Carl Moltke
| Count Carl Moltke | |
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Moltke c. 1910
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| Foreign Minister of Denmark | |
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In office 23 April 1924 – 14 December 14, 1926 |
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| Preceded by | Christian Cold |
| Succeeded by | Laust Jevsen Moltesen |
| Danish Ambassador to Germany | |
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In office 1912–1924 |
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| Danish Ambassador to the United States | |
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In office 1908–1912 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Carl Poul Oscar Moltke 2 January 1869 Brandenburg, Germany |
| Died | 5 September 1935 (aged 66) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Political party | Social Democrats |
| Spouse(s) | Cornelia Van Rensselaer Thayer (m. 1907; his death 1935) |
| Children | Carl Adam Nathaniel Thayer Moltke |
| Parents | Adam Henrik Carl Moltke Emma Christine Capizucchi di Cassini |
| Relatives | Alexandra Moltke Isles (granddaughter) |
Count Carl Poul Oscar Moltke (2 January 1869 – 5 September 1935) was the Danish minister to the United States in 1908 and the Foreign Minister of Denmark 1924–1926.
Carl Poul Oscar Moltke was born on 2 January 1869 in Denmark. He was the son of Adam Henrik Carl Moltke (1828–1913) and Emma Christine, Countess Capizucchi di Cassini (1836–1870). His maternal grandparents were Poul Capizucchi di Cassini and Elisabeth Loy af Triest.
His paternal grandfather, Carl Graf von Moltke (1798–1866), was a cousin of Adam Wilhelm Moltke (1785–1864), the first Danish Prime Minister in the Danish constitutional monarchy, and the great-grandson of Adam Gottlob Moltke (1710–1792), a Danish courtier, statesman and diplomat, and favourite of Frederick V of Denmark. His family was very involved in both Danish and German history.
From 1908 to 1912, Moltke was the Danish Ambassador to the United States. He later represented his country as the Ambassador to Germany in Berlin. In 1920, the secretary of the Danish legation in Berlin during World War I, Count Bent Holstein, brought serious charges against Moltke, saying:
"The radical Government tried every way to strangle the Slesvig question. The Danish Ambassador in Berlin thus went to the German Foreign Department during the war proposing that Germany give very many iron crosses to men from North Slesvig in order to make them forget Denmark. Not a German, but the Danish Ambassador under the Zahles Government tried Danish souls with German iron crosses.
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