Johan Ludvig Holstein

Privy Councillor of Denmark

7 September 1694 Lübz, Mecklenburg, Germany

29 January 1763(1763-01-29) (68) Copenhagen, Denmark

Issue Christian Frederik Holstein

Johan Ludvig Holstein, Lensgreve til Ledreborg (7 September 1694 – 29 January 1763) was a Danish Minister of state from 1735 to 1751. The Danish colony Holsteinsborg on Greenland (now Sisimiut), was named after him. He was the ancestor of the Holstein-Ledreborg family, including Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg and Knud Johan Ludvig, Lensgreve Holstein til Ledreborg, husband of Princess Marie Gabriele of Luxembourg. In 1739 he built Ledreborg Manor near Lejre, Denmark.