Kurd von Schlözer (original name Conrad Nestor von Schlözer; 5 January 1822, in Lübeck, Free City of Lübeck – 13 May 1894, in Berlin, Germany) was an imperial German historian, diplomat and German Ambassador to the United States from 1871 to 1882.

Through the mediation of Ernst Curtius and the Princess Augusta, he was accepted without the customary legal training, into the Prussian diplomatic service.

He was secretary of the Prussian ambassador at the Holy See, Friedrich Adolf von Willisen [de], and developed an extensive network of artists and church representatives.

In preparation for the resumption broken diplomatic relations between the Empire and the Holy See, he traveled to Rome in 1878 and 1881, and in 1882 was appointed as the Prussian envoy to Pope Leo XIII.

In the preparation and implementation of the laws 1886/87, ending Kulturkampf,[1] Schlözer experienced the peak of his diplomatic career.