Freya von Moltke
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Freya von Moltke (born 23 September 1911) was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance group, the Kreisau Circle, co-founded by her husband.
She was born Freya Deichmann in Köln, and studied law at the universities of Cologne and Bonn.
On 18 October 1931, at Grundlsee, she married Helmuth James Ludwig Eugen Heinrich Graf von Moltke, initially residing at Kreisau, in Schlesien (now part of the Polish Silesia), then moving to Berlin so that he could complete his legal training. He was executed for his role in opposing Adolf Hitler.
In 1960 she moved to Vermont, where she lived together with the philosopher Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, who died in 1973. As of 2007, Freya von Moltke resided in Norwich, Vermont.
Frau von Moltke has been active since the war in publicizing her husband's ideas and actions during the war, to serve as an example of principled resistance. On the centenary of his birth, March 11, 2007, she was able to sit in the front row of the French Hugenot church in Berlin and witness a commemoration of his legacy, where German chancellor Angela Merkel described him as a symbol of "European courage".[1]
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- ^ Marquand, Robert. "Moral legacy of Nazi resister takes root in Germany - and abroad", The Christian Science Monitor, 2007-03-12. Retrieved on 2007-03-13.
- Freya von Moltke, Memories of Kreisau and the German Resistance, translated by Julie M. Winter, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
- Helmuth Von Moltke, Letters To Freya, 1939-1945
