Robert Mulka
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1962 mugshot of Mulka in custody of the Hamburg Police
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| Born |
12 April 1895 Hamburg, Germany |
| Died | 26 April 1969 (aged 74) Hamburg, Germany |
| Allegiance |
 Nazi Germany
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| Service/branch |
 Schutzstaffel
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| Rank | SS-Obersturmführer |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Robert Karl Ludwig Mulka (12 April 1895, Hamburg – 26 April 1969, Hamburg) was an SS-Obersturmführer. At Auschwitz concentration camp, he was adjutant to the camp commandant, SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss.
Mulka was the son of a postal assistant. After attending the Volksschule and Realschule, he obtained his secondary school diploma in 1911 and subsequently became a business apprentice at an export agency. In August 1914, he signed up to serve in the First World War; he served in France, Russia and Turkey, eventually being promoted to second lieutenant of the reserve Imperial Army. From 1918 to 1920 he joined the Freikorps and fought against Bolshevism in the Baltics. In 1920, he returned to his hometown, where shortly after taking up work at an agency firm, he was found guilty of receiving stolen property and sentenced to eight months in prison.
Mulka remained with this firm (with whom he had completed his training) until 1931. He became independent, but his own import/export companies were by no means swamped with trade. From 1928 to 1934, Mulka joined the Stahlhelm, which inspired him to be part of the newly strengthened Reichswehr. He was also a member of the National Federation of German Officers and the Deutscher Fichte-Bund. There, he did training in the reserves and was eventually promoted to first lieutenant in 1935, but was released when the army learned of his criminal record, which in turn thwarted all the efforts he made after the start of the Second World War to become an army officer again.
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