Count Ervin Batthyány (17 October 1877 – 9 June 1945) was a Hungarian political activist, school founder and journalist.

Ervin's father was a wealthy landowner from the Batthyány family, and his mother was the daughter of Education Minister Ágoston Trefort.

[1] Afraid of his political leanings, and fearing that he would divide his inherited land among wage earners, Batthyány's family had him placed in a mental sanatorium in Vienna in 1901.

Ervin Szabó attended the opening ceremony, and the socialist agitator Lajos Tarczai was made head teacher.

[1] In Bögöte, Batthyány set up a printing press and started the journal Testvériség (Brotherhood),[1] associated with the Szombathely social democrats.

In 1907, he started an anarchist paper titled Társadalmi forradalom (Social Revolution), during which his views evolved from an anarchism in the vein of Kropotkin, in the direction of anarcho-syndicalism.

He quickly handed over the position of editor of his new journal to the Budapest Anarchist Group that formed around him, and from then on he gradually withdrew from the movement.