Helmut Bischoff
Helmut Hermann Wilhelm Bischoff (1 March 1908 – 5 January 1993) was a German SS-Obersturmbannführer, Gestapo officer and Nazi 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. Between 1967 and 1970 Bischoff was a defendant in the Essen-Dora war crimes trial. Early life Bischoff was born on 1 March 1908 in the town of Glogau in the Province of Silesia, then a part of the German Empire (now: Głogów, Poland). He was the son of a prosperous metzgermeister (master butcher) and attended the Glogau Gymnasium as a youth. From 1923 to 1925 Bischoff was a member of Bund Wiking, a paramilitary group associated with the right-wing Organisation Consul movement. After graduating from gymnasium, Bischoff went on to study law at Leipzig University (where he was a member of the Leipziger Burschenschaft Dresdendia) and the University of Geneva. It was during his time as a law student that Bischoff