Wolf-Heinrich Julius Otto Bernhard Fritz Hermann Ferdinand Graf von Helldorff (14 October 1896 – 15 August 1944) was an SA-Obergruppenführer, German police official and politician.

In April 1932 Helldorff was returned to the Prussian Landtag as a member of the Nazi Party, this time representing constituency 3 (Potsdam II).

In September 1932 he was promoted to SA-Gruppenführer and made leader of SA-Obergruppe I, commanding multiple SA Gruppe covering all northeast Germany.

[8] In his new post, Helldorff was closely allied with Joseph Goebbels, Gauleiter of Berlin and Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

In his diary entry of 19 June 1936, Goebbels commented: "Helldorff is now proceeding radically on the Jewish question ... many arrests ... We will free Berlin of Jews.

[16] Goebbels certainly ensured that Helldorf took the blame for the November pogroms by declaring "the police act with an appearance of legality, the party provides spectators".

[17] Helldorff collaborated closely with his subordinate the Kripo head Arthur Nebe, and was supposed to direct all police forces in Berlin to stand down and not interfere in the military actions to seize the government.

[18] In contrast, Hans Gisevius's book To the Bitter End described Helldorff as playing an important role in a circle of conspirators and anti-Nazis.

[21] Helldorff was friends with the stage magician and psychic Erik Jan Hanussen, who constantly lent him money for his debts.

They had 5 children together: Dr. Lindsay MacNeill: About a thousand men basically appear from within the crowd on the streets and start attacking people.

Dr. Lindsay MacNeill: Officers hesitated to make arrests on Kurfürstendamm in 1935 because they had a new boss: Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorf.

In his prior role as leader of the Berlin SA, Helldorf had instigated in September 1931 the very same kind of street violence that took place on Kurfürstendamm in July 1935.