The concept of expanding naval power, inevitably at the cost of not expanding other forces, was opposed by the three successive heads of the German armed forces, Waldersee, Schlieffen and Moltke between 1888 and 1914.

was constructed as a slightly enlarged version of the Moltke design, reaching a maximum speed of 29 knots.

With the organizational genius of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, the Prussian army fought battles it was able to win.

At the end, France had to surrender Alsace and part of Lorraine, because Moltke and his generals insisted that it was needed as a defensive barrier.

The German general staff under Moltke was alarmed and managed to have Bismarck ban a French procurement of ten thousand cavalry horses from Germany.

He was well supported by his friend Albrecht von Roon, the war minister, as well as the leader of the Prussian army Helmuth von Moltke.

The Prussian army was commanded by Field-Marshal Helmuth von Moltke and the Prussian General Staff.

In this he was backed by other senior military figures such as the Crown Prince and Moltke.

Moltke was against killing Hitler ; instead, he wanted him placed on trial.

Delp's role was to explain Catholic social teaching to the group, and to arrange contacts between Moltke and Catholic leaders, including Archbishop ( later Cardinal ) Preysing of Berlin.

He was tried, together with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Franz Sperr, and Eugen Gerstenmaier, before the People's Court ( Volksgerichtshof ) on 9 – 11 January 1945, with Roland Freisler presiding.

Here, a reserve corps was formed under Hanoverian General Moltke, and detached towards Leuze where 50 French squadrons under Du Chayla were stationed as a corps of observation.

Alexandra Moltke, a young actress with little experience, was discovered and cast in the role of Victoria Winters, an orphan who ends up in the mysterious town of Collinsport, Maine, to unravel the mysteries of her own past.

The Schlieffen Plan was created by Count Alfred von Schlieffen and modified by Helmuth von Moltke the Younger after Schlieffen's retirement ; it was Moltke who actually implemented the plan at the outset of World War I.

Schlieffen's last words were " remember to keep the right flank strong ," which was significant in that Moltke strengthened the left flank in his modification.

The Plan, however, having been devised in 1905, was now too much a part of German military thinking to be abandoned completely, so all Moltke could do was modify it.

" Although Moltke did improve the Plan somewhat in this respect, it was not methodical advanced planning which enabled the German advance to succeed, but " furious improvisation " That the Army achieved as much as it did, at a time when the standing orders could only be said to have caused no actual harm, is remarkable indeed.

He only wished to temporarily cripple France by the billion franc reparation, but suddenly he was confronted by the demands of Marshals Albrecht von Roon and Helmut von Moltke ( backed by Emperor Wilhelm I ) to annex the two French provinces as further payment.

Standing at the gates was a powerful force of 200, 000 Prussian soldiers under the command of General Helmuth von Moltke.

Peter Hoffmann's biography of Hitler assassination conspirator Claus Graf von Stauffenberg (" Stauffenberg, A Family History ," 1992 ) indicates that after the failure of Stauffenberg's bomb plot in July 1944, Gisevius went into hiding until January 23, 1945, when he escaped to Switzerland by using a passport that had belonged to Carl Deichmann, a brother-in-law of German Count Helmuth James von Moltke, who was a specialist in international law serving in the legal branch of the Foreign Countries Group of the OKW ( Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, " Supreme Command of the Armed Forces ").

However, German Emperor Wilhelm I eventually sided with Helmuth von Moltke the Elder and other Prussian generals and others who argued that a westward shift in the new Franco-German border was necessary and desirable for a number of reasons.

* Jørgen Brønlund ( 1877 – 1907 ), was also a polar explorer born in Ilulissat, He grew up with Rasmussen and accompanied him, along with Harald Moltke and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, on the Danish Literary Expedition ( 1902 – 1904 ) to examine Inuit culture.

The two cylinders made by Moltke are the only known voice recordings of anyone born in 1800, that is, in the 18th century.

Helmuth von Moltke was born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin and named after his uncle, Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, future Field Marshal and hero of the Wars of Unification.

Helmuth James Graf von Moltke was born in Kreisau ( now Krzyżowa, Świdnica County, Poland ) in the Province of Silesia.

MC Shan ( born as Shawn Moltke September 9, 1965 ) is an American rapper from Queens, NYC.

Count Adam Gottlob Moltke ( 10 November 1710 – 25 September 1792 ) was a Danish courtier, statesman and diplomat, born at Riesenhof in Mecklenburg.

Freya and Helmuth James von Moltke, October 1931Von Moltke was born Freya Deichmann in Cologne, Germany, the daughter of banker Carl Theodor Deichmann and his wife, Ada ( née Ada von Schnitzler ).

Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke ( 26 October 1800, Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin – 24 April 1891 ) was a German Field Marshal.

Attempts were made to persuade Moltke to return, but, unhappy with her diminished role and content to be a stay-at-home mother to her new son, she declined.

His son, Moltke, continued his father's work in folklore and fairy tales and became the first professor of the subject at Christiania University.

Adam Wilhelm Moltke was the grandson of Adam Gottlob Moltke, the influential Lord Steward and companion of Frederik V of Denmark, and the son of Prime Minister Joachim Godske Moltke.

Through one of his uncles, young Moltke became a page at the Danish court, in which capacity he formed a lifelong friendship with the crown prince Frederick, later King Frederick V. His son, Joachim Godske Moltke, and his grandson, Adam Wilhelm Moltke, later served as Prime Minister of Denmark.

In 1941 von Moltke gave birth to their second son, Konrad, at Kreisau.

He went on his first expedition in 1902 – 1904, known as The Danish Literary Expedition, with Jørgen Brønlund, Harald Moltke and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, to examine Inuit culture.

* September 25 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman ( b. 1710 )

* November 10 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman ( d. 1792 )

* Moltke ( German / Danish nobility )

With Count Harald Moltke and Knud Rasmussen he formed the Danish Literary expedition ( 1902-04 ) to West Greenland, and in the early stages ( 1902 ) discovered near Evigheds Fiord two ice-free mountain ranges.

The equestrian statue was commissioned by Moltke, as Director for the Danish Asiatic Company, and it was made by French sculptor Jacques-Francois-Joseph Saly.

* Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish courtier, statesman and diplomat

* Adam Wilhelm Moltke, Danish Prime Minister

* Erik Moltke, Danish art historian

For some Danish inscriptions from Jacobsen & Moltke a more precise sub-period is given.

Among these are one for Ludvig Holberg in Sorø made in 1779, and another for the first wife of Adam Gottlob Moltke, statesman and high official at the Danish Court.

The equestrian statue was commissioned by Adam Gottlob Moltke, head of the Danish Asiatic Company, as a gift to the king.

Arbien helped Mandelburg secure financial support by contacting Pilo in Copenhagen, who then interested the Danish Legation secretary to the French Court in Paris Justitsråd Joachim Wasserschlebe, foreign minister Count Johan Hartvig Ernst Bernstorff and Adam Gottlob Moltke, and finally through them King Frederick V of Denmark.