Friedrich von Moltke (politician)

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Friedrich von Moltke

Friedrich Ludwig Elisa von Moltke (born May 1, 1852 at Rantzau Castle , Barmstedt ; † December 10, 1927 at Gut Klein Bresa, Strehlen district , Lower Silesia province ) was a Prussian minister of state and interior.

family

Friedrich von Moltke came from the old Mecklenburg nobility and was the son of the royal Prussian district administrator Adolf von Moltke and Adolfine Doris Auguste von Krohn (* 1813). On March 27, 1883 he married Julie Zuckschwerdt (born September 26, 1862 in Magdeburg, † January 14, 1943 in Breslau), the daughter of the banker Hermann Zuckschwerdt and Ernestine Koch. From this marriage comes the future German ambassador Hans-Adolf von Moltke (1884–1943). His brother was the royal Prussian general colonel and chief of the general staff Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke (1848-1916).

Life

Moltke was a landlord on Klein-Bresa. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until he graduated from high school in 1873 . He studied law at the Kaiser Wilhelms University and in 1874 became a member of the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg . In 1877 he went to the higher court as a trainee lawyer . Since 1882 government assessor in the Upper Silesian Opole , in 1885 he became district administrator of the Tost-Gleiwitz district . In 1890 he came as a Councilor in the Prussian Ministry of Culture, where he 1893 Privy Councilor and lecturer Council and Counsel was. Since 1897 Privy Senior Government, Moltke was in 1898 the provincial government in the administrative district of Opole and 1900 in the administrative district of Potsdam . In 1903 he became President of the Province of East Prussia . From June 1907 to June 1910 Moltke was the Prussian Minister of the Interior. From August 1914 to 1918, for the whole of the First World War , he was President of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein . From 1913 until the end of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1918, he was a member of the Prussian manor house . Friedrich von Moltke was a member of the Senate of the Prussian Academy of Arts and a legal knight of the Order of St. John .

In 1912, during the Second German Antarctic Expedition, Wilhelm Filchner named a group of ice-free rock cliffs in Antarctica Moltke-Nunataks in honor of Friedrich and his brother Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke .

See also

Grave of Friedrich von Moltke and his wife in the cemetery in Markt Bohrau

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-305545 , No. 702
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 102/17