Johann Gustav Droysen i Kazimierz Jarochowski. Dwugłos w sprawie Wielkiego Elektora i Kalksteina

Johann Gustav Droysen and Kazimierz Jarochowski opinions about elector Friedrich Wilhelm and Krystian Louis Kalkstein were the product of the first years of united Germany around Prussia. Jarochowski was opposed the action taken in Berlin of the politicization of history and the idealization of Hohenzollern and the state ruled by them. One of its main antagonists became Droysen, a professor at the University of Berlin, patriot, Prussia’s Hohenzollerns consistent apologist, justifying the position of the Prussian nationalist rights and the state’s hegemony policy. He created the Great Elector as the precursor of all that has come to Prussia in the nineteenth century, and saw in Friedrich Wilhelm eminent statesman guided by the interest of the entire Reich. Droysen to attain this objective, not backed up before biased dissembled and even – as shown by Jarochowski – counterfeiting past. Jarochowski, suppress falsehoods Droysen about Kalkstein and Friedrich Wilhelm’s foreign policy was also not free from political involvement. Indeed focused on selected threads of activity of the Great Elector, doing so in order to demonstrate the unfortunate beginnings Prussia and the Hohenzollern. Used by the Poznan historian Droysen’s thesis to rebut arguments about the appointment of a nationwide state of Prussia (deutscher Beryf Preußens) seem to be convincing. Great Elector guided solely by their own good dynasty and the Prussian-Brandenburg raison d’etat. So he was not – as claimed by Droysen - German patriot and defender of the interests of the nationwide.