Heinrich Alexander von Arnim
Henry Alexander ( since 1841 Baron ) von Arnim ( born February 13, 1798 in Berlin, † January 5, 1861 in Dusseldorf ) was a Prussian statesman.
Arnim received his education in Pädagogium to hall, entered 1814 in the Landwehr cavalry Uckermark and made up with five brothers freedom wars. He studied at the University of Berlin and in 1819 member of the Corps Marchia. Since 1820 in the Prussian civil service, he was only embassy attaché in Switzerland, then secretary of legation in Munich, Copenhagen and Naples, and was appointed in 1829 to the charge d'affaires at the Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt. After he had successfully worked here for the formation of the Prussian - Hessian Customs Union, he was appointed in 1834 as a lecturer Council in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Frederick William IV, however, with whom he was in näherm personal transport, 1840 Minister to Brussels, appointed in 1846 in Paris. In these positions he acquired great merit by energetic representation of commercial interests of Germany, including through state bringing the Belgian- Prussian Commercial Treaty of Sept. 1, 1844 and by the firmness with which he both officially and in his book My trade policy Testament ( Berlin 1844 ) the prevailing protectionist views confronted.
After the fall of the July Monarchy ( February 1848 ) he rushed to Berlin and presented to the king on 17 March a memorandum, in which he pressed for liberal reforms and compliance with a German - national policy. From him went out the important manifestation of the king for the German cause ( 21 March). On the same day he resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the first led by Adolf Heinrich von Arnim - Boitzenburg, then by Ludolf Campenhausen new ministry, which, however, already resigned June 20.
Arnim lived on for a time as a private citizen in Neuwied and tried by some pamphlets (Frankfurt and Berlin, Frankfurt 1848; About the Mediatisationsfrage, Frankfurt, 1849) to contribute to a mediating solution to the German question. From 1849 to 1851 a member of the First Chamber, he held to the German - constitutional party and fought against both the internal and the feeble foreign policy of the now victorious reaction in energischter way. Even greater impression than his speeches and proposals made the publication of some " indignant " speeches ( On the politics of the epigones in Prussia, Berlin 1850 On the politics of counter-revolution in Prussia, Berlin 1851). Because of the latter pamphlet Arnim was made at the behest of the feudal and sentenced despite a shiny, later published by his defense to a fine. Since then he has lived away from the political scene until he was elected after the fall of the Ministry Manteuffel 1858 by a Berlin state parliament for the constituency. But he was prevented by ill-health to devote the time raising new era of Prussian life its full force. He died on January 5, 1861 in Dusseldorf. Spreading knowledge, experience of the world and sincerity won him early on an important personal reputation.