Friedrich Abraham Wilhelm von Arnim explained

Friedrich von Arnim
Office:Prussian Envoy to Saxony
Term Start:1792
Term End:1794
Predecessor:Karl Friedrich von Gessler
Successor:Karl Christian von Brockhausen
Birth Name:Friedrich Abraham Wilhelm von Arnim-Boitzenburg
Birth Place:Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
Parents:Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim-Boitzenburg
Freda Antoinette von Cramm
Relations:Adolph Friedrich von der Schulenburg (grandfather)
Georg Dietloff von Arnim-Boitzenburg (grandfather)

Friedrich Abraham Wilhelm von Arnim-Boitzenburg (13 June 1767 – 31 January 1812), was a Prussian politician and diplomat who served as Envoy to Saxony and Denmark).[1]

Early life

Arnim was born in Berlin on 13 June 1767 into the prominent and wealthy Arnim family. He was the only surviving child of Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1739–1801) and Baroness Freda Antoinette von Cramm (1747–1817). His father served as Chief Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1786 to 1798 under Kings Frederick William II (who raised him to a hereditary Prussian Count on 2 October 1786) and Frederick William III.[2]

His maternal grandparents were Baron Franz Jakob von Cramm and Anna Magdalena Wilhelmine von Krosigk. His father was the only child of Abraham Wilhelm von Arnim-Boitzenburg (son of Georg Dietloff von Arnim-Boitzenburg), and Anna Elisabeth von der Schulenburg (eldest daughter of Adolph Friedrich von der Schulenburg).[3]

Career

From a long line of Prussian landowners, Arnim was admitted to the Order of St. John and served as chamberlain to King Frederick William II.[4] He was a legation councilor before becoming Envoy in Dresden (to the Kingdom of Saxony) from 1792 to 1794 and in Copenhagen (to the Kingdom of Denmark).[5]

Personal life

On 18 July 1795 Arnim was married to Georgine Charlotte Auguste (von Wallmoden-Gimborn) von Lichtenstein (1770–1850), the divorced former wife of Baron, a German opera singer and composer. The eldest daughter of the Hanoverian field marshal and art collector Johann Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Wallmoden-Gimborn and Charlotte Christiane Auguste Wilhelmine von Wangenheim, her father was an illegitimate son of King George II of Great Britain by his mistress Amalie von Wallmoden.[6] Among her siblings were brother Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, the Austrian General of Cavalry, and sister Wilhelmine Magdalene Friederike (wife of Baron Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom Stein).[7] Before their divorce in 1806, they were the parents of:[8]

After their divorce, she married Louis Charles Henri, the Marquis le Marchant de Charmont, Captain of the Cuirassiers, in Nancy in 1824.[12]

Arnim died on 31 January 1812. His eldest son Friedrich Ludwig inherited Zichow and Kleinow estates in 1820 and acquired Blumberg in 1836 for 146,000 thalers.[13] [14]

Descendants

Through his son Adolf, he was a grandfather of politician Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1832–1887), governor of Silesia who was president of German Reichstag for a short time in 1880, and Marie von Arnim-Boitzenburg (wife of Karl Friedrich von Savigny).[15]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Arnim, Friedrich Abraham Wilhelm von . www.deutsche-biographie.de . . 15 January 2024 . de.
  2. Book: The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who", of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe . 1914 . Harrison & Sons . 267 . 15 January 2024 . en.
  3. Web site: Arnim, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von . www.deutsche-biographie.de . . 15 January 2024 . de.
  4. Web site: Arnim (-Boitzenburg), Friedrich Abraham Wilhelm Graf von (1767-1812) . www.bundesarchiv.de . . 16 January 2024.
  5. Web site: Porträt von Friedrich Abraham Wilhelm Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg . www.lostart.de . . 16 January 2024.
  6. Book: Nitschke . Wolf . Adolf Heinrich Graf v. Arnim-Boitzenburg (1803-1868). Eine politische Biographie. . 2011 . Duncker & Humblot . 978-3-428-51114-3 . 48 . 16 January 2024 . de.
  7. Book: Barclay . David E. . Frederick William IV and the Prussian Monarchy, 1840-1861 . 1995 . Clarendon Press . 978-0-19-820430-5 . 21 . 15 January 2024 . en.
  8. Book: Zedlitz . Leopold Freiherr von . Neues preussisches Adels-Lexicon, oder, Genealogische und diplomatische Nachrichten: -6.Bd. Supplement . 1839 . Gebrüder Reichenbach . 7 . 16 January 2024 . de.
  9. Book: Wiese . René . Jandausch . Kathleen . Schwestern im Geiste: Briefwechsel zwischen Großherzogin Alexandrine von Mecklenburg-Schwerin und Königin Elisabeth von Preußen. Teil 1: 1824-1850 . 9 August 2021 . Böhlau Köln . 978-3-412-52225-4 . 65 . 16 January 2024 . de.
  10. Web site: Arnim, Friedrich Ludwig von . portal.dnb.de . Catalog of the German National Library . 16 January 2024.
  11. Book: Titz-Matuszak . Ingeborg . Bernhard August von Lindenau (1779-1854): Teil 2: Reden, Schriften, Briefe. Eine Auswahl . 12 December 2016 . Springer-Verlag . 978-3-476-03402-1 . 314, 373 . 16 January 2024 . de.
  12. Book: Vierteljahrsschrift für Heraldik, Sphragistik und Genealogie . 1873 . 238 . 16 January 2024 . de.
  13. Web site: Arnim-Blumberg, Friedrich Ludwig Count of . actaborussica.bbaw.de . Praktiken der Monarchie . 16 January 2024.
  14. Web site: Arnim-Boitzenburg, Friedrich Ludwig, Graf von . edition-humboldt.de . edition humboldt digital . 16 January 2024.
  15. Book: Fontane . Theodor . On Tangled Paths . 6 June 2013 . Penguin UK . 978-0-14-139218-9 . 205 . 16 January 2024 . en.