Hans von Held
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The True Jacobins in the Prussian State, or - A Documentary Account of the Wicked Intrigues and Fraudulent Conduct in Office of Two Prussian Ministers of State
The True Jacobins in the Prussian State, or - A Documentary Account of the Wicked Intrigues and Fraudulent Conduct in Office of Two Prussian Ministers of State is an anonymous political dossier published in 1801 with the false imprint "Everywhere and nowhere," compiled by the Prussian excise official Hans von Held. Across 256 pages it reprints thirty-three official documents from the archives of South Prussia and Silesia, connected by unsigned editorial notes, in order to accuse the Silesian provincial minister Karl Georg von Hoym and the Grand Chancellor Heinrich Julius von Goldbeck of protecting a favourite, destroying a domain lessee, and lying to their king. Held bound twelve copies in black and sent them to the court, and the book has been known ever since as the Schwarzes Buch, the black book.