Helmut Bischoff (March 1, 1908 – January 5, 1993) was a German lawyer, Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and Nazi official. During World War II Bischoff served as the leader of Einsatzkommando 1/IV in Poland and later as chief of the Gestapo departments in Poznań (Posen) and Magdeburg. In 1943 Bischoff would be appointed director of security for Germany's V-weapons program. Between 1967 and 1970 Bischoff was the principal defendant in the Essen-Dora war crimes trial.