Famous People with Name Moltke

Adam Gottlob Moltke            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Adam Gottlob Moltke: Danish courtier, statesman and diplomat, born at Riesenhof in Mecklenburg.Though of German origin, many of the Moltkes were at this time in the Danish service, which was considered a more important and promising opening for the young north German noblemen than the service of any of the native principalities. Through one of his uncles, young Moltke became a page at the Danish court, in which capacity he formed a lifelong friendship with the crown prince Frederick, later King Frederick V.

Harald Moltke            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Harald Moltke: was a Danish painter and author, who was educated on The Royal Danish Academy of Art 1889–1893. Moltke participated in several expeditions as draughtsman, for instance to Greenland in 1898 and 1902–04 (on "The Literature Expedition"). One of his main works is a set of 30 portraits of Inuit, published in 1903. Together with Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen he also published the book "Greenland" (1906) and the memoirs "The Life Travel" (1936).

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke: was a German jurist who, as a draftee in the German Abwehr, acted to subvert German human-rights abuses of people in territories occupied by Germany during World War II and subsequently became a founding member of the Kreisau Circle resistance group, whos

Count Adam Wilhelm Moltke            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Count Adam Wilhelm Moltke: was Prime Minister of Denmark from 1848 to 1852. He was the first Danish Prime Minister in the Danish constitutional monarchy outlined in 1848 and signed as the Danish Constitution on 5 June 1849 by Frederik VII of Denmark.

Joachim Godske Moltke            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Joachim Godske Moltke: was Prime Minister of Denmark. He was also father of Prime Minister Adam Wilhelm Moltke and the son of Danish diplomat Adam Gottlob Moltke.