Achim von Arnim (Rector)

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Achim von Arnim (1934)

Achim Konstantin Rudolf Ferdinand von Arnim (born February 1, 1881 in Karlsruhe ; † May 24, 1940 at Monchy-Lagache ) was a German officer , SA leader , professor of military science and long-time rector of the Technical University of Berlin .

Life

He came from the aristocratic family von Arnim in Brandenburg and was the eldest son of the later Prussian infantry general Hans von Arnim (1846–1922) and his wife Elisabeth, born Freiin von Türckheim.

After attending high school in Berlin Arnim came on 18 October 1900 as a cadet in the 1st Guards Regiment walk the Prussian army one. Here he was promoted to lieutenant on August 18, 1901 and graduated from the military academy from 1908 to 1911 . Subsequently , Arnim was assigned to the General Staff as first lieutenant and was promoted to captain on March 22, 1914.

With the outbreak of World War I , he was transferred to the staff of the Guard Corps on August 2, 1914 . In the autumn of 1914 he received orders as a parliamentarian to call on the city of Reims to surrender . In order to withhold vital information, the French army interned him for a month and then transferred him back. In the further course of the war, Arnim worked for the General Staff of the 2nd Army and as the First General Staff Officer of the 38th Infantry Division before he returned to the troop service at the end of May 1916 and became the company commander in the Life Guard Infantry Regiment (1st Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 115 was appointed. On April 17, 1918 he was awarded the order Pour le Mérite .

After the end of the war , Arnim was transferred to the Prussian War Ministry on November 23, 1918 and, after the formation of the Provisional Reichswehr, was a member of the Reichswehr Committee in the Reichswehr Ministry . On January 31, 1920 he was retired from active service with the character as a major .

From 1919 to 1924 Arnim studied economics in Munich . In 1924 he received his doctorate in Munich. rer. pole. Politically, he was involved in the Stahlhelm Kampfbund , in which he acted as a Gau leader from 1925 to 1932.

In May 1932 Arnim joined the NSDAP and the storm department of the NSDAP (SA). Immediately afterwards he was appointed staff leader of the SA group Berlin-Brandenburg under Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorff . He was to hold this office until Helldorf was replaced by Karl Ernst in February 1933. Arnim then became a brigade leader on Ernst's staff, as whose “only decent showpiece” he was considered. Later he was promoted to SA group leader.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Arnim was appointed full professor for military sciences at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1933. In 1933 Arnim became director of the Lessing University in Berlin. In 1933/34 he also received teaching assignments for military science at all Berlin universities. From 1934 to 1938 he was rector of the TH Berlin. In 1934 he signed the election call for German scientists behind Adolf Hitler in the VB . Under his rectorate, the university adapted to the requirements of the NSDAP. By 1938 around 25 percent of the scientific staff had been expelled, including Jews and politically unpopular people. In the winter semester of 1938/39 he also headed the seminar for SA leaders at the German University of Politics .

After the outbreak of the Second World War , Arnim was entrusted as lieutenant colonel with the command of the 164th Infantry Regiment of the 62nd Infantry Division . He died in fighting during the western campaign near Monchy-Lagache. Arnim was subsequently promoted to Oberst zV on April 20, 1944, with effect from May 1, 1940

Arnim's marriage to Marie-Valeska von Oppen, mistress of Kunersdorf , married since September 22, 1920, had three children.

promotion

  • 1932: SA standard leader
  • June 27, 1933: SA Oberführer

literature

  • Research service. Volume 9. 1940. (Obituary)
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 . P. 16.
  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 10th edition. Berlin 1935. p. 35.
  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 1: AG. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1999. ISBN 3-7648-2505-7 . Pp. 20-21.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf G. Binding: We request Reims to hand over. Rütten & Loening. Potsdam 1941.
  2. ↑ Frankfurter Hefte 15, 1960, p. 320.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 19.
  4. ^ Chronicle of the TU in the Berliner Zeitung of October 18, 2004.
  5. ↑ Fuehrer's Order of the Supreme SA Leadership No. II of September 9, 1932, p. 7.
  6. ↑ Leader's Order of the Supreme SA Leadership No. 15, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Arnim, Achim von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnim, Achim Konstantin Rudolf Ferdinand von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, SA leader and professor of military science
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1940
Place of death Monchy-Lagache