Heinrich Blücher
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Heinrich Blücher (29 January 1899 – 30 October 1970) was a German poet and philosopher. He was the second husband of Hannah Arendt.
Blücher was born in Berlin. As a member of the Communist Party of Germany, Blücher, then a university lecturer (Dozent), had to flee Germany. He married Arendt in France, and they emigrated to New York in 1941.
Blücher encouraged his wife to become involved with Marxism and political theory, though ultimately her use of Karl Marx was in no way orthodox, as shown in such works as The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and The Human Condition (1958). Blücher died in New York City.
