Hans-Adolf von Moltke

Hans-Adolf Helmuth Ludwig Erdmann Waldemar von Moltke (November 29, 1884 - March 22, 1943) was landowner in Silesia and was German Ambassador in Poland in the Weimar Republic and the period of National Socialism.

Life
Moltke studied law and joined the Foreign Service in 1913. During the years of 1920-1922, Moltke was representative of the AA with the agent for the voting district of Upper Silesia in the Opole and then from 1922 to 1924 a member of the Joint Commission for Upper Silesia. From 1924-1928, he served as Counselor at the Embassy of Constantinople. From 1931 to 1934 he was ambassador in Warsaw. After the war, Moltke began what was the AA in Berlin, including head of the Archives Commission for the evaluation of captured files. On January 11, 1943, Moltke was killed in Madrid.

He was also a landowner on the estates Wernersdorf (district Breslau) and small-Bresa (county chasing).

Since 1904 he was 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:
 * '' "Alleged War Guilt: The former German Ambassador to Poland, Hans-Adolf von Moltke, demonstrated foreign press representatives archive material from Warsaw as" proof "for the debt of Poland at the outbreak of war (Fall 1939). The photo shows the former German Ambassador to Poland, Hans-Adolf von Moltke, at the screening of archive material from Warsaw before foreign press representatives, to "prove" the war guilt of Poland."'

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 Oberpräsidents Friedrich von Moltke (1852-1927).

Moltke married Yorck von Wartenberg (September 24, 1900 - September 26, 1989) on June 8, 1926.

The couple had eight children :
 * Monika von Moltke (1927-1948)
 * Maria von Moltke (born 1929)
 * Friedrich von Moltke (born 1931), Bank Manager
 * Heinrich von Moltke (born 1933), Director General for Enterprise Policy at the European Commission
 * Wulf von Moltke (born 1935), Senior Executive Vice President
 * Gebhardt von Moltke (born 1938), among others, German Ambassador in London
 * Angelika Baroness von Hahn (born 1940), professor of Neurology at the University of London (Ontario)
 * Renate von Dobschütz (born 1942), art historian, married to Leonard of Dobschütz.