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Coat of arms of those of Moltke

Moltke is the name of an old Mecklenburg nobility, which has also spread in several lines in Denmark since the 18th century.

Origins [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

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Those from Moltke belong to the Mecklenburg Uradel. The gender first appeared on September 19, 1254 in Wismar with the brothers and knights Frederick Meltiko, soldier and Johannes Moltike as followers Johann I. von Mecklenburg . [first] [2] The trunk series begins with the Friedrich mentioned. The family name is most likely derived from the village of Moltow (mnd. Moltekowe, now belonging to high Viecheln, located south of Wismar). [3] Local and family name carry the Slavic root together Moltek that a reduction of slamlate , the Hammer According to other views, Birkhuhn should be the heraldic animal of the sex. The families Berkhahn and Karin were relatives with the Moltkes.

In the second half of the 13th century, the Moltkes migrated from the Mecklenburg rule to neighboring Rostock rule, where they quickly rose to the leading noble family. Johann Moltke in Toitenwinkel (1271/1309) was Truchsess Waldemar from Rostock and, after his death, actually led the guardian transactions for the sovereign sons of the sovereign. In the area of ​​the Rostock area, the Moltkes subsequently acquired numerous goods. On December 27, 1280, they are co -signers Ribnitz documents [4] And in 1295 Johannis de Moltke was a pastor of the Ribnitz city church. [5] Amalie Eleonore von Moltke is dominatrix of the Klarissenkloster Ribnitz in 1756-1777.

In the early 14th century, the knights of Moltke were mentioned at Strietfeld Castle (now belonging to Lühburg and a vorwerk of the Dalwitz estate), the Toitenwinkel Castle (until 1679, numerous gravestones and epitaphs are located in the village church of the Toitenwinkel), in Detershagen, plennin , in Klein Belitz with Neukirchen, in Wokrent (today in Jürgenshagen) and in Wendischhagen (today belonging to Malchin), since the 15th century to 1786 on Samow, from 1545 to 1816 on Schorssow, on Walkendorf (17th century to 1830 ), since the middle of the 17th century on Bülow (until 1816).

A major stage when the Moltke family was promoted was the Alliance of Johann Moltkes in Toitenwinkel (1271/1309) with the Danish King Erich VI, as a result of which Rostock was a Danish fief, but the Moltkes as a Danish war entrepreneur was plentiful. After the rule of Rostock had fallen to Mecklenburg, the moltkes of the Strietfeld line under Heinrich II, Albrecht II and Albrecht III. von Mecklenburg continued their war entrepreneurial activity and expanded the Strietfeld ownership complex to one of the largest Mecklenburg. Based on this possession complex, numerous sovereign councils from the family emerged in the late Middle Ages. In addition, in the 14th century, the Mecklenburg bailiffs Ribnitz, Ticino, Gnoien, Strelitz and Boizenburg were temporarily in the family’s deposit or feudal ownership. [3]

In the middle of the 18th century, various branches of those of Moltke held significant property. The Eberhard Friedrich Ehrenreich von Moltke, born in 1727, as the provisional of the Ribnitz monastery and a chief of the Gnoien office, Walkendorf, Strietfeld Castle, Friedrichsdorf, Dorotheenwalde, SchorsSow, Ziddorf, Tessenow and Bülow. After that, however, the possession took more and more at the beginning of the 20th century that Moltke in the Ribnitz area hardly had any significant property.

In the Dobbertin monastery book, there are 16 entries from daughters from the von Moltke family from 1696 to 1863 from Walkendorf, Schorssow and Samow for admission to the noble lady’s pencil there.

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In the 14th century, the Moltkes were also located in the Principality of Rügen and the Kingdoms Denmark and Sweden and were honored there. Under Albrecht III. The family came from Mecklenburg Johann Moltke (1366/89) to Sweden, but he fell in the Battle of Falköping in 1389.

The Mecklenburg tribe gradually spread, came to great property, including the estate on the Wustrow peninsula and later branched back to Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania, also to Prussia, Thuringia, Württemberg, Bavaria and Austria .

Numerous officers came from the family, including the two Prussian chiefs of general staff Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke († 1891) and Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke († 1916).

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The Prussian general field marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke, as head of the large general staff and commanding troop leader significantly involved in the Prussian victory in the Prussian-Austrian War of 1866 and in the Franco-German war of 1871, came from Samow. He acquired the Kreisau Gut in Lower Silesia as a retirement seat. He was raised in the hereditary Prussian count on October 28, 1870. [6]

His great -grandnefficient Helmuth James Graf von Moltke was one of the leading heads of the Kreisauer Kreis resistance group and was executed as a resistance fighter in the Third Reich in 1945.

Helmuth von Moltke (1848-1916), named Moltke of the younger , Prussian Colonel General and Boss of the Great General Staff in the First World War, there was no descendant Helmuth of the elderly , but a son of his brother Adolf von Moltke, also from the branch of Samow.

