Heinrich Scheel (born 11 December 1915 in Kreuzberg, †7 January 1996 in Berlin) was a German left-wing historian and longtime vice president of the East German Academy of Sciences.
Scheel was notable for putting forward a theory of German radical at the time of the French revolution, in an attempt to determine an alternative tradition in Germany.
Scheel was most notable for being a German Red Orchestra resistance fighter against the Third Reich.