Goltz stayed with his troops in Finland until December 1918 representing German interests, and in practice ruled the country as a military dictator during this period.
Since January 2007 vonderGoltz has also been artistic director of the Oslo-based Norwegian Baroque Orchestra. His interests include salt-water swimming.
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Leopold Heinrich, GrafvonderGoltz (19 March 1745 – 15 June 1816) was a Prussian Generalleutnant and diplomat who served as the Prussian ambassador to Russia from 1789 to 1794.
Rüdiger, count vonderGoltz was a German army officer who, at the end of World War I, tried unsuccessfully to build a German-controlled Baltikum in Latvia, in order to prevent domination of that country by Soviet Russia.
In seinem packenden neuen Roman erzählt Hans GrafvonderGoltz von Verantwortung und Menschlichkeit inmitten einer kühl berechnenden Wirtschaftswelt, von unerwarteten Neuanfängen und von Träumen, die nie das sind, was sie vorgeben, selbst…