Heinrich Friedrich von Arnim-Heinrichsdorff-Werbelow
Heinrich Friedrich von Arnim-Heinrichsdorff-Werbelow | |
|---|---|
| Foreign minister of Prussia | |
| In office 24 February – 30 April 1849 | |
| Monarch | Frederick William IV |
| Preceded by | Hans von Bülow |
| Succeeded by | Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 September 1791 |
| Died | 18 April 1859 (aged 67) Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia |
Heinrich Friedrich Graf[a] von Arnim-Heinrichsdorff-Werbelow (23 September 1791 – 18 April 1859) was a Prussian statesman.
Early life
Arnim was born on 23 September 1791 in Werbelow in the Kingdom of Prussia. He was the son of the Privy Councilor Heinrich August von Arnim (1760–1834) and Christine Ulrike Bernhardine von Borcke-Stargordt (1773–1818), and a was grandson of Werner Friedrich Abraham von Arnim.
Career
Arnim participated in the War of the Sixth Coalition and then embarked on a diplomatic career. After working as legation secretary in Stockholm and in Paris, he was the Prussian envoy in Brussels from 1831, from 1841 in Paris and in Vienna from 1845 to 1848, where he acted entirely in accordance with Metternich's politics. He became an important advisor to king Frederick William IV of Prussia during the revolution of 1848. He encouraged the King to grant concessions to liberals and support German unification under Prussian leadership.[1]
On 24 February 1849 he was appointed Foreign Minister of Prussia, And pursued a revolutionary foreign policy, reversing ties with the reactionary states of Russia and Austria. He sought with little success to gain French and British support for the creation of the German national state, and for the restoration of Polish independence. He resigned on 3 May 1849, as he did not agree with the German policy of the foreign ministry. From 1851 to 1857 he was once again Prussian ambassador to Vienna, he cultivated good relations with Austria as much as possible, which he saw as an indispensable ally of Prussia.[2] He was a member of the Prussian House of Lords from 1857 until his death.[3]
Personal life
Arnim-Heinrichsdorff-Werbelow died in Berlin, unmarried, on 18 April 1859.[2]
Notes
- ^ Regarding personal names: Graf was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as Count. Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix (von, zu, etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke). Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting. The feminine form is Gräfin.
References
- ^ Pásztorová, Barbora (7 March 2022). Metternich, the German Question and the Pursuit of Peace: 1840–1848. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 161. ISBN 978-3-11-076903-6. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ a b "Arnim-Heinrichsdorff, Heinrich Friedrich Graf von". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ John Belchem and Richard Price, eds. A Dictionary of 19th-Century World History (1994) p 41.