Heinrich Scheel (historian)

This article is about the German historian. For the German architect, see Heinrich Scheel.
Scheel while at the Berlin Academy of Sciences

Heinrich Scheel (born 11 December 1915 in Kreuzberg; died 7 January 1996 in Berlin) was a German left-wing historian and longtime vice president of the East German Academy of Sciences[1] and professor of modern history at Humboldt University of Berlin. Scheel was notable for putting forward a theory of the German radical at the time of the French revolution, in an attempt to determine an alternative tradition in Germany.[2] Scheel was most notable for being a German resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, during World War II. He was a member of a Berlin-based anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra ("Rote Kapelle") by the Abwehr, during the Nazi regime.[3]

  1. ^ Andreas Dorpalen (1985). German History in Marxist Perspective: The East German Approach. Wayne State University Press. p. 526. ISBN 978-0-8143-1804-1. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  2. ^ A.U.M.L.A. Vol. 81–83. 1994. p. 87. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Scheel, Heinrich". Foundation for the Study of Communist Dictatorship in East Germany (in German). Berlin: Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur. Retrieved 12 January 2019.