Richard von Schirach (born 11 February 1942 in Munich) is a German sinologist and author.
He studied at LMU, where he earned a doctorate in Chinese literature in 1974.
In 1973 he published a German version of the autobiography of Chinese Emperor Puyi.
Richard von Schirach is a member of the noble Sorbian Schirach family.
He is a son of the Nazi war criminal Baldur von Schirach, and a grandson of Hitler’s official photographer Heinrich Hoffmann.
He has published a book about his father.
He is the father of the philosopher Ariadne von Schirach and of the author Benedict Wells.