Heinrich Gottfried Otto Richard von[1] Vietinghoff genannt Scheel (6 December 1887[2] – 23 February 1952[3]) was a German general (Generaloberst) of the Wehrmacht during World War II.

[4] On 24 November 1938, Vietinghoff was appointed commander of the 5th Panzer Division[5] and took part in the invasion of Poland under Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb.

[6] During Operation Barbarossa, his Corps was part of Army Group Centre under Field Marshal Fedor von Bock.

In October 1944, he was temporarily raised to overall command in Italy (Army Group C) when Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was seriously injured in a car crash.

Afterwards he spent two and a half years in British captivity at Bridgend Island Farm (Special Camp XI) among high-ranking German prisoners.