Helmut Bischoff | |
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Born | 1 March 1908 Glogau, Province of Silesia German Empire |
Died | 5 January 1993 Hamburg, Germany | (aged 84)
Allegiance | Nazi Germany |
Service/ | Allgemeine-SS |
Rank | SS-Obersturmbannführer |
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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.