Albrecht von Arnim

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Count Albrecht von Arnim (born January 17, 1841 in Merseburg , † December 3, 1903 in Berlin ) was a Prussian landowner and politician.

Origin and family environment

Georg Karl Albrecht Graf von Arnim came from the Arnim-Boitzenburg line of his widespread, old Uckermark, originally Altmark noble family, divided into numerous branches. The Count's Boitzenburg branch not only had the right to present the Prussian mansion , but also had a hereditary seat in the Prussian mansion with the Boitzenburg line from October 12, 1854 . Albrecht Graf von Arnim, however, did not belong to the main branch of the Boitzenburg count line. Therefore, it was not him but a cousin that was entitled to the hereditary manor house bestowed according to the law of the firstborn ( primogeniture ), but he was nevertheless a wealthy landowner.

Life path and career

Although he was an estate heir as the eldest son, he did not limit his life to the management of his inherited agricultural property, but instead, as was customary at the time for young nobles, entered the Prussian army as an officer candidate, in which he rose to the rank of major brought. Retired from military service, he devoted himself to the administration of his property, the Mellenau estate , agricultural issues and civil status tasks. That is why in 1901 he was sent by his peers, the Brandenburg Count Association (see list of members of the Prussian mansion ), as their delegate to the Prussian mansion, to which he then belonged until his death. In addition to his agricultural and political work, he also worked as a legal knight of the Protestant Order of St. John with the religious and charitable tasks assigned to this order.

Albrecht Graf von Arnim had been married to Anna Countess von der Schulenburg (1858–1911) since March 30, 1876 . The marriage gave birth to two daughters.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility, volume GAV, CA Starke, Limburg 1967, page 12.
  2. ^ A b Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, Volume GAV, page 16.
  3. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Nels, Volume GAV, page 17.
personal data
SURNAME Arnim, Albrecht von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian squatters and politicians
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1903
Place of death Berlin