Moltke
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Moltke may refer to:

People:
  • Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
    Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
    Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke was a German Field Marshal. The chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years, he is regarded as one of the great strategists of the latter 19th century, and the creator of a new, more modern method of directing armies in the field...

     (1800–1891), Chief of the Prussian, and then German, General Staff
  • Helmuth von Moltke the Younger
    Helmuth von Moltke the Younger
    Helmuth Johann Ludwig von Moltke , also known as Moltke the Younger, was a nephew of Field Marshal Count Moltke and served as the Chief of the German General Staff from 1906 to 1914. The two are often differentiated as Moltke the Elder and Moltke the Younger...

     (1848–1916), Chief of the German General Staff
  • Kuno von Moltke (1847-1923), German general
  • Helmuth James Graf von Moltke
    Helmuth James Graf von Moltke
    Helmuth James Graf von Moltke was a German jurist who, as a draftee in the German Abwehr, acted to subvert German human-rights abuses of people in territories occupied by Germany during World War II and subsequently became a founding member of the Kreisau Circle resistance group, whose members...

     (1907–1945), German jurist involved in the July 20 assassination attempt against Hitler in 1944
  • Adam Gottlob Moltke
    Adam Gottlob Moltke
    Count Adam Gottlob Moltke , Danish courtier, statesman and diplomat, born at Riesenhof in Mecklenburg.-Early life:...

    , Danish courtier, statesman and diplomat
  • Adam Wilhelm Moltke
    Adam Wilhelm Moltke
    Count Adam Wilhelm Moltke was Prime Minister of Denmark from 1848 to 1852. He was the first Danish Prime Minister in the Danish constitutional monarchy outlined in 1848 and signed as the Danish Constitution on 5 June 1849 by Frederik VII of Denmark.Adam Wilhelm Moltke was the grandson of Adam...

    , Danish Prime Minister
  • Erik Moltke
    Erik Moltke
    Erik Moltke was a runologist, writer, editor. Through his leadership the Runologist Section of the National Museum of Denmark became a world centre for the scientific study of runology c.1942 CE....

    , Danish art historian


Places:
  • Moltke Township, Michigan
    Moltke Township, Michigan
    Moltke Township is a civil township of Presque Isle County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 352 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...

    , USA
  • Moltke Township, Minnesota
    Moltke Township, Minnesota
    Moltke Township is a township in Sibley County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 337 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 39.0 square miles , all of it land.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were...

    , USA
  • Moltke Harbor, South Georgia Island


Other:
  • SMS Moltke
    SMS Moltke
    SMS Moltke"SMS" stands for "Seiner Majestät Schiff", or "His Majesty's Ship" in German. was the lead ship of the Moltke-class battlecruisers of the German Imperial Navy, named after the 19th century German field marshal Helmuth von Moltke...

    , two German ships named after Moltke the Elder
  • Moltke class battlecruiser
    Moltke class battlecruiser
    The Moltke class was a class of two "all-big-gun" battlecruisersThe German navy classified the ships as Großen Kreuzer . These ships differed from older Großen Kreuzer, such as the Roon class, in that they carried a uniform main battery, instead of four large guns and a mixed array of smaller weapons...

    , a class of battlecruiser in the German Navy
  • Moltke (crater)
    Moltke (crater)
    Moltke is a lunar impact crater located near the southern edge of the Mare Tranquillitatis. This is a small, bowl-shaped crater surrounded by a bright halo of higher-albedo material. Just to the south lies the rille system named Rimae Hypatia...

    , a crater on the Moon
  • Helmuth-James-von-Moltke-Preis
    Helmuth-James-von-Moltke-Preis
    The Helmuth-James-von-Moltke-Preis was established in 2001 by the German Section of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War...

    , a German award

See also

  • Moltke's Palace, alternate name for Amalienborg Palace, the winter home of the Danish royal family
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