Ewald Von Kleist

Ewald von Kleist is the name of:

  • Ewald Jürgen Georg von Kleist (ca. 1700–1748), co-inventor of the Leyden jar
  • Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715–1759), German poet and soldier
  • Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881–1954), German Field Marshal
  • Count Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (1890–1945), conspirator in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler
  • Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (born 1922), son of Count Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin; another conspirator in the July 20 bomb plot

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    —Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)