Ernst von Bodelschwingh-Velmede

Ernst Albert Karl Wilhelm Ludwig von Bodelschwingh auf Velmede (26 November 1794 – 18 May 1854) was a Prussian politician.

He participated in the Freiheitskriege ("liberty wars"), and at Leipzig earned the Iron Cross first class; he was heavily wounded at Freiburg on 21 October 1813.

From 1822 he was an administrator (Landrat) of Kreis Tecklenburg in Westphalia, from 1831 president of the Regierungsbezirk of Trier, and from November 1834 Oberpräsident of the Rhine Province, in which he served during a turbulent time.

He did not sympathize with the Revolutions of 1848, and on 19 March resigned to enter the Prussian Abgeordnetenhaus (lower house), first in January 1849 and again after a new electoral law was imposed in 1849.

His brother, Karl von Bodelschwingh-Velmede, was also active in Prussian politics and Finance Minister of Prussia.