Louis von Moltke
Louis von Moltke , actually Ludwig Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Moltke (* December 24, 1805 in Lübeck , † August 2, 1889 in Ratzeburg ) was a Danish-German administrative lawyer and councilor in the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg .
Life
Louis von Moltke came from the old, originally Mecklenburg noble family von Moltke . He was the son of the future Danish Lieutenant General Friedrich Philipp Victor von Moltke (1768-1845) and his wife Henriette Sophie, née Paschen (1776-1837). From 1801 to 1803 the family lived on Gut Gnewitz and then moved to Lübeck, where Louis 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, as was Adolf (1804-1871), the father of Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke (1848-1916). The resistance fighter Helmuth James Graf von Moltke was his great-great-nephew.
At the age of 14 he came to the Ballhorn family in Berlin, was confirmed by Friedrich Schleiermacher , and attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium (Berlin) until his Abitur in 1826. He studied law at the Universities of Kiel and, from 1827, Heidelberg. Louis von Moltke was musically gifted and, like Robert Schumann , regularly took part in musical soirees in the house of Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut in Heidelberg . In 1831 he passed his exams before the Gottorf Higher Court , entered the Danish judicial service in the duchies and worked first at the higher court in Gottorf, then in the government of the duchies in Schleswig and briefly in the pension chamber in Copenhagen .
In 1841 he was appointed bailiff and bailiff for Fehmarn based in Burg on Fehmarn . After the Schleswig-Holstein uprising he was recalled in 1850 and only received a new appointment as Second Councilor in the government of the Duchy of Lauenburg in Ratzeburg, which has been in personal union with Denmark since 1815 . He kept this position during the federal execution against the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg in 1863 , the German-Danish War and the handover to Prussia as a result of the Gastein Convention . In 1865 he was part of the delegation that welcomed King Wilhelm I as the new sovereign at the border in Büchen and accompanied him to Ratzeburg to pay homage to the Lauenburg estates.
Shortly after the departure of his superior Ludwig Ferdinand Graf von Kielmannsegg , he asked for his retirement in 1868 for health reasons .
Since 1838 he was with Juliane Marie ( Mie ), geb. von Krogh (1807–1866), a daughter of the royal forest master for the kingdom and the duchies Fritz Ferdinand von Krogh (1780–1844).
Awards
- Title Chamberlain 1860
- Dannebrogorden , knight
- Royal Crown Order (Prussia) 3rd class
- House order of the Wendish Crown , Commander in Chief
literature
- Life picture of his brother Ludwig , in: Stanislaus von Leszczynski (ed.): Collected writings and memorabilia of General Field Marshal Count Helmuth von Moltke. Volume 4: Briefe, Berlin: Mittler & Sohn 1891, pp. 229-231
- Olaf Jessen: The Moltkes. Family biography. CH Beck, Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-406-60499-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 75 , 50 for the year 1826
- ↑ Gustav Toepke (Ed.): The register of the University of Heidelberg (5th part): From 1807 - 1846. Heidelberg 1904, p. 327 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Awards according to Danmarks adels aarbog. 15 (1898), p. 309
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moltke, Louis von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moltke, Ludwig Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish-German administrative lawyer, councilor in the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 2, 1889 |
| Place of death | Ratzeburg |