Paul Friedrich von Moltke

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Baron Paul Friedrich Wilhelm von Moltke ( Russian Павел Фёдорович Мольтке ; transcribed Pawel Fjodorowitsch Moltke ; born August 23, 1786 in Ludwigslust ; † February 23, 1846 in Karlsruhe ) was a Russian diplomat .

Life

origin

Paul Friedrich was a member of the Mecklenburg noble family Moltke . His parents were Major General Adolf Friedrich von Moltke (* 1759) and Friederika von Lützow († 1834). With Field Marshal Helmut von Moltke he had a common grandfather in the imperial captain and heir on Samow , Friedrich Kasimir Siegfried von Moltke (1730–1785).

Career

Moltke entered Russian service in 1799 and was employed from 1809 to 1811 in diplomatic missions in Königsberg and Berlin , as well as in Sweden in 1811 . He served from 1814 to 1816 under Konstantin Pavlovich Romanov in the Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1816 was Moltke secretary of the diplomatic mission in Turin and was finally in 1829, already in the rank of Privy Council of State , chargé ( charge d'affaires ) in Baden ; on May 12th he had his inaugural audience with Grand Duke Ludwig . Moltke remained in this position as the Russian envoy in Karlsruhe until his death.

In 1835 the Russian Emperor Nikolaus awarded the Margrave Maximilian von Baden the Order of St. Anne first class and had him handed over to the Grand Ducal Court of Baden by the Imperial Russian Chargé d'affaires .

family

Moltke married Natalie von Berckholtz (1808–1836) in Baden-Baden in 1830 and then in 1837 with her younger sister Sophie von Berckholtz (1810–1878), both daughters of Gabriel Leonhard von Berckholtz and Barbara Schröder (1834–1878). 1859). With his first wife he had a daughter Olga von Moltke (1832–1906), who in turn moved to Ortenberg Castle in 1851 with Count Anton von Chotek (1822–1893), heir to Großpriesen, Zahorzan and reign of Neuhof in Bohemia , and envoy of the monarchy Austria-Hungary married in Saint Petersburg .

The Württemberg Major General Friedrich Freiherr von Wimpffen (1784-1845) was his brother-in-law since 1817, married to Moltke's sister Freiin Elisabeth Marie Luise ("Elise"; 1795-1832). Since 1820 she was the lady-in-waiting of Queen Pauline Therese Luise von Württemberg in Stuttgart . Wimpffen was adjutant to King Wilhelm I of Württemberg and the youngest son of General Franz Ludwig von Wimpffen from Württemberg and a brother of Major General Count Franz von Wimpffen . Through his younger sister Sophia Feodorowna von Moltke (1797-1882), lady-in-waiting to Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna , he was related by marriage to Dimitri Petrovich Severin (1792-1865), the Russian envoy and authorized minister in Munich.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family history of Christoph Graf von Polier, von Lützow (accessed on March 12, 2015)
  2. a b Detlev Schwennicke (Ed.): European Family Tables, New Series , Volume XXIII Around the Baltic Sea 2, Frankfurt am Main 2006, Tfl. 139
  3. ^ Georg Hassel (ed.), Genealogical-Historical-Statistical Almanach (1831), p. 68 ; Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogthums Baden 1834, p. 100 ; 1836, p. 88
  4. State and learned newspaper of the Hamburg impartial correspondent (1829), digitized
  5. Tobias C. Bringmann, Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Auswärtige Missionschefs in Deutschland (2001), p. 344
  6. ^ Regensburger Zeitung of October 20, 1835 ( digitized version )
  7. GHdA AB Vol. VI (1964), p. 39
  8. ^ Roman von Procházka : Genealogical Handbook of extinct Bohemian gentry families , Neustadt (Aisch) 1973, p. 55
  9. Edmund von der Becke-Klüchtzner, The Adel of the Kingdom of Württemberg, Stuttgart 1879, p. 313
  10. ^ The Ancestors of Roman, Baron von Ungern-Sternberg (1885-1921) by William Addams Reitwiesner
  11. According to the decree of appointment of the King of Württemberg of April 14, 1820, i.e. one day before the king's wedding with Princess Pauline of Württemberg: Österreichischer Beobachter, Edition 2 , p. 548 . See also Therese Huber, Briefe, October 1818 - 1820 , Volume 7, Berlin 2013, p. 1616
  12. Family sermons that are archived in the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart, sorted by years 1829 to 1860
  13. ^ Wimpffen, Franz Ludwig von. Hessian biography. (As of April 2, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  14. Grossherzoglich-Baden State and Government Gazette , Volume 35 (1837), p. 14
predecessor Office successor
Konstantin von Benckendorff Russian envoy in Karlsruhe
1829–1846
Ivan Petrovich Oserov