Greve Struensees omvändelse. Struensee samtalar med en präst med en vakthavande officer bakom prästens stol.
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Anm. Johan Friedrich Struensee 1737 - 1772, a German doctor from Altona (near Hamburg) had become famous for his works of hygiene and fighting epidemics.
In the year 1768 he followed the Danish King Christian VII on a tour through Germany. The King made him his personnel doctor and took him with him to the Danish court in Copenhagen. Very soon after he started a political carrier and was announced as Lord Chancellor of Denmark. With his unlimited political power heforced many new laws through the administration witch made him many enemies. People didn't like the "GERMAN". Even many laws where very reasonable, but far to futuristic.
His passionate love to the Queen Caroline Mathilde brought him to fall. The Queens second daughter was undaubtfully a child of Struensee. This of course was a crime at that times, and he was sentenced to death commend to 'spying to the wheel'. The Queen was send back to exile in Germany. Every Danish child knows about 'the rise and fall of Struensee'. There are written dramatic works for both film/TV and stage. The mortal remains, have been moved around several places in town, until they at least (around 1920)came to the mausoleum at St. Petri Church.