Hermann Christof, Count Russwurm (c. 1565–1605) was an imperial commander in the Long Turkish War.

[1] He began his military career in the Cologne War (1583–88), by the end of which he had become commander of Christophe de Bassompierre's personal guard.

In 1590 he entered on his inheritance, and became an officer in the regiment of Hans Reichard von Schönberg, serving in Jülich.

Distinguishing himself in command, he received an imperial commission as lieutenant colonel and instructions to raise a regiment for Charles, Margrave of Burgau, to serve against the Turks.

[1] In Autumn 1600, at a banquet in Prague, he unsuccessfully sought to provoke the Moravian nobleman Charles of Žerotín the Elder into a duel.