Captain Carl von Brandis (1827 – 20 June 1903) was a cavalry officer in Austrian and British service, and later a mining commissioner and landdrost (magistrate) in the South African Republic (Transvaal).

[1]: 98  Following a family tradition, von Brandis started his military career in 1842, training for two years at the Hanoverian Cadet Institute.

[1]: 98 After completing his military training, he joined the Austrian Army and took part in the First Italian War of Independence.

[1]: 98 After being disbanded, von Brandis and his wife settled in the Orange Free State, where he became its Chief Constable and a private secretary to President Marthinus Wessel Pretorius.

[1]: 82 [1]: 98  In November 1886, von Brandis was appointed as Chief Landdrost by President Paul Kruger when the Witwatersrand goldfields were proclaimed.