philosopher university professor poet
He was the second husband of Hannah Arendt. Heinrich Blücher began teaching philosophy at Bard College in 1952, continuing for seventeen years, as well as at the New School for Social Research. Blücher also coined the term "the anti-political principle" to describe totalitarianism"s destruction of a space of resistance — a term taken up both by Arendt and Karl Jaspers.
He was a member of the Communist Party of Germany until 1928, but soon rejected Stalinism and left the party in protest of its Stalinist policies. As a Communist (albeit anti-Stalinist), Blücher, then a university lecturer (Dozent), had to flee Germany following the rise of National Socialism.
He then became a member of a small anti-Stalinist group called the Communist Party Opposition.