  • Allianzwappen derer von Moltke (links) und Burt über dem Portal von Schloss Kreisau

    Alliance coat of arms of those of Moltke (left) and Burt above the portal of Castle Kreisau

  • Wappen der Grafen von Moltke-Kreisau

    Counts of the Counts of Moltke-Kreisau

Danish lines [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The family was given several Danish cessions. Adam Gottlob von Moltke (1710–1792), from the Strietfeld tribe and was born at Gut Walkendorf in Mecklenburg, was raised as a royal Danish Oberhofmarschall on March 31, 1750. [6] In 1746 he received the Bregentved Castle near Haslev on the Danish island of Seeland with over 6000 hectares of forest and arable land. The Danish line back to Adam Gottlob provided numerous generals, ministers and diplomats as well as several Prime Minister of Denmark. Today’s owner of Bregentved Castle is Christian Georg Peter Lehnsgraf Moltke (* 1959). One of the four palaces of today’s Royal Residence Schloss Amalienborg in Copenhagen was in 1754 for Adam Gottlob as Moltke palace built. Prime Minister Adam Wilhelm Moltke acquired another palace in Copenhagen in 1852, which was built in 1680 Moltke’s Mansion which was owned by his grandson until 1930.

Adam Gottlob also acquired the Glorup Castle in Svindinge Sogn and 1766 in 1766 Rygård Castle in Langå Sogn, both of which are still owned by the Counts Moltke-Huitfeldt. Together with Anhof (sold in 1916), they formed the family fide committee from 1793 Stamhuset Moltkenborg . Count Léon Moltke-Huitfeldt (1829–1896) was a Danish ambassador in Paris at the time when his Prussian cousin Helmuth besieged the city and the fall of Napoléon III. caused. Léon’s son, Count Adam Carl von Moltke-Hvitfeld (1864–1944), married Louise Eugenie Bonaparte, a daughter of Napoleon III in 1896. American nephew Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte-Patterson II.

From 1763 to 1832, the Noer Castle in Schleswig-Holstein was also owned by the Danish line and belonged. the Count Magnus von Moltke, briefly the green wood estate.

  • Schloss Bregentved (seit 1746 bis heute im Besitz)

    Bregentved Castle (owned since 1746 until today)

  • Schloss Glorup (seit 1762 bis heute im Besitz)

    Glorup Castle (owned since 1762 until today)

  • Schloss Rygård (seit 1766 bis heute im Besitz)

    Rygård Castle (owned since 1766 until today)

  • Moltkes Palæ, Kopenhagen

    Moltkes Mansion, Copenhagen

Another Danish line decreases to the Danish General Johann Georg von Moltke (1703–1764), a brother of Adam Gottlob, which also has high officers and ministers and is still in bloom. One of the grandchildren Johann Georgs, Georg Moltke-Rosenkrantz (1786–1846), was made in 1828, under the name and coat of arms association with the feudal roskrantz, Baron Moltke-Rosenkrantz raised. [6]

Werner Jasper Andreas von Moltke (1755–1835) from the Walkendorf (Schorssow line) was raised to the Danish Lehnsgrafen stand in 1834 as the royal Danish senior president and office of the Faroe Islands (based in Copenhagen). [6] His son was Count Ludwig von Moltke.

The family’s coat of arms shows three (2.1) black birch taps in silver. On the helmet with black and silver blankets, both seven and eight fan-like gold spickel are placed, each with a natural peacock feather.

