Sieghart von Arnim

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Sieghart Dietlof Graf von Arnim (also: Sieghart Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg ; born September 16, 1928 in Arnimshain, today Buchenhain , part of the municipality of Boitzenburger Land ) is a German manager and non-fiction author .

He was involved in the reconstruction and international expansion of E. Merck , of which he was a member from 1950 to 1990. Most recently, as a personally liable partner, he held the position of Deputy Chairman of the Management Board.

Life

Origin and youth

Sieghart Graf von Arnim comes from the Boitzenburg house of the Brandenburg noble von Arnim family . He was born on September 16, 1928 as the youngest son of Joachim Dietlof von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1898–1972), the last owner of Boitzenburg, and his wife Luise Freiin von Loën (1894–1975) in Arnimshain in the Uckermark , where he grew up on the large family estate. As a teenager, he was called up for the Volkssturm in the final phase of the Second World War . In 1945 the family was expropriated and expelled without compensation as part of the so-called “land reform” of the communist regime . As displaced persons , the family members began a new life in West Germany . Sieghart von Arnim completed a commercial apprenticeship after a short period in agriculture and forestry .

Career in the chemical-pharmaceutical industry

In 1950, Graf von Arnim joined the chemical and pharmaceutical company E. Merck , Darmstadt . There he began his career in 1951 with a stay of several years in India . For the company at the time, in addition to rebuilding, it was primarily about re-establishing the old connections to the foreign markets. Sieghart von Arnim contributed to this and to the internationalization of the company, which began in the 1960s. On numerous trips abroad, he frequently visited Asia and Latin America . In the 1980s, however, the USA and Japan came to the fore alongside the European countries. Graf von Arnim most recently held the position of Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of E. Merck as a personally liable partner . In 1990 he retired. He recorded his experiences in the autobiography Around the World in Forty Years. On the move in four continents in the service of the chemical-pharmaceutical industry (2003).

As an author and genealogist

Sieghart Graf von Arnim has published several publications on Boitzenburg Castle and its history.

In retirement, Sieghart Graf von Arnim began to research the history of his family more closely and wrote a number of books and articles on this, but also on other topics. He has published several publications on Boitzenburg Castle , which had been the family seat for centuries, and its history. He contributed the extensive biographies of his ancestors Dietlof Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1998) and Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Arnim (2005) for the series From the German Aristocratic Archives .

Family and personal life

On September 28, 1957 Sieghart married Graf von Arnim in Isernhagen-Süd Gisela von Bernuth (born May 28, 1935 in Kröchlendorff ). The marriage produced three sons.

Fonts

  • Boitzenburg. A business enterprise with a social network and cultural tradition , s. l. 1998
  • Dietlof Count von Arnim-Boitzenburg. A Prussian country nobleman and his world in upheaval between state and church , From the German Aristocratic Archive (Volume 13), Limburg an der Lahn 1998 ( ISBN 3-7980-0685-7 )
  • Around the world in forty years. On the move in four continents in the service of the chemical-pharmaceutical industry , Hameln 2003 ( ISBN 3-8271-9046-0 )
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Arnim (1739–1801). Between tradition and progress in horticulture and forestry , From the German Aristocratic Archives (New Series, Volume 8), Limburg an der Lahn 2005 ( ISBN 3-7980-0608-3 )
  • Georg Dietloff von Arnim, (1679–1753) , CA Starke-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7980-0585-3
  • as co-author: Brandenburg village churches and their guardians , Munich, Berlin, London and New York 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-7913-4005-0 )

He is also one of the authors of the book Burgen, Schlösser, Gutshäuser in Brandenburg und Berlin (1996) and the biographical volume Im Dienst am Wald published by Albrecht Milnik . Lives and achievements of Brandenburg foresters (2006).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to information from CW Niemeyer Buchverlage GmbH  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved January 2, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / niemeyer-buch.de  
  2. ^ Biographical information about the author in the book Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Arnim (1739–1801). Between tradition and progress in horticulture and forestry (2005), as an Internet document (pdf; 499 kB) also on the von Arnim family's website
personal data
SURNAME Arnim, Sieghart von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnim, Sieghart Dietlof Count von; Arnim-Boitzenburg, Sieghart Count von; Arnim, Sieghart Count of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnimshain, today Buchenhain, part of the municipality Boitzenburger Land