Adolf von Bomhard

{{Short description|German Nazi, SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Ordnungspolizei}}

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|birth_place= Augsburg, German Empire

|death_place=Prien am Chiemsee, West Germany

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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. In the post-war era he was Bürgermeister of Prien am Chiemsee.

During the First World War, Bomhard saw service as an officer in the Bavarian Army, eventually finishing the war as adjutant to Franz Ritter von Epp.Philip W. Blood, Hitler's Bandit Hunters: the SS and the Nazi occupation of Europe, Potomac Books, 2006, p. 27 Bomhard would later write and publish the history of his regiment.

Bomhard was sent to Kyiv in November 1942 to succeed {{Ill|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.Ray Brandon, Wendy Lower, The Shoah in Ukraine: history, testimony, memorialization, Indiana University Press, 2008, p. 46 Retaining that position until October 1943, Bomhard took an important role in ideological instruction of the Ukrainian police in the Nazi Weltanschauung.Wendy Lower, Nazi empire-building and the Holocaust in Ukraine, UNC Press Books, 2005, p. 254

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{{Cite news|url=https://ww2gravestone.com/people/bomhard-adolf-theodor-ernst-von/|title=Bomhard, Adolf Theodor Ernst von - WW2 Gravestone|work=WW2 Gravestone|access-date=2017-05-18|language=en-US}} which was posthumously renounced by the city council in 2013.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ovb-online.de/rosenheim/chiemgau/distanziert-sich-handlungen-2912667.html|title=Rat distanziert sich von Handlungen |language=de|website=www.ovb-online.de|date=May 18, 2013}} He was also involved in societies for former members of the police.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/in-haerte-und-groesse-a-969beb6d-0002-0001-0000-000046106824|title=In Härte und Größe|date=Apr 21, 1968|accessdate=Feb 6, 2023|magazine=Der Spiegel|language=de}}