 He graduated in 1963 after studying in Grenoble, Berlin, as well as Freiburg in Breisgau and took his first state examination in the same year.Between 1963 and 1967 Moltke took an internship and finally took his second state examination.In 1968, he came into the higher echelons of the Foreign Service, where Gebhardt vom Moltke proceeded to work in the First Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bonn.