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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“The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic law of chromatics. Don’t look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)