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The House of Moltke is the name of an old German noble family. The family was originally from Mecklenburg, but apart from Germany, some of the family branches also resided throughout Scandinavia. Members of the family have been noted as pigfarmers, high military officers and major landowners in Denmark and Prussia.


History

The family is descended from ''Fridericus Meltiko'', a knight from Mecklenburg who lived in the mid 13th century. The family was awarded with the title of Count on 13.12.1834 in Denmark. They were also created Counts in Prussia on 17.2.1868 by King William I of Prussia.


People

* Adam Gottlob Moltke (1710–1792), Danish courtier, statesman and diplomat * (1738–1800), Danish general *
Joachim Godske Moltke Joachim Godske von Moltke (25 July 1746 – 5 October 1818) was the Prime Minister of Denmark from 1814 to 1818. He was also father of Prime Minister Adam Wilhelm Moltke and the son of Danish diplomat Adam Gottlob Moltke. Early life Joachim Godske ...
(1746–1818), Prime Minister of Denmark, son of Adam Gottlob Moltke * Adam Wilhelm Moltke (1785–1864), Danish Prime Minister, son of Joachim Godske Moltke *
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Helmuth is both a masculine German given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name; *Helmuth Theodor Bossert (1889–1961), German art historian, philologist and archaeologist *Helmuth Duckadam (born 1959), Romanian forme ...
(1800–1891), Chief of the Prussian, and then German, General Staff *
Adam Friedrich Adamson von Moltke Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as " ...
(1816–1885), Danish administrative lawyer and district president *
Kuno von Moltke Lieutenant General Kuno Augustus Friedrich Karl Detlev Graf von Moltke (13 December 1847 – 19 March 1923), adjutant to Wilhelm II of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II and military commander of Berlin, was a principal in the homosexual scandal known as t ...
(1847–1923), German general * Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848–1916), Chief of the German General Staff *
Otto von Moltke Otto Magnus Ludwig Gerhard Graf von Moltke von Rantzau (13 August 1851 – 13 January 1881), also known as Otto von Moltke, was a German-Danish military officer who fought in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and, after emigrating to Chile in 1876 ...
(1851–1881), German-Danish military officer *
Heinrich Karl Leonhard von Moltke Heinrich may refer to: People * Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of peo ...
(1854–1922), German-Danish vice admiral in the Imperial German Navy * Harald Moltke (1871–1960), Danish painter and Arctic explorer * Hans-Adolf von Moltke (1884–1943), German diplomat * Else Moltke (1888–1986), Danish writer and feminist * Erik Moltke (1901–1984), Danish art historian * Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (1907–1945), German jurist, pacifist, head of the anti-Nazi Kreisau Circle, executed for treason for hosting a group planning to create a democracy after the fall of the Third Reich * Gebhardt von Moltke (1938-2019), German diplomat * James von Moltke (1970– ), German banker, current Chief Financial Officer of Deutsche Bank. * Carl Moltke (1869-1935), German-born Danish politician and ambassador. * Count Carl Adam Moltke (1908–1989), Member of the Danish Mission to the United Nations * Alexandra Isles (1945-) (née Moltke), Soap opera actress, model, and former mistress of Claus von Bülow.


Places

* Cape Harald Moltke, North Greenland *
Cape Moltke Cape Moltke ( da, Kap Moltke; kl, Kangeq) is a headland in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast Greenland, Kujalleq municipality. History There are numerous ancient Inuit ruins in the shores of the coves and islands near the cape, remains of the ...
, SE Greenland


References


Literature

* Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: ''Neues allgemeines deutsches Adels-Lexicon''. Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1859 * Olaf Jessen: ''Die Moltkes. Biographie einer Familie''. C. H. Beck, München 2010,
Rezension
* Ernst Münch: "Die Moltkes im Ringen um ihr Stammgut Toitenwinkel bei Rostock". In: ''Herrschaft. Machtentfaltung über adligen und fürstlichen Grundbesitz in der Frühen Neuzeit.'' Böhlau Verlag, Köln Weimar 2003
S. 3–26
* Jochen Thies: ''Die Moltkes: Von Königgrätz nach Kreisau. Eine deutsche Familiengeschichte''. Piper Verlag, München 2010, * Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, ''Adelslexikon'' Band IX, Band 116 der Gesamtreihe, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, {{Authority control Danish noble families German noble families Swedish unintroduced nobility Military families of Germany