Elsbeth von Keudell (1857–1953) was a German nurse and senior coordinator of the Countess Rittberg Sisters' Association of the Red Cross.

[1] Keudell was born 21 May 1857 in Tilsit, Kahlingrad, Russia as the youngest daughter of an officer and landowner and she was trained as a nurse at Berlin's Charité Hospital.

She was one of the first nurses in the country to receive additional training to become a superior at the Red Cross school founded by Clementine von Wallmenich.

Keudell gained public notoriety when the German Red Cross (DRK) was asked, for the first time, to respond to a natural disaster outside the country.

Soon, the DRK, under Keudell's supervision, sent 37 railway carriages and the steamer Illyria, laden with barracks, tents and other supplies to aide efforts there.