Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg

Count Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg (* December 12, 1832 at Boitzenburg Castle ; † December 15, 1887 ibid) was a large German landowner and politician in the Kingdom of Prussia . Before and after the founding of the German Empire , he was a member of the Reichstag .

origin

His parents were the Minister of State Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg and his wife Anna Caroline von der Schulenburg (1804–1886). His brother Traugott Hermann (June 20, 1839 - January 22, 1919) became a Prussian diplomat.

Life

He attended high schools in Poznan , Berlin and Torgau . He studied law at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and became active in the Corps Saxonia Göttingen in 1853 . After the exams he was an auscultator in Berlin and Merseburg , a government assessor with the government in Potsdam and an unskilled worker in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior.

As an orderly officer he took part in the German-Danish War and the German-French War . From 1867 to 1873 he was district administrator in the Templin district . He then became a member of the Reichstag , then President of the Lorraine district in 1873 . From 1874 to 1877 he worked as President of the Province of Silesia . He gave up this post after his brother-in-law Harry von Arnim was sentenced to prison. In 1884 he was appointed to the Prussian State Council.

As a member of parliament, he represented the constituency of Potsdam 3 (Ruppin – Templin) from August 1867 until the Reichstag election in 1871 in the first ordinary Reichstag of the North German Confederation . He sat in the Reichstag (German Empire) from 1871 to 1884 for five terms . In 1880 he took over the office of President of the Reichstag for one year . From 1868 he was hereditary member and for some time president of the Prussian manor house .

Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg was Fideikommissherr of the County of Boitzenburg (15,000 ha). He was a member of the Prussian State Council, from 1879 until his death President of the General Synod of the Evangelical Church of the older provinces of Prussia , in 1880/81 also President of the Brandenburg Provincial Synod , and Commander of the Order of St. John .

family

Arnim married Countess Mathilde von Schweinitz and Krain, née Freiin von Kauder (1841; † September 9, 1874) on July 6, 1865. The couple had several children:

Guido Adolf Georg Dietlof (* August 22, 1867; † April 15, 1933) ∞ 1893 Countess Alexandra zu Eulenburg (* July 3, 1868; † April 28, 1943)
Adolf Julius Albrecht Bernd (December 17, 1868 - October 3, 1945)

∞ 1897 (divorced in 1923) Bertha Gräfin von der Schulenburg (1874–1949)

∞ 1924 Gertrud Hirche

Flora Mathilde Karoline Dorothea (born November 22, 1871 - † January 28, 1945) ∞ Walter Schmidt von Schmidtseck (* September 22, 1865 - † January 28, 1945)

After the death of his first wife, he married on November 30, 1875 in Verahof Euphemie Helene von Schweinitz and Krayn (* April 25, 1846, † January 9, 1930), the sister of his first wife. The couple had several children:

Friedrich Abraham Jakob Adolf (born July 17, 1878)
Helene Mathilde (born June 26, 1876)

Honors

Incomplete list

ancestry

Arms of the von Arnim

Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim (1739–1801)

Friedrich Abraham Wilhelm von Arnim (1767–1812)

Friederike Antoinette von Cramm (1747–1817)

Adolf Heinrich von Arnim (1803–1868)

Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden (1736–1811)

Georgine Charlotte Auguste von Wallmoden (1770-1859)

Charlotte Christiane Auguste Wilhelmine von Wangenheim (1740–1783)

Dietlof Friedrich Adolf von Arnim (1832–1887)

Gebhard Werner von der Schulenburg (1722–1788)

Hans Günther Werner von der Schulenburg (1777–1806)

Sophie Charlotte von Veltheim (1735–1793)

Caroline von der Schulenburg (1804-1886)

Caroline Jacobine Sophie von Friesen (1781-1856)

literature

Wolfgang von der Groeben : Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen 1844 to 2006. Düsseldorf 2006, p. 16.
Sieghart Graf von Arnim: Dietlof Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg. Limburg an der Lahn, pp. 35–39.
Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867–1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 .
Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses, 1894, p. 43.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 47 , 122.
↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 57, short biography p. 371–372.
^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives . 2nd Edition. Carl Heymanns Verlag , Berlin 1904, p. 31.

personal data
SURNAME	Arnim-Boitzenburg, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Arnim-Boitzenburg, Count Dietlof Friedrich Adolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	December 12, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boitzenburg Castle
DATE OF DEATH	December 15, 1887
Place of death	Boitzenburg Castle

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 47 , 122.

[2] Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 57, short biography p. 371–372.

[3] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives . 2nd Edition. Carl Heymanns Verlag , Berlin 1904, p. 31.