Background
Adam Wilhelm Moltke was the grandson of Adam Gottlob Moltke, the influential Lord Steward and companion of Frederik V of Denmark and the son of Prime Minister Joachim Godske Moltke.
Diplomat politician Prime Minister of Denmark
Adam Wilhelm Moltke was the grandson of Adam Gottlob Moltke, the influential Lord Steward and companion of Frederik V of Denmark and the son of Prime Minister Joachim Godske Moltke.
He was the first Danish Prime Minister in the Danish constitutional monarchy outlined in 1848 and signed as the Danish Constitution on 5 June 1849 by Frederik VII of Denmark. He was born at Einsiedelsborg on the island of Funen on the 25th of August 1785. He was known as a humane and patriarchal squire but was no outstanding political figure.
From 1845, he was Minister of Financial Affairs.
At the fall of the last absolute government, he too was dismissed but, a few days later, he was persuaded to form the new national government as the most suitable leader both as for his social position and as for his moderate views. The cabinet created on 22 March 1848 was called the March Cabinet.
On 16 November 1848 it was replaced by the November Cabinet, which in turn was replaced by the July Cabinet on 13 July 1851, which again was replaced by the October Cabinet on 18 October 1851. The cabinet, originally a Conservative-Liberal one, gradually became more and more openly conservative both because of the general liberal withdrawal and because of foreign pressure.
On 27 January 1852, Christian Albrecht Bluhme replaced Moltke as Prime Minister.
