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He was born on October 3, 1824 at the Moitzelfitz estate in Pomerania. Harry von Arni was a member of one of the most numerous and most widely spread families of the Prussian nobility. His parents were Christian Ernst von Arnim (1792-1842) and his wife Auguste von Blankenburg (1795-1849).
He was brought up by his uncle Heinrich von Arnim, who was Prussian ambassador at Paris and foreign minister in March 1848, while Count Arnim-Boytzenburg, whose daughter Harry von Arnim afterwards married, was prime minister.
Education
Harry von Arnim studied law.
Career
Arnim entered the diplomatic service in 1850 and served in Rome (1853–55) and Lisbon (1862).
He was appointed Prussian envoy to the Holy See in 1864.
Before the first Vatican Council of 1869–70, he made proposals intended to prevent a declaration of papal infallibility, which, he foresaw, would create certain political difficulties in Germany.
Arnim took part in the negotiations to end the Franco-German War and was appointed Prussian envoy to France on Aug. 23, 1871, becoming ambassador on Jan. 9, 1872.
In June 1872 he arranged the war reparations settlement with France, but differences soon arose between him and Bismarck. Arnim, who supported the French monarchists, considered that Bismarck’s backing of the new republican regime in France would encourage opponents of the monarchy in Germany. Arnim’s favour at court and his support of the conservative groups among the German nobility led Bismarck to suspect that Arnim was planning to supplant him.
Then in 1874 a Viennese newspaper published correspondence on the Vatican Council, including some of Arnim’s confidential dispatches, with the apparent aim of suggesting that he had exhibited greater foresight than Bismarck. The subsequent inquiry revealed that more important documents from Arnim’s Paris embassy were missing.
Arnim refused to return some of the missing documents and so was suspected of keeping them in order to prove that his own French policy had been wiser than Bismarck’s. Bismarck thereupon had him temporarily superannuated, then arrested (Oct. 4, 1874). Condemned to three months’ imprisonment, Arnim appealed, but his sentence was increased to nine months.
Arnim went into exile and anonymously published Pro Nihilo (1875), a pamphlet attributing his disgrace to Bismarck’s jealousy. Convicted of treason, of insulting the emperor, and of libeling Bismarck, Arnim was sentenced in absentia to five years’ penal servitude. Since the legal grounds for Arnim’s prosecution had been doubtful, Bismarck obtained passage of the Arnim Paragraph in 1876.
His request had just been granted when he died at Nice in 1881.
Achievements
Count Harry von Arnim was a Prussian diplomat whose indiscreetly expressed opposition to German chancellor Otto von Bismarck led to his prosecution and gave rise to the so-called Arnim Paragraph, an addition to the German criminal code that made unauthorized disclosures of official documents a criminal offense.
In 1876 Bismarck carried an amendment to the criminal code making it an offence punishable with imprisonment or a fine up to £250 for an official of the foreign office to communicate to others official documents, or for an envoy to act contrary to his instructions. These clauses were commonly spoken of in Germany as the “Arnim paragraphs. ”
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Politics
Arnim, who supported the French monarchists, considered that Bismarck’s backing of the new republican regime in France would encourage opponents of the monarchy in Germany.
Connections
He married Elise von Prillwitz on June 28, 1846 (23 June 1827 in Berlin, 22 December 1854 in Rome), the daughter of Auguste von Prillwitz . The couple had a son.
After her death, he married Sophie Adelheid of Arnim-Boitzenburg (1836-1918), a daughter of Count Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg, on 21 April 1857 in Berlin . The couple had three daughters.
Father:
Christian Ernst von Arnim
(1792-1842)
Mother:
Auguste von Blankenburg
(1795-1849)
Spouse:
Sophie Adelheid of Arnim-Boitzenburg
(1836-1918)
Spouse:
Elise von Prillwitz
He was the daughter of Auguste von Prillwitz.
Uncle:
Heinrich Alexander von Arnim(-Suckow)
(born 13 February 1798 in Berlin; died 5 January 1861 in Düsseldorf)
