Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim

Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim-Boitzenburg (31 December 1739 – 21 January 1801) was a Prussian civil servant and Minister of War.

Early life Arnim was born 31 December 1739 in Berlin into the noble Arnim family. He was the only child of Abraham Wilhelm von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1712–1761), and Anna Elisabeth von der Schulenburg (eldest daughter of Adolph Friedrich von der Schulenburg). His paternal grandfather was Georg Dietloff von Arnim-Boitzenburg.

Career

After studying law in Göttingen, he began his career in the Prussian civil service as a councilor at the Chamber Court in Berlin. In 1764, he became a councilor and assessor at the Uckermark Higher Court, and in 1769 he became a secret judicial councilor and director of the Pupillary college and the Uckermark Higher Court, which he presided over until 1780. In 1786 he was appointed real secret budget, war and directing minister and vice president of the general directorate. who married Georgine Charlotte Auguste von Wallmoden-Gimborn, a daughter of Johann Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Wallmoden-Gimborn (himself an illegitimate son of King George II of Great Britain by his mistress Amalie von Wallmoden).

Arnim died in Berlin on 21 January 1801.