Ludvig Henrik Carl Herman Holstein, Greve til Holsteinborg (18 July 1815 – 28 April 1892), was a Danish politician, landowner and noble.

He was a son of Friedrich Adolph Holstein, Count of Holsteinborg, and Wilhelmine Juliane Reventlow.

[3] As Prime Minister, Holstein rarely put forward his own opinions; his role was so passive that editor Vilhelm Topsøe satirized him as "the topping on the Kransekake".

On 21 March 1850, Holstein married Bodild Joachimine "Mimi" Zahrtmann (1830–1876), the daughter of Navy Minister Admiral C.C.

He married Betzy Laura Rasmussen on 30 November 1878, with whom he had one son:[7] Count Holstein died on 28 April 1892.