Adolf von Moltke

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Adolf von Moltke

Adolf von Moltke , also Adolph von Moltke , complete Bernhard Adolf Erdmann Georg von Moltke (born April 8, 1804 in Lübeck , † April 7, 1871 in Lugano ) was a German administrative lawyer in the Danish and Prussian services; he was the last administrator of the County of Rantzau and the first district administrator of the Pinneberg district .

origin

Adolf von Moltke came from the Mecklenburg noble family von Moltke . He was the middle son of the future Danish Lieutenant General Friedrich Philipp Victor von Moltke (1768-1845) and his wife Henriette Sophie, née Paschen (1776-1837), who came from Lübeck. From 1801 to 1803 the family lived on Gut Gnewitz and then moved to Lübeck, where Adolf was born. After the father entered the Danish military service in 1806, the family moved to Denmark. The later Prussian chief of staff Helmuth Karl Bernhard (1800-1891) was his older brother and the later government councilor Louis von Moltke (1805-1889) his younger brother.

Life

In his youth he was considered "a weak boy with delicate facial features"; he had to struggle with health problems throughout his life.

He studied law at the University of Berlin and from the summer semester of 1825 at the University of Heidelberg .

Moltke (2nd from left) as a member of the Joint Government in 1848

In 1828 he passed the legal examination before the Gottorf Higher Court . In 1829 he became secretary at Landdrosten in Pinneberg , in 1834 head of bureau at the Schleswig-Holstein government in Gottorf and in 1836 councilor at the Higher Court for Holstein in Glückstadt . In 1843 he came to Copenhagen as a deputy of the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg Chancellery .

In 1848 he was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state assembly . After the Treaty of Malmö (1848) he was appointed to the common government (Schleswig-Holstein) .

In 1849 he became the administrator of the county of Rantzau and director of the administratively connected dominions of Herzhorn , Sommerland and Greenland (today part of Sommerland). He and his family moved into Rantzau Castle on the castle island (Barmstedt) as the official residence . During the federal execution against the duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg in 1863 he remained in office.

When the administration was reorganized after the change of rule as a result of the German-Danish War in 1864 and the German War in 1866, the County of Rantzau was merged with the Dominion Pinneberg and the goods districts Haseldorf, Haselau, Flottbek, Seestermühe and the monastery district of Uetersen in 1867 to form the new Pinneberg district. Adolf von Moltke was appointed the first Prussian district administrator in the Pinneberg district, probably not entirely without the help of his brother. The Drostei (Pinneberg) became the new official and residence .

  • Rantzau Castle in Barmstedt, official and residence from 1849 to 1868

  • Drostei Pinneberg, official and residence from 1868 to 1870

  • Kreisau Castle

On June 1, 1870, he retired. The plan to move to his brother's Kreisau estate and make it their joint retirement home was only initially realized, as Adolf von Moltke died in the spring of 1871 while on a vacation trip to Lugano. He was buried in the New Cemetery in Barmstedt. His widow moved to Kreisau and lived there for another 30 years. The eldest son became the heir of his uncle, the childless Field Marshal General.

family

Adolf von Moltke was married to Adolfine Doris Auguste (1814–1902), b. von Krohn, a daughter of August von Krohn . In addition to two daughters who died early, the couple had sons:

and its twin sister

  • (Anna) Maria (Petrea) (* July 1, 1854 - July 10, 1924) ∞ Eugen von Kulmiz (* June 5, 1850 - March 8, 1925), (lda- and Marienhütte, Striegau district) Friedrich's mother-in-law from Winterfeld

Awards

literature

  • HH Langhorn: Historical news about the Danish Moltke's. Mohr, Kiel 1871, p. 15 f.
  • Life picture of the brother Adolf. In: Stanislaus von Leszczynski (Ed.): Collected writings and memorabilia of General Field Marshal Count Helmuth von Moltke. Volume 4: Letters. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1891, pp. 107-109.
  • Olaf Jessen: The Moltkes. Family biography. CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60499-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life picture of his brother Adolf. In: Stanislaus von Leszczynski (Ed.): Collected writings and memorabilia of General Field Marshal Count Helmuth von Moltke. Volume 4: Letters. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1891, pp. 107-109.
  2. ^ Gustav Toepke (Ed.): The register of the University of Heidelberg. Part 5: From 1807 to 1846. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1904, p. 292, no. 77 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Königlich Prussischer Staats-Anzeiger , 1870, p. 2057.
personal data
SURNAME Moltke, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moltke, Adolph von; Moltke, Bernhard Adolf Erdmann Georg von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer in Danish and Prussian services; Administrator of the County of Rantzau, District Administrator of the Pinneberg district
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1871
Place of death Lugano