Nikolaus von Uxkull Gyllenband

Nikolaus Graf von Uxkull-Gyllenband (14 February 1877 – 14 September 1944) was a German businessman who took part in the 20 July plot.

Nikolaus von Uxkull-Gyllenband was born in Guns (Hungarian: Koszeg), Austria-Hungary and joined the Austro–Hungarian Army prior to the First World War. After the war Uxkull worked as a businessman in Germany. He was an uncle of Claus von Stauffenberg. In autumn 1939 Uxkull and Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg contacted Stauffenberg and tried to win him for a coup d'etat against Hitler.

In the planning of the 20 July plot Uxkull was supposed to become the liaison officer for the military district of Bohemia-Moravia. After the plot failed Uxkull was arrested by the Gestapo on 23 July 1944. Uxkull gave the atrocities in the Nazi concentration camps as the reason for his involvement in the plot. He was sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof on 14 September 1944 and killed the same day in Plotzensee prison next to Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten, Hermann Josef Wehrle and Michael Graf von Matuschka.