Heinrich Friedrich von Arnim-Heinrichsdorff-Werbelow

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Heinrich Friedrich von Arnim-Heinrichsdorff-Werbelow
Foreign minister of Prussia
In office
24 February – 30 April 1849
MonarchFrederick William IV
Preceded byHans von Bülow
Succeeded byFriedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg
Personal details
Born(1791-09-23)23 September 1791
Werbelow/Uckermark, Kingdom of Prussia
Died18 April 1859(1859-04-18) (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

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

  1. ^ Regarding personal names: Until 1919, Graf was a title, translated as Count, not a first or middle name. The female form is Gräfin. In Germany, it has formed part of family names since 1919.

References

  1. ISBN 978-3-11-076903-6
    . Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Arnim-Heinrichsdorff, Heinrich Friedrich Graf von". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  3. ^ John Belchem and Richard Price, eds. A Dictionary of 19th-Century World History (1994) p 41.
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