Otto Joachim von Moltke
Otto Joachim Graf von Moltke (born June 11, 1770 in Copenhagen , † February 1, 1853 in Espe, Sjælland ) was a Danish nobleman and statesman.
Life
Otto Joachim von Moltke was one of the sons of Count Adam Gottlob von Moltke zu Bregentved and his wife Sophie, nee. von Raben (Sophie Hedevig Raben, 1732–1802), a daughter of the Privy Councilor Christian Frederik Raben. Count Friedrich Ludwig von Moltke (1745–1824), the last cathedral dean of the Lübeck bishopric, was his much older half-brother from his father's first marriage. As a child he was in 1776 canon of the predominantly Protestant Lübeck cathedral chapter when his brother Gebhard Graf von Moltke (* 1764) on his first 1775 acquired prebend renounced in his favor. After completing his law studies in 1788, he went to France, where he saw the outbreak of the French Revolution . He entered the Danish-Norwegian administrative service and in 1798 became bailiff in the Norwegian office of Bratsberg (now Telemark province ). In 1800 he was appointed bailiff in Kristiansand and bailiff in the office of Nedenes (today Aust-Agder ).
In 1804 he returned to Denmark and was director of the Danish Rent Chamber until 1813. He then became president of the Schlewig-Holstein-Lauenburg chancellery in Copenhagen. From this key position he was promoted to the Danish secret minister of state in 1824 and remained head of government of Denmark ( Prime Minister ) until 1842 .
Awards
- Royal Danish Chamberlain (1800)
- Commander of the Dannebrog Order (1810)
- Knight of the Elephant Order (1826)
literature
- JL Quisling: Gjerpen. En bygdebok . Kristiania, 1917
- Otto Joachim von Moltke . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 11 : Maar – Müllner . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1897, p. 430 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Wolfgang Prange : Directory of the canons. In: Ders .: Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, principality and part of the country 1160-1937. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 418, no. 404
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moltke, Otto Joachim von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish nobleman and statesman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1770 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1853 |
| Place of death | Aspen, Sjælland |