Gebhardt von Moltke

Gebhardt von Moltke ( born June 28, 1938 on Good Werner village, district Breslau, Silesia ) is a former German diplomat and President of the German - British Society.

Life and career

Gebhardt von Moltke comes from the Mecklenburg noble Moltke. His father was the landowner and Ambassador Hans -Adolf von Moltke, (1884-1943), on whose estate Werner village he was born. His mother was Countess Davida Yorck von Wartenberg (1900-1989), daughter of Heinrich Graf Yorck von Wartenberg.

In 1958 Moltke began with the study of law and economics at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. He graduated in 1963 with a study in Grenoble, Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau and laid in the same year his First State Exam. Between 1963 and 1967, Moltke made ​​his clerkship, and finally the Second State Examination. In 1968 he arrived in the higher Foreign Service, where Gebhardt von Moltke in the Office of the Minister of the Foreign Office in Bonn was initially employed. From 1971 to 1977 Moltke worked in departments of German embassies in Moscow and Yaoundé. Then he returned to the Foreign Office, where he was active in the HR department. Between 1982 and 1986 worked in the Political Section of the Embassy in Washington, after which he took over the leadership of the U.S. Referates the Foreign Office. Then Gebhardt von Moltke was in 1991 Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs at NATO in Brussels. In 1997 Moltke was appointed ambassador in London. He held until 1999 this office. This was followed by an appointment as Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany in the North Atlantic Council of NATO. In 2003 Moltke retired. In the same year he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the German - British Society.

Gebhardt von Moltke has an honorary doctorate and lives in Berlin.

Awards

• 2003: Grand Gold Medal with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria