
His father was a badass though.
>>1363807
Instead of an English* one
Also he made up for it later in life by fucking the Habsburgs in their royal Silesian ass
Any reasons to think he was something of a psychopath?
>>1363976
You literally have to be a psychopath in order to start out wars like Old Fritz did.
Also, he almost certainly was gay. And he barely spoke German at all - his mother tongue was French.
>>1364191
His mother tongue wasn't French he just preferred the French language.
>>1364191
He spoke German he just thought it was the language of the battlefield and parade ground and not fit for civilized conversation.
>>1363923
>His father was a badass though.
Prussia from Frederick William the Great Elector is nothing but overall great or good rulers up until ol' Willy 2 minus the bump of Frederick William II.
