Erich Walther von Holst was a German behavioral physiologist who was a Baltic German native of Riga, Livonia and was related to historian Hermann Eduard von Holst (1841–1904). In the 1950s he founded the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology at Seewiesen, Bavaria.
- Occupation
- ornithologist, zoologist, physiologist, film producer
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Born
- November 28, 1908
- Died
- May 26, 1962