Detlev von Arnim-Kröchlendorff

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Detlev von Arnim-Kröchlendorff

Hans Detlev Abraham Otto von Arnim (-Kröchlendorff) (born September 15, 1878 in Berlin , † February 1, 1947 there ) was a German landowner , politician and Protestant church leader .

Life

He was the son of the Prussian Rittmeister in the regiment of the Gardes du Corps Hans von Arnim (1849-1899) and his wife Catharina, born von Alvensleben from the Hundisburg house (1851-1892). His grandfather Oscar von Arnim-Kröchlendorff (1813-1903) was a member of the Prussian manor house and the German Reichstag , married to Malwine von Bismarck (1827-1908), the only sister of the Reich Chancellor Prince Otto von Bismarck .

After attending grammar school and completing his Abitur in Putbus , he began an officer career with the Cuirassier Regiment "Queen" (Pommersches) No. 2 of the Prussian Army in Pasewalk . In addition, he learned theoretically and practically agriculture, after which he managed his own estate in Kröchlendorff in 1904. From August 1914 until he was wounded in March 1918, Arnim took an active part in the First World War , most recently as a major .

From 1913 to 1919 he was a member of the district committee of Potsdam.

Arnim was Fideikommissherr on Kröchlendorff (in family possession since 1492) and Mittenwalde (since 1847), Ruhhof and Kuhzersee (since 1430) in the Templin district , Bertikow (since 1473) in the Angermünde district , Bietikow (since 1486) and the Woddower Heide (since 1761 ) in the Prenzlau district . It was not without reason that he was also a member of the dissolution office for family goods in Berlin in 1921.

From 1926 to 1928 he was a deputy and from 1928 to 1930 a full member of the Reichsrat . For the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten , he was district leader of Templin.

He was a member of the church senate (cf. Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ), chairman of the " Association of Patrons of the Evangelical Churches in the Mark Brandenburg ", chairman of the Lutheran convention of the Confessional Synod of the " German Evangelical Church ", member of the Brandenburg Brotherhood Council and member on the main board of the "Evangelical Lutheran Association in Old Prussia ". He was also a member of the Reichstag for the German National People's Party (DNVP) from 1932 to November 1933 and commander of the Order of St. John of Brandenburg. In 1946 he became honorary lord of the Brandenburg Cathedral .

Arnim married his distant relative Bertha von Arnim (born November 14, 1883 at Gut Züsedom; † November 24, 1946 in Berlin) on June 19, 1903 at Gut Züsedom , the daughter of the royal Prussian chamberlain Karl von Arnim (1846–1913), Chief electoral director and member of the Prussian House of Representatives , and Countess Sophie von Schwerin (1851–1933, from the Göhren family).

As Fideikommissherr, Arnim lived in Kröchlendorff Palace, southwest of Prenzlau in the Uckermark in 1848 by his grandfather Arnim (by the well-known Berlin architect Eduard Knoblauch ), which was expropriated by the Soviet Union on May 27, 1945 . Arnim and his family had previously fled the Red Army in the winter of 1944/1945 .

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  1. ↑ German Officer Association (Ed.): Honor ranking list of the former German Army. ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1926. p. 718.
  2. ↑ Lilian Hohrmann: Brandenburg church patron in the Nazi era. Library of Brandenburg and Prussian History, Volume 11, BUV, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8305-1093-4
  3. ↑ Heinz Boberach / Carsten Nicolaisen / Ruth Pabst (eds.): Handbook of the German Protestant Churches, 1918 to 1949: organs, offices, associations, people . tape 1 : Supraregional institutions. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, p. 135 .
personal data
SURNAME Arnim-Kröchlendorff, Detlev von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnim, Detlev von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowners and politicians (DNVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1947
Place of death Berlin