Harry von Arnim (diplomat)
Harry Karl Kurt Eduard von Arnim-Suckow , from 1870 Count von Arnim-Suckow (born October 3, 1824 in Moitzelfitz , Fürstenthum district , † May 19, 1881 in Nice , southern France ) was a Prussian diplomat.
origin
He came from the von Arnim family in Uckermark . His parents were Christian Ernst von Arnim (1792–1842) and his wife Auguste von Blankenburg (1795–1849). His uncle was the politician Heinrich Alexander von Arnim (1798–1861).
family
On December 28, 1846, he married Elise von Prillwitz (born June 23, 1827 in Berlin; † December 22, 1854 in Rome), the daughter of Auguste von Prillwitz . The couple had a son:
- Henning August (born April 21, 1851 - † August 20, 1910)
- ⚭ Anna von Törring-Jettenbach (* October 11, 1863; † February 26, 1888)
- ⚭ 1891 Mary Annette Beauchamp
After her death, he married Sophie Adelheid von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1836-1918), a daughter of Count Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg, in Berlin on April 21, 1857 . The couple had three daughters, including:
- Margarethe (December 9, 1859 - May 2, 1940) ⚭ Bernd von Arnim (politician)
- Caroline Mathilde (* December 30, 1865; † July 18, 1898) ⚭ Clemens Adolf von Einsiedel (* October 29, 1853; † March 1, 1917)
- Elise Adolphine (March 16, 1858 - January 16, 1874)
Arnim was raised to the Prussian count status in Berlin on July 28, 1870 according to the law of the firstborn ( primogeniture ).
Life
Arnim had been the Prussian envoy to the Holy See from 1864 and from 1866 as the envoy of the North German Confederation . That was when the Kulturkampf began . After the Franco-German War , Arnim negotiated the Peace of Frankfurt with Bismarck ( May 10, 1871 ). In 1872 he was the German ambassador in Paris. As such, he soon got into a conflict with Bismarck about the future form of government in France: while Bismarck preferred a republic to make France incapable of alliance and thus isolate it from the monarchies of Europe, Arnim wanted to establish a monarchy. He contributed significantly to the overthrow of President Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877) in May 1873 by promising German support to the monarchist forces.
Since Arnim was close to the old conservatives , advocated defusing the Kulturkampf and allegedly aspiring to the office of Reich Chancellor, the conflict with Reich Chancellor Bismarck broke out openly in 1873. In early 1874, Bismarck pushed through the recall of Arnim from Paris. This in turn opened a press campaign against Bismarck and took documents from the embassy to continue fighting against his adversary. This made it possible for Bismarck to open sensational criminal proceedings against Arnim for having embezzled diplomatic files. He was eventually sentenced to nine months in prison. The “Arnim Paragraph” ( § 353a StGB ) is named after him, which threatens breach of trust in the foreign service with punishment.
Arnim fled from arrest abroad and continued from there his journalistic struggle against Bismarck continued what he in absentia for treason was sentenced to five years in prison. After that, he no longer appeared in public.
Around 1843 he bought the Schlagenthin Castle from Prince August Ferdinand of Prussia and later rebuilt it to its present form.
Obituary and eulogy
- Obituary notice for Count Harry von Arnim . Nice, May 20, 1881, sent as a letter to Pastor Heussinger in Schlagenthin .
- Greetings on the occasion of the funeral of his Excellency Real Secret Counselor Dr. juris Count Harry von Arnim . Held by Pastor Heinrich August Heussinger on June 8, 1881 in the burial chapel on the mountains near Schlagenthin. Manuscript, 12 pages.
literature
- Wilhelm Eichhoff Pro Nihilo! Prehistory of the Arnim process . Issue 1. Verlag-Magazin, Zurich 1876. DigitalisatMDZ Reader
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A volume VIII , page 101, volume 38 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1966, ISSN 0435-2408
- Jaspers von Arnim: Harry Graf v. Arnim (CV on the von Arnim family homepage, 2004, accessed October 16, 2016)
- Fritz Hartung : Arnim-Suckow, Harry Kurt Eduard Carl von, Count. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , pp. 373-375 ( digitized version ).
- Klaus Hermann Ringwald: The 'Arnim Paragraph' (§ 353a StGB) and the protection of foreign interests of the Federal Republic of Germany , Baden-Baden (Nomos-Verlag), 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-5118-4
- Heinz Wolter: Rival diplomat and conservative Frondeur . In: Shaping the Bismarckian Age . Edited by Gustav Seeber , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1978, pp. 267–285.
Web links
- Literature by and about Harry von Arnim in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Harry von Arnim in the German Digital Library
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Rosendorfer (1993): MISZELLE - A NOTE TO GREGOROVIUS , p. 669.
- ↑ The original letter comes from the estate of Heinrich August Heussinger's granddaughter, Gerhard Hund's mother-in-law .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnim, Harry von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arnim, Harry Count of; Arnim-Suckow, Harry Karl Kurt Eduard Graf von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moitzelfitz , Principality District |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1881 |
| Place of death | Nice , France |