Retirement
After the Seven Years' War, Zieten went into retirement, the hero alike of the army and the people. During the War of the Bavarian Succession, Frederick the Great forbade him to go, so he retired to his estate at Wustrau with his niece, Leopoldine von Blumenthal, whose son was serving in his regiment. During this period she gathered his reminiscences for a famous biography of him. Six years after Zieten's death in Berlin, Frederick's successor, King Frederick William II of Prussia, erected a column to his memory on the Wilhelmplatz in Berlin.
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