Georg Dietloff von Arnim-Boitzenburg

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Georg Dietloff von Arnim-Boitzenburg, oil painting by David Matthieu, 1753.
Georg Dietloff von Arnim-Boitzenburg, copper engraving after Antoine Pesne, 1756.

Georg Dietloff von Arnim-Boitzenburg (born September 18, 1679 in Haus Necheln ( Uckermark ), † October 20, 1753 in Berlin ) was a Prussian statesman and most recently a leading minister under Friedrich II.

Life

The father was the colonel and governor Jakob Dietlof von Arnim from the Prussian noble family von Arnim . The mother was Euphemia, b. from Blankenburg .

From 1688, when he was not even nine years old, he attended the University of Königsberg . He later moved to Halle, where he studied until 1699. He then traveled through Germany, the Netherlands, France and Italy as part of his Grand Tour .

In 1703 he became a chamberlain at the Brandenburg-Prussian court. He also served in the army. He took part in the battle of Höchstädt in 1704 and was wounded in the process.

Von Arnim married Countess Dorothea Sabina von Schlieben in 1705. With this he had ten children. In 1706 he became bailiff in the Uckermark and in Oberheroldsrath. In 1710 he succeeded in paying off the co-heirs of the Boitzenburg estate, redeeming pledged property and becoming the sole owner of the villages of Kröchlendorff , Milow , Kuhz , Wichmannsdorf , Kleinow and Falkenwalde . He had a manor house built in the baroque style. Kröchlendorff Castle was later built there .

In 1712 von Arnim became a secret councilor. Friedrich Wilhelm I appointed him President of the Tribunal and the Ravensberg Appellate Court in Berlin in 1738. In addition, he became lieutenant director, a real secret council, and minister of state and war. In 1743, von Arnim also took over the Silesian Justice Department. Because he did not agree to extensive judicial reforms approved by Frederick II, he resigned in 1748. Then he was director of the Brandenburg landscape . Because of his services in the civil service, he was awarded the Order of the Black Eagle.

Frederick II brought him back to the civil service in 1749 and appointed him conducting minister and vice-president of the general directorate . In addition, he was postmaster general and senior curator of the secondary schools. He was one of the most determined representatives of corporate interests in the General Board.

The grave monument for Georg Dietloff von Arnim-Boitzenburg in the St. Marien-Kirche Boitzenburg, 1753

In addition to his public work, he promoted the sciences, especially the Academy of Sciences . He was its curator from 1745 to 1753. He laid the foundations of the castle library at Boitzenburg Castle and had a side wing built especially for it. By settling settlers in the course of the internal colonization, he made a contribution to the revitalization of areas deserted since the Thirty Years War. He is buried in the St. Marien Church in Boitzenburg . A tomb there commemorates him.

ancestry

Arms of the von Arnim


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jacob von Arnim (1564-1632)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Georg Wilhelm von Arnim (1612–1673)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Anna Maria von Winterfeld (1588–1635)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jakob Dietlof von Arnim (1645–1689)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Abraham von Hohendorff (?? - ca. 1645)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Barbara Sabina von Hohendorff (1620–1693)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Barbara von Wulffen (1585–1619)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Georg Dietloff von Arnim (1679–1753)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Hans von Blanckenburg (?? - ??)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Georg von Blanckenburg (1606–1679)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Catharina von Ihlenfeld (?? - ??)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Euphemia of Blankenburg (1644–1712)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Vivellence von Eickstedt (1559–1622)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Euphemia of Eickstedt (1605–1683)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Euphemia of Eickstedt (?? - 1606)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the previous academies. Georg Dietloff von Arnim. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 16, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Arnim-Boitzenburg, Georg Dietloff von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Minister
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1679
PLACE OF BIRTH House Necheln ( Uckermark )
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1753
Place of death Berlin