Herman Scheel

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{{Infobox officeholder

| image= 200px

| office= Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway

| term_start= 1920

| term_end= 1929

| predecessor= Karenus K. Thinn

| successor= Paal Berg

| office2= Minister of Justice

| term_start2= 2 February 1910

| term_end2= 20 February 1912

| primeminister2= Wollert Konow

| predecessor2= Johan Castberg

| successor2= Fredrik Stang

| birth_name= Herman Carsten Johannes Scheel

| birth_date= {{birth date|1859|1|18|df=y}}

| birth_place= Hamar, Hedmark, Sweden-Norway

| death_date= {{Death date and age|1956|9|29|1859|1|18|df=y}}

| death_place=

| spouse= Sara Leonore Sandberg

| children= Elisabeth Scheel

| party= Conservative

}}

Herman Carsten Johannes Scheel (18 January 1859 – 29 September 1956) was a Norwegian judge and politician for the Conservative Party.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Herman Scheel|encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/Herman_Scheel|language=Norwegian|accessdate=13 October 2010}}

He was born at Hamar in Hedmark, Norway. He was the elder brother of the portrait painter Signe Scheel (1860–1942){{cite web|url= https://nbl.snl.no/Signe_Scheel|title=Signe Scheel|publisher = Norsk biografisk leksikon|author=Anne Aaserud |authorlink=Anne Aaserud|accessdate= 1 February 2017 }} He was married to Sara Leonore Sandberg. He is a great-grandfather of Georg Scheel.{{cite news|title=Arvelig belastet jurist|last=Byles|first=Anine G.|date=15 April 2010|work=Budstikka|pages=62–63|language=Norwegian}}

Scheel enrolled at the Royal Frederick University from 1876 and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1881. Following studies in Berlin and London, he was from 1887 a research fellow and lecturer at the Royal Frederick University. He took the dr.juris degree in 1892, and was temporarily appointed professor from 1893 to 1898, while professor Francis Hagerup was Minister of Justice and the Police and Prime Minister.{{cite web|url= https://nbl.snl.no/Francis_Hagerup|title= Francis Hagerup|publisher = Norsk biografisk leksikon|author= Bodil Chr. Erichsen|accessdate= 1 February 2017 }} Scheel later became Minister of Justice, from 1910 to 1912 in the centre-right Konow's Cabinet.{{cite web|url=http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=storting&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=18114|title=Herman Carsten Johannes Scheel|publisher=Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)|language=Norwegian|accessdate=6 April 2012}}

Notable scholarly publications include Om ægtefællers formuesforhold and Forelæsninger over norsk tingsret. He was Supreme Court Assessor from 1889 to 1910 and from 1912. From 1920 to 1929 he was the 11th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.