Adolf von Bomhard

Adolf von Bomhard (6 January 1891 in Augsburg – 19 July 1976) was an SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Ordnungspolizei (Orpo; order police) in Nazi Germany.

[1] Bomhard was sent to Kyiv in November 1942 to succeed Otto von Oelhafen [de] as head of police in Reichskommissariat Ukraine.

Bomhard followed the same path as his predecessor of integrating police operations with the activities of the SS in the area.

[2] Retaining that position until October 1943, Bomhard took an important role in ideological instruction of the Ukrainian police in the Nazi Weltanschauung.

[3] After the Second World War ended, Bomhard served between 1960 and 1966 as mayor of Prien am Chiemsee and received honorary citizenship there in 1971[4] which was posthumously renounced by the city council in 2013.