Helmut Bischoff

Helmut Bischoff
Born	1 March 1908 Glogau, Province of Silesia German Empire
Died	1 January 1993(1993-01-01) (aged 84) Hamburg, Germany
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Allgemeine-SS
Rank	SS-Obersturmbannführer
Unit	SS-Reich Security Main Office (1939–1943) SS-Main Economic and Administrative Office (1943–1945)
Battles/wars	World War II Invasion of Poland (1939) German V-2 campaign (1943–1945)

Helmut Hermann Wilhelm Bischoff (1 March 1908 – 1 January 1993) was a German SS-Obersturmbannführer, Gestapo officer and Nazi government official. During World War II, he was the leader of Einsatzkommando 1/IV in Poland and later headed the Gestapo offices in Poznań (Posen) and Magdeburg.

From 1943 to 1945 Bischoff served as a senior deputy to SS-Obergruppenführer Hans Kammler and was the chief of security for Germany's V-weapons program. He later commanded the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. Following the war, Bischoff would spend nearly a decade in Soviet captivity. He was repatriated to West Germany in 1955. Between 1967 and 1970 Bischoff was a defendant in the Essen-Dora war crimes trial.