Arnim, Hans Georg Von
Soldier and statesman prominent in German affairs during the Thirty Years' War. He served (1613 - 17) with the Swedes under Gustaf II Adolf, with the Poles (1621), with Wallenstein's imperial army (1626) as a field marshal, and with the Saxons (1631 - 35, 1638 - 41). A strict Lutheran, Arnim resigned his imperial commission in protest against the Edict
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