Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg

Adolf Heinrich Graf von Arnim - Boitzenburg ( born April 10, 1803 in Berlin, † January 8, 1868 at Schloss Boitzenburg ) was a Prussian Minister of State, Member of the Prussian House of Lords, Domdechant in Brandenburg, Chamberlain and Major Landwehr Cavalry.

He was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Abraham von Arnim (1767-1812) and Countess Georgina von Wallmoden - Grimborn (1770-1859) (divorced 1806). His mother was the daughter of kurhannoverschen Field Marshal Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden - Gimborn. His father was ambassador in Dresden and Copenhagen.

Life

First, he received private lessons and was then on Joachimsthal school and from 1819 to 1821 at the Friedrich Werder Gymnasium in Berlin. After studying law in Berlin and Göttingen, he was in 1825 as a one-year volunteer at the Guard Lancers.

In 1825 he entered the Prussian judiciary and civil service, first as Auskultator the City Court and as a clerk at the Court of Berlin. In 1830 he was district administrator in the district Uckermark and 1833 vice-president in the district of Stralsund. From 1834 he was President of the Government of the district of Aachen and 1838 the administrative district of Merseburg.

In 1840 von Arnim - Boitzenburg President of the Province Posen. In 1842, he became the youngest at just 40 years of Prussian Minister of the Interior. As such, he struggled in vain for constitutional reform. Since he did not want to share the romantic and unreal plans of Frederick William IV, he resigned in 1845. Also why it took the king, after the failure of his constitutional plans and the outbreak of the German Revolution 1848/49 back to the government. March 19, 1848 to March 29, 1848 Arnim was first Prussian Prime Minister for a few days. He stepped back again, because the king again pursued his own projects against his advice, this time with trying to put himself at the forefront of the national movement.

Arnim was a member from 1839 to 1868 the Brandenburg County Council and in 1847 the United Diet. From May 18 until June 10, 1848 he was MP for Prenzlau in the Frankfurt National Assembly. In 1850 he was a member of the Erfurt Union Parliament, from 1849 to 1868 until the Second Chamber of the Prussian Landtag, then the mansion.

Arnim died on January 8, 1868 in Boitzenburg at the age of 64 years on " gastric fever ". He was buried on 11 January in Arnim'schen family vault.

Until today Arnim is by his statement as Prussian Minister of the Interior to Heinrich Heine plant The Silesian Weavers. He described the work in a report to King Frederick William IV as "a seditious held in clay and stuffed with criminal utterances Address to the poor among the people ." Subsequently, the Royal Prussian Court of Appeal ordered a ban of the poem, which resulted in a prison sentence of a reciter 1846.

Descent

Family

He was since August 4, 1830 Anna Caroline von der Schulenburg ( 1804-1886 ) married. The couple had among others the following children:

  • Freda Karoline Sophie Marie ( * November 3, 1831; † August 9, 1905 ) ∞ Karl Friedrich von Savigny ( 1814-1875 )
  • Dietlof Friedrich Adolf ( born December 12, 1832 † December 15, 1887 )
  • Sophie ( born August 21, 1836: † November 30, 1918 ) ∞ Harry von Arnim (* October 3, 1824, † May 19 1881 )
  • Traugott Hermann ( * June 20, 1839, † 22 Jan. 1919 ) Diplomat
  • Georg Karl Albrecht ( * January 17, 1841, † December 3, 1903 ) ∞ Countess Anna von der Schulenburg (* June 24, 1858, † October 11, 1911 )
  • Georg Werner ( May 3, 1845 † September 6, 1881 ) ∞ Countess Karoline von Bismarck-Bohlen (* March 31, 1851; † August 12, 1912 )
  • Freda Anna Karoline ( born April 17, 1842 † 1916) ∞ July 28, 1870 Theodor von Bethmann- Hollweg ( 1829-1886 )
  • Marie Henriette Elisabeth called Elisabeth, (* June 13, 1849, † March 31, 1917 ), Palace of the Empress Lady ∞ July 26, 1871, Count of Stolberg- Wernigerode Udo ( 1840-1910 )

Works

  • The German central power and Prussia. Georg Reimer, Berlin 1848 digitized
  • About the swearing in of the army on the Constitution. Posted in August 1849. Deckersche go. Top Hofbuchdruckereim Berlin 1849.
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