Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg
| Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg | |
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| 1st Minister President of Prussia | |
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In office 19 March – 29 March 1848 |
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| Monarch | Frederick William IV |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen |
| Interior Minister of Prussia | |
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In office 1842–1845 |
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| Preceded by | Gustav Adolf Rochus von Rochow |
| Succeeded by | Ernst von Bodelschwingh-Velmede |
| Foreign Minister of Prussia | |
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In office 19 March – 21 March 1848 |
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| Preceded by | Karl Ernst Wilhelm von Canitz und Dallwitz |
| Succeeded by | Heinrich Alexander von Arnim |
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| Born | 10 April 1803 Berlin, Prussia |
| Died | 8 January 1868 (aged 64) Boitzenburg Castle, Brandenburg, Prussia |
| Political party | None |
GrafAdolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg (10 April 1803 – 8 January 1868) was a German statesman. He served as the first Minister President of Prussia for ten days during the Revolution of 1848.
Arnim was born in the Prussian capital Berlin, the son of envoy Friedrich Abraham Wilhelm von Arnim (1767–1812) and his wife Georgine von Wallmoden-Grimborn (1770–1859), a daughter of the Hanoverian field marshal and art collector Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn and thereby presumably a grand-daughter of King George II of Great Britain. His parents divorced, when he was three years old.
Having finished his studies in Berlin and Göttingen in 1825, he joined the Prussian Guards Uhlans regiment as One-year volunteer and afterwards entered civil service at the Kammergericht. In 1830 he was appointed Landrat official in the Uckermark district and in 1833 he became Vice-president of the Pomeranian Stralsund government region. One year later he later assumed the position of President in the Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) region, from 1838 in Merseburg, Saxony. In 1840 he became governor (Oberpräsident) of the Grand Duchy of Posen.
In 1842 Arnim was called back to Berlin, to be appointed Prussian State Minister of the Interior. Nevertheless, he resigned in 1845, after his plans to draft a Prussian Constitution were aborted by King Frederick William IV. When the March Revolution broke out in 1848, his services were again in demand. From 19 March 1848 he acted as the first Prussian Minister President and Foreign Minister, however, he again resigned within a few days, after the king chose to place himself at the head of the revolutionary movement.
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