Heinrich Blücher
German philosopher ‧ Hannah Arendt's husbandWikipedia
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Oct 9, 2026
Roger BerkowitzGUEST
I, when her ...
Roger BerkowitzGUEST
A- a- after they got to United States, um, you know, I think it was hard for her mother to, to live with Arendt and, and her husband, Heinrich Blücher, and, uh, and they eventually, um, she did leave and go to, to, to England.
Roger BerkowitzGUEST
Um, you know, I, I, I wouldn't ...
Roger BerkowitzGUEST
I, I don't think it's ...
Roger BerkowitzGUEST
She thinks the world is broken, and she built it through her friendships.
Roger BerkowitzGUEST
Um, uh, would it have been different if she had a very strong family life? Yeah, it, it probably would have.
Roger BerkowitzGUEST
I mean, but Heinrich Blücher, right, her, her second husband who, along with Heidegger and Jaspers, I would say, are the three most important pe- men in her lives, I mean, the fourth would be Hans Jonas.
Roger BerkowitzGUEST
Um, but, you know, these were all older men, right? Um, Blücher was also older.
Jennifer SzalaiGUEST
There were denaturalization campaigns taking place.
Jennifer SzalaiGUEST
Her husband was actually a former communist who denied it on his immigration application, and they were living in fear that somebody would denounce him.
Jennifer SzalaiGUEST
She saw up close the way in which state power could be used to crush not only dissent, but also the free flow of ideas.
Jennifer SzalaiGUEST
I mean, this idea of conversation, essentially, that people will sort of figure out what it is that they know and how they see the world and different ways of seeing the world through conversation with others.
Jennifer SzalaiGUEST
It got her into trouble.
Donovan HohnHOST
Well, tell us about the trouble.
Donovan HohnHOST
I mean, the trouble – she gets into – she starts – She has got trouble with her husband, Heinrich Blucher, because of fear of the Red Scare.
Donovan HohnHOST
But then she invites more with Eichmann in Jerusalem probably being the largest trouble she invites.
Roger BerkowitzGUEST
Um, you know, it was...
Roger BerkowitzGUEST
I, I came to Bard College in 2005, and, uh, she's buried at Bard, along with her, uh, second husband, Heinrich Blücher, who taught at Bard for 16 years and was a beloved professor there.
Roger BerkowitzGUEST
And, uh, she also left her library to Bard, uh, which, um, you know, is in the, in the current library.
Roger BerkowitzGUEST
And so, uh, it was her 100th birthday in 2006, and I thought, you know, I'm not a Hannah Arendt scholar, 'cause I wasn't then, um, but I always had really found her work to be incredibly, uh, insightful and provocative, and so I thought let's, let's do a conference.
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Roger BerkowitzGUEST
She said, um, she...
Roger BerkowitzGUEST
Remember, she was married to...
Roger BerkowitzGUEST
Her second husband was Heinrich Blücher, who was not Jewish, so she took very seriously, um, the right to marry, uh, interracial marriages.
Roger BerkowitzGUEST
And what she says is, "It is absolutely the r- a right of everyone to love and marry who they want." And she said, "Every Jew should be able to marry a Jew or a non-Jew, and every white or Black person should be able to marry a white or Black person, and the state cannot tell me who to marry." But she said, "If the state were to try and tell me I must marry someone of another race or of another religion as a kind of way to integrate, uh, society," she said, "that's a violation of my privacy." And what she said is, "Education on, on a certain level is a private act." She said, "There's, there's not many more private acts.