Herbert Scheibe (born Hohenmölsen 28 November 1914: died Berlin 7 February 1991) was an East German Generaloberst and, between 1967 and 1972, Commanding general of the country's Airforce.

[2] He received a basic education at the small local school and then undertook an apprenticeship as a typesetter in Gohlis (Leipzig).

He was arrested in August 1933, charged with preparing to commit high treason ("Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat") and sentenced to eight months of detention, which he spent at the Bautzen Correction Centre.

He was initially taken back to Bauzen before being transferred, in 1937, to Buchenwald where at one stage he was put in charge of the camp post office.

On 1 June 1945 he joined the People's Police (VP / Volkspolizei) in the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ / Sowjetische Besatzungszone), in the central part of what had till recently been Germany.

Herbert Scheibe took a job with the Ministry of National Defence (MfNV) as Chief of Military Reconnaissance.