Heinrich Blücher
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Heinrich Blücher (born 29 January 1899 in Berlin, d. 30 October 1970 in New York) 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, though ultimately her use of Marx was in no way orthodox, as shown in such works as The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and The Human Condition (1958).
