Felix von Arnim
Felix Wilhelm Friedrich von Arnim (born June 7, 1862 in Gerswalde ; † May 2, 1919 there ) was a Prussian officer , chamberlain and landowner in the Uckermark .
origin
Felix was a son of Arthur von Arnim (1825-1883) and his wife Henriette, nee Herbig (1827-1892). His sister Henriette (* 1865) was married to the Prussian Lieutenant General Thilo von Tresckow .
Life
Arnim was a teacher at the Prussian Military Riding Institute in Hanover and Ordonnanzoffizier of the Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg Friedrich August , who in 1890 was also godfather of his first son Adolf Oswald. In 1900 Arnim resigned for health reasons and in 1904 finally left his regiment as a major . After the imperial maneuver in 1911 he received the title of Prussian chamberlain . He was a legal knight of the Order of St. John .
Arnim married in 1889 the daughter Emily (1869–1952) of the German-American brewery owner Adolph Schalk (* 1826) from Newark and his wife Emma Uhl (1841–1902). Emma Uhl's mother, Anna Uhl , owned the largest German-language newspaper in the United States, the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung .
The couple had the manor house rebuilt with American dollars , a central flight of stairs, large field stone terraces, the stables and a castle pond. Emily had Californian dessert fruit grown on the southern slope and made the nursery known beyond the Uckermark. Horse breeding was carried out on the Herrenstein manor, founded in 1907 .
The daughter Emily (called Milly) Henriette von Arnim (1892–1982) married Rudolf von Oppen (1887–1954) in Berlin in 1916 .
After Arnim's death, his mother, Emily, handed the estate over to her son Adolf Oswald (* 1890) free of debt in 1921 and moved to Switzerland. In 1926, Adolf Oswald lost the Gerswalde estate due to unsuccessful financial speculation.
literature
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses. The nobility born in Germany (primeval nobility). 1917. Eighteenth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1916, p. 33.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Arnim, Felix von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arnim, Felix Wilhelm Friedrich von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian officer and chamberlain |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gerswalde |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1919 |
| Place of death | Gerswalde |