Name Hans-Adolf Moltke Children Gebhardt von Moltke | Parents Friedrich Moltke | |
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Hans-Adolf Helmuth Ludwig Erdmann Waldemar von Moltke (November 29, 1884 - March 22, 1943) was land owner in Silesia and German Ambassador in Poland during the Weimar Republic and under Hitler up to the fall of Poland.
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Life
Moltke studied law and joined the Foreign Service in 1913. During the years of 1920 to 1922, Moltke represented the German Foreign Office at the Allied Commission of the Upper Silesia plebiscite in Opole and from 1922 to 1924 at the Joint Commission for Upper Silesia. From 1924 to 1928, he served as Counselor at the Embassy of Constantinople. From 1931 to the German occupation of Poland in 1939 he was ambassador in Warsaw. He then returned to the Foreign Officein Berlin where he headed of the Archive Commission for the evaluation of captured files. On January 11, 1943, he was nominated ambassador in Madrid where he died two months later.
He was also a land owner of the estates of Wernersdorf and of Klein-Bresa In Silesia.
Since 1904 he had been a member of Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg.
On 1 October 1937 he joined the NSDAP.
Polish War Guilt
For his work in German foreign policy after the outbreak of war, the German Historical Institute has republished a press photo from 1939:
Genealogy
He comes from the old Mecklenburg nobility Moltke . He was the grandson of the Prussian district administrator Adolph von Moltke (1804-1871), a brother of Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke, and the son of Royal Prussian Minister of State and Oberprasidents Friedrich von Moltke (1852-1927).
Moltke married Davida Yorck von Wartenberg (September 24, 1900 - September 26, 1989) on June 8, 1926.
The couple had eight children :