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During these almost ten years in Altona he came into contact with a circle of aristocrats that had been rejected from the court in Copenhagen.

Among these friends were Enevold Brandt and Count Schack Carl Rantzau, leader of a circle of followers of the Enlightenment, who treated Struensee as his protégé.

They managed to maneuver Struensee into a position as King Christian VII's travelling physician, also with the hope that he could give them access to the royal court again.