Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg

Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg

Adolf Heinrich Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg (* 10. April 1803 in Berlin , † 8. January 1868 on Schloss Boitzenburg ) one was Prussian Minister of State , Member of the Prussian manor house , cathedral dean in Brandenburg , Chamberlain and Major of Landwehr - Cavalry .

Life

Adolf Heinrich von Arnim

Career

First he received private lessons and then went to the Joachimsthal School and from 1819 to 1821 at the Friedrichwerder School in Berlin. After studying law in Berlin and Göttingen, he was a one-year volunteer with the Guard Uhlans in 1825 .

In 1825 he entered the Prussian judicial and civil service, initially as an auscultator at the City Court and as a trainee lawyer at the Berlin Court of Appeal. In 1830 he became district administrator in the Uckermark district and in 1833 Vice President in the Stralsund administrative region . From 1834 he was president of the Aachen administrative district and from 1838 of the Merseburg administrative district .

In 1840, von Arnim-Boitzenburg became President of the Province of Posen . In 1842, at the age of almost 40, he became the youngest Prussian Minister of the Interior. As such, he fought in vain for constitutional reform. Since he did not want to support the romantic, unreal plans of Friedrich Wilhelm IV , he resigned in 1845. This was one of the reasons why the king brought him back to government after his constitutional plans had failed and the German Revolution broke out in 1848/49 . From March 19, 1848 to March 29, 1848, Arnim was the first Prussian Prime Minister for a few days. He resigned again because the king was again pursuing his own plans against his advice, this time trying to position himself at the head of the national movement.

Arnim belonged to the Brandenburg Provincial Parliament from 1839 to 1868 and to the United State Parliament in 1847 . From May 18 to June 10, 1848 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly for Prenzlau . In 1850 he belonged to the Erfurt Union Parliament , from 1849–1868 first to the Second Chamber of the Prussian Landtag , then to the manor house.

Arnim died on January 8, 1868 in Boitzenburg at the age of 64 of "gastric fever". He was buried on January 11th in Arnim's hereditary funeral.

Arnim is known to this day for his statement as the Prussian interior minister on Heinrich Heine's work The Silesian Weavers . In a report to King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, he described the work as “an address to the poor in the people in a rebellious tone and filled with criminal remarks” . Thereupon the Royal Prussian Chamber Court ordered the poem to be banned, which in 1846 led to a reciter being sentenced to prison.

ancestry

He was the son of the Prussian ambassador in Dresden and Copenhagen , Friedrich Abraham Wilhelm von Arnim (1767–1812) and Countess Georgine von Wallmoden-Grimborn (1770–1859), daughter of the Electorate of Hanover Field Marshal Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn .

Abraham Wilhelm von Arnim (1712–1761)

Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim (1739–1801)

Anna Elisabeth von der Schulenburg (??? - 1741)

Friedrich Abraham Wilhelm von Arnim (1767–1812)

Friederike Antoinette von Cramm adH Samtleben (1747–1817)

Adolf Heinrich von Arnim (1803–1868)

George II, King of Great Britain a. Ireland (1683-1760)

Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden (1736–1811)

Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wendt (1704–1765)

Georgine Charlotte Auguste von Wallmoden (1770-1859)

August Wilhelm von Wangenheim (1697–1764)

Charlotte Christiane Auguste Wilhelmine von Wangenheim (1740–1783)

Magdalene Christine von Hardenberg (1701–1790)

family

Arms of the von Arnim

He was married to Anna Caroline von der Schulenburg (1804-1886) since August 4, 1830 . The couple had the following children, among others:

• Freda Sophie Karoline Marie (born November 3, 1831 - † August 9, 1905) ⚭ Karl Friedrich von Savigny (1814–1875)
• Dietlof Friedrich Adolf (December 12, 1832 - December 15, 1887)

⚭ July 6, 1865 Mathilde von Schweinitz and Krain (* October 11, 1841; † September 9, 1874)

⚭ November 30, 1875 Helene von Schweinitz and Krain (* April 25, 1846; † January 9, 1930)

• Sophie (* August 21, 1836: † November 30, 1918) ⚭ Harry von Arnim (* October 3, 1824 - May 19, 1881)
• Traugott Hermann (born June 20, 1839 - † January 22, 1919) diplomat

⚭ Laura von Lotzbeck (born September 27, 1852 - † September 11, 1886)

⚭ Karoline von Bismarck-Bohlen (widow of Georg Werner)

• Georg Karl Albrecht (* January 17, 1841; † December 3, 1903) ⚭ Countess Anna von der Schulenburg (* June 24, 1858; † October 11, 1911)
• Georg Werner (born May 3, 1845: † September 6, 1881) ⚭ Countess Karoline von Bismarck-Bohlen (born March 31, 1851; † October 12, 1912)
• Freda Anna Karoline (* April 17, 1842; † 1916) ⚭ July 28, 1870 Theodor von Bethmann-Hollweg (1821–1886)
• Marie Henriette Elisabeth, called Elisabeth, (born June 13, 1849 - March 31, 1917), palace lady of the Empress ⚭ July 26, 1871 Count Udo zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1840–1910)

Works

• The administrative creed of Count von Arnim. Wigand, Leipzig 1845. Digitized
• The German Central Authority and Prussia . With a foreword of the same to his voters for the German National Assembly. Georg Reimer, Berlin 1848 digitized
• About the swearing-in of the army on the constitution. Written in August 1849 . Decker go. Ober-Hofbuchdruckereim Berlin 1849.
• Comments by Count Arnim-Boitzenburg on the text: The Berlin March Days, described from the military point of view. Berlin 1850.
• The right of the manor house in setting the state budget. Berlin 1863.

literature

• Constantin Rößler :  Arnim-Boitzenburg, Adolf Heinrich Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 558-566.
• Heinz Gollwitzer :  Arnim-Boitzenburg, Adolf Graf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 368 ( digitized version ).
• Martin Sprungala: Count Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1803–1868), the 4th Poznan President , in: Poznan Voices , No. 5, Lüneburg 2010
• Wolf Nitschke: Conservative nobleman and politician of compromise - Adolf Heinrich Graf v. Arnim-Boitzenburg . In: Conservative politicians in Germany. A selection of biographical portraits from two centuries, ed. by Hans-Christof Kraus. Berlin 1995, pp. 89-110.
• Wolf Nitschke: Adolf Heinrich Graf v. Arnim-Boitzenburg (1803–1868) A political biography (studies and texts for the study of conservatism, Volume 5). Berlin 2004.
• Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , pp. 62-63.
• Cast, Genealogical Yearbook of the German Nobility, p.240f

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg  in the German Digital Library
• Search for "Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Adolf-Heinrich Graf von Arnim - CV (PDF; 198 kB)
• family tree

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographies on German History from the Beginnings to 1945, Berlin 1991, p. 27
2. ^ Eduard Bleich (ed.): The first united state parliament in Berlin 1847. Karl Reimarus, Berlin 1847, p. 733 ( Google Books ).
3. ^ See death entry in the Boitzenburg church book. See church records on ancestry.de, Boitzenburg 1863–1874, p. 106.
4. ↑ See marriage entry in the Boitzenburg church book. See church records on ancestry.de, Boitzenburg 1863–1874, p. 133.
5. ↑ See marriage entry in the Boitzenburg church book. See church records on ancestry.de, Boitzenburg 1863–1874, p. 149.