Freya von Moltke
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Freya von Moltke in 2009.
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| Born |
Freya Deichmann 29 March 1911 Cologne, Germany |
| Died | 1 January 2010 (aged 98) Norwich, Vermont |
| Nationality | Federal Republic of Germany, United States of America |
| Education | Doctor of Law, Humboldt University of Berlin |
| Occupation | scholar, author, speaker |
| Known for | Chronicling her husband's role in the Kreisau Circle's non-violent resistance to Nazism during World War II. |
| Spouse(s) | Helmuth James Ludwig Eugen Heinrich Graf von Moltke |
| Children | Helmuth Caspar, Konrad |
| Parent(s) | Ada & Carl Theodor Deichmann |
| Relatives | Hans Deichmann, Carl Deichmann |
Countess Freya von Moltke (29 March 1911 – 1 January 2010) was a participant in the anti-Nazi resistance group, the Kreisau Circle, with her husband, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke. During World War II, her husband acted to subvert German human-rights abuses of people in territories occupied by Germany and became a founding member of the Kreisau Circle, whose members opposed the government of Adolf Hitler.
The Nazi government executed her husband for treason, he having discussed with the Kreisau Circle group the prospects for a Germany based on moral and democratic principles that could develop after Hitler. Von Moltke preserved her husband's letters that detailed his activities during the war and she chronicled events of that period from her perspective. She supported the founding of a center for international understanding at the former von Moltke estate in Krzyżowa, Świdnica County, Poland (formerly Kreisau, Germany).
Von Moltke was born Freya Deichmann in Cologne, Germany, the daughter of banker Carl Theodor Deichmann and his wife, Ada (née Ada von Schnitzler). In 1930, she began studying law at the University of Bonn and attended seminars at the University of Breslau, where she worked as a researcher for her future husband. On 18 October 1931, she married Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, in Cologne, Germany. The couple resided initially in a modest house at the von Moltke Kreisau estate, in Silesia (German: Schlesien), then in Germany but now part of Poland. They moved to Berlin so that he could complete his legal training. She studied law in Berlin and received a Juris Doctor degree from Humboldt University of Berlin in 1935.
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