Heinrich Blücher

Heinrich Blücher (born 1899 in Berlin, d. 1970) was a German poet and philosopher. He was the husband of Hannah Arendt.

As a member of the German Communist Party, Blücher, then a university lecturer (Dozent), had to flee Germany. He married Arendt in France, and they emigrated to New York in 1941.

Heinrich Blücher stimulated his wife to become involved with Marxism and political theory.