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Otto Edler von Graeve (22 July 1872 – 10 January 1948) was a German divining rod proponent.

Biography
He was born on 22 July 1872 to Emil Edler von Graeve (1826–1904), lord of Gotteswalde and Neuhof. Otto von Graeve served in the Prussian army, acheiving the rank of Major before he settled in the small town of Gernrode in Anhalt. In 1913, he published a manuscript on dowsing, ''Meine Wünschelrutentätigkeit. Beobachtungen in Theorie und Praxis nebst einem Anhang: Anerkennungen, Protokoll sämtlicher Schürfungen bis 31. December 1912 und Statistik'' (My dowsing activity: Observations in theory and practice along with an appendix acknowledgments, minutes of all excavations to December 31, 1912 and statistics).

He visited the United States on 27 January 1914 aboard the USS George Washington, passing through New York City on his way to Vancouver Island to divine for radium. He also spent time dowsing in the Sinai Peninsula and in Palestine. The Deutsche Levante-Zeitung reported in November 1915 that von Graeve had dowsed for water at the German temple colony, on the property of the Auguste Viktoria Foundation on the Mount of Olives and on that of a Syrian orphanage.

In 1918, von Graeve is said to have found a mineral spring on the Schwedderberg near Gernrode, allegedly by using a divining rod, which was then used for the local outdoor pool. The town of Gernrode then had three bathing establishments, namely the Osterteich, the Schraderbad and the Ottobad, the latter discovered by and named after von Graeve.

It was reported that during geological explorations undertaken in Thermalbad Wiesenbad between 1919-21 von Graeve was present as a representative of the company Meyer und Co. and, in May 1920 he used his dowsing rod (through a bore hole made by the engineer Röttinger from Halle) to discover a spring that was 25 C, erupted 5.2 m initially on tapping and produced 210 l per minute.

Because of his reported successes, in 1920 he was commissioned by the city of Reutlingen to assist with drilling for a water source. After drilling in vain to a depth of 126 meters at the site von Graeve had indicated, he was expelled from the site.

Von Graeve married Elsbeth Schrey on ​​1 April 1902 in Danzig and they had seven children (four sons and three daughters).

Publications

 * Bestätigungen über erfolgreiche Schürfungen vermittelst der Wünschelrute des Rutengängers [Confirmations of successful prospecting are given by the dowser's dowsing rod] (1911)
 * Hildesheim (1914)
 * Behörden und Wünschelrute [Authorities and dowsing] (1921)
 * Auszug aus den Erfolgen meiner Wünschelrutentätigkeit von 1910 bis 1928 [Excerpt from the successes of my dowsing activity from 1910 to 1928] Padelt, Gernrode (1928)
 * Behörden und Wünschelrute [Authorities and dowsing] (1921)
 * Auszug aus den Erfolgen meiner Wünschelrutentätigkeit von 1910 bis 1928 [Excerpt from the successes of my dowsing activity from 1910 to 1928] Padelt, Gernrode (1928)