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

Famous quotes containing the word von:

    “If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.”
    —Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)