Freya von Moltke, the Foundation’s namesake, is the widow of Helmuth James von Moltke, one of the founders and the head of the Kreisau Circle – one of the most significant civil resistance movements against the Nazi regime. Together with her husband, Freya von Moltke was an active participant in the Kreisau Circle.

Since World War II, Freya von Moltke has worked for the realization of the ideas of the Kreisau Circle and the remembrance of those (including her husband) killed while resisting the Nazi regime. From the start, she has supported the revitalization of the New Kreisau especially during the major political changes in 1989. Today Freya von Moltke is, with Dr. Clarita von Trott zu Solz, the last surviving witness of the Kreisau resistance. Through lectures, interviews, by publishing her husband’s “Letters to Freya,” and by writing “Memories of Kreisau,” she has helped to keep the memory of the civil resistance alive.

She actively participates in the work of the New Kreisau as a friend, regular guest and advisor. Now in her nineties, Freya von Moltke lives in Vermont, USA.

 

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