A mathematician who cannot calculate? The cartoon by Carl Friedrich Gauß on Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (Q457065)

In a famous cartoon Carl Friedrich Gauß\ sketched his maths teacher at the University of Göttingen, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, standing in front of a blackboard on which he has written a wrong calculation, namely the addition of the two numbers 0.301036 and 1.812179. As is easily checked the solution should be 2.113215, however, Kästner's result as displayed is 2.108315. The author of the present paper discusses not only what Gauß\ thought about Kästner, but also what others thought about his mathematical abilities. The cartoon obviously shows that Gauß\ did not think very highly of Kästner and in fact there are passages in letters where he spoke quite frankly about what he thought of Kästner's mathematical skills. However, in other letters Gauß\ praised Kästner's character. As Karin Reich has pointed out elsewhere, Gauß\ owned and read several of the mathematical works of Kästner. Gauß\ also read and corrected Kästner's \textit{Astronomische Abhandlungen} (Astronomical treatises) and, following Reich, Gauß\ viewed Kästner as an incompetent astronomer. However, there is no true sign that Gauß\ did not value Kästner as a person. He sent Kästner two copies of his dissertation and kept correspondence for some time. As a matter of fact Kästner was highly praised by contemporaries and his many mathematical textbooks have helped to shape new generations of mathematicians. The cartoon is certainly a true student joke, but Kästner was an old man when Gauß\ took lectures with him. He was close to the end of his life while Gauß\ was at the beginning of his. The paper is written in German.