Count Adolf Wilhelm von Kessler (24 November 1839 – 22 May 1895) was a German banker.

He was ennobled by Wilhelm I in 1879, becoming a member of the hereditary nobility, and was made a count in 1881 by Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Köstritz.

He was the son of Johann Ulrich Kessler, a Reformed preacher from St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Henriette Louise Auffm'Ordt, a member of a wealthy banking family in Hamburg.

[1] Kessler worked at a bank owned by his uncle, Clement Auffm'Ordt, and became manager of the Paris branch.

[2] They lived in Paris until 1870, when they relocated to the United Kingdom due to the Franco-Prussian War.