Helmuth von Moltke (1848-1916), named Moltke of the younger , Prussian Colonel General and Boss of the Great General Staff
  • Johann Moltke in Noodenwinkel (1271/1309), LANDESTERLICHER RAT, Truchsess
  • Johann Moltke in Strietfeld (1318/38), sovereign advice, war entrepreneur
  • Johann Moltke in Strietfeld (1341/64), sovereign advice, war entrepreneur
  • Friedrich Moltke in Strietfeld (1353/90), ducal advice, war entrepreneur
  • Heinrich Moltke in Westenbrügge (1339/96), ducal advice, court judge
  • Johann Moltke in Strietfeld (1365/1407), ducal advice, war entrepreneur
  • Otto Moltke in Strietfeld (1440/86), Mecklenburg district administrator
  • Ludolf Moltke in Strietfeld (1472/1532), Mecklenburg district administrator
  • Adam Gottlob von Moltke (1710-1792), Danish Oberhofmarschall am Hof ​​in Copenhagen
  • Friedrich Casimir Sievert von Moltke (1730–1783), Provisor 1773/83 in the Klarissenkloster Ribnitz
  • Adam Gottlob Detlev von Moltke (1765–1843), German-Danish landowner, poet and poet
  • Adam Wilhelm Moltke (1785–1864), Danish politician Mecklenburg origin, Council President (Prime Minister) of Denmark from 1848 to 1852
  • Carin Moltke (approx. 1520–1564), Mecklenburg landlord on Toitenwinkel
  • Carl Poul Oscar Graf Moltke (1869–1935), Danish diplomat and Foreign Minister
  • Konrad von Moltke (1861–1937), German Major General
  • Erik Moltke, Danish art historian
  • Freya von Moltke (1911–2010), wife of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, resistance fighter against National Socialism, writer, lawyer
  • Friedrich Philipp Victor von Moltke (1768–1845), Prussian officer and Danish general, father of Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke and Louis von Moltke and grandfather of Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke
  • Friedrich Adamson von Moltke (1816–1885), German-Danish administrative lawyer and government president
  • Friedrich von Moltke (1852–1927), President of East Prussia, Prussian Interior Minister, brother of Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke
  • Gabriele von Moltke (* 1968), head of the Berliner Abendschau (RBB) since 2017 [7]
  • Count Friedrich Ludwig von Moltke (1745–1824), the last cathedral dean of the Lübeck Hochstift
  • Gebhard von Moltke (1567–1644), Mecklenburg landowner and politician of the Wallenstein period
  • Gebhardt von Moltke (1938–2019), German ambassador
  • Hans-Adolf von Moltke (1884–1943), German ambassador
  • Harald Moltke (1871–1960), Danish portrait and landscape painter, polar researcher
  • Heinrich Karl Leonhard Graf von Moltke (1854–1922), Imperial German Vice Admiral
  • Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (1907–1945), resistance fighters in the Third Reich, great -grand nephew by Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke
  • Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke (1848–1916), Prussian Colonel of General and head of the Great General Staff, nephew by Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke
  • Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (1800–1891), Prussian General Field Marshal and head of the Great General Stab
  • James von Moltke (* 1969), member of the board of the Deutsche Bank
  • Joachim von Moltke (1891–1956), Nazi official and member of the Reichstag (1942–1945)
  • Joachim Friedrich von Moltke (1618–1677), German lawyer and the last heir on Toitenwinkel
  • Joachim Wolfgang von Moltke (1909–2002), brother of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, director of the Bielefeld Kunsthalle
  • Karl von Moltke (General) (1787–1853), Austrian field marshal lieutenant
  • Karl von Moltke (1798-1866), Danish minister
  • Kuno von Moltke (1847–1923), Lieutenant General, City Commander of Berlin
  • Ludwig Graf Moltke (1790-1864), Danish diplomat and Amtmann
  • Louis von Moltke (1805–1889), Danish-German administrative lawyer, government council in the Duchy of Lauenburg, brother of Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke
  • Magnus von Moltke (1783–1864), Schleswig-Holstein lawyer and politician
  • Maximilian Leopold Moltke (1819-1894), poet of the Transylvania song
  • Otto von Moltke (1847-1928), officer, politician and Klostersprobst in Uetersen (1891–1912)
  • Otto Joachim Moltke (1770-1853), Danish Minister of State and Prime Minister in 1824-1842
  • Paul Friedrich von Moltke (1786-1846), Russian diplomat
  • Philipp von Moltke, High Commanding on July 9, 1745 in the Battle of Melle in the War of the Austrian Succession
  • Werner Jasper Andreas von Moltke (1755–1835), Danish office of Faroe Islands
  • Werner von Moltke (1936–2019), German athlete and sports official
  • Wilhelm von Moltke (1845–1905), Prussian lieutenant general and member of the manor house
  • Olaf Jessen: The Moltkes. Biography of a family. C. H. Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60499-7 ( review )
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German Adels-Lexicon. Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1859, Volume 6, S.335
  • Hans Körner: Moltke, from. In: New German biography (Ndb). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0, p. 12 f. ( Digitized ).
  • Ernst Münch: The moltkes in the struggle for their main goods toitenwinkel near Rostock. In: Rule. Folding power over noble and princely property in the early modern period. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar 2003, S. 3–26 .
  • Jochen Thies: The Moltkes. From Königgrätz to Kreisau. A German family history. Piper Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-05380-8.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility, Adels lexicon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the overall series, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Gothaic genealogical paperback of the noble houses in 1901. First year, S.630ff
  • Gothaic genealogical paperback of the count’s houses in 1870, S.690ff
  1. ↑ Pomersche’s document book 593.
  2. ↑ Mecklenburg document book (MUB) Volume II. Schwerin (1864) No. 734.
  3. ↑ a b Tobias Pietsch: The Moltkes in the late Middle Ages . In: Mecklenburg yearbooks . Band 125 , 2010, S. 141–174 .
  4. ↑ (Mub) Band II. (1864) No. 1553.
  5. ↑ (Mub) Volume III. (1865) No. 2311.
  6. ↑ a b c d Genealogical manual of the nobility, Adels lexicon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the overall series, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN  0435-2408 , S. 141 ff.
  7. ↑ Gabriele von Moltke (49) leads the editorial team of the Berlin “evening show” RBB September 1, 2019.
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