Robert Mulka

Robert Karl Ludwig Mulka (12 April 1895 – 26 April 1969) was an SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) and later demoted to Obersturmführer (first lieutenant or lieutenant). He was a commander at Auschwitz concentration camp. Known as the "Eichmann of Auschwitz", he was adjutant to the camp commandant, SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss, making him second in command of the camp.

Life 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. When asked to elaborate, he pointed to the striped prisoner uniforms, commenting that his SS colleagues had "no style". In the conviction, the court noted that:

Death He attempted suicide while in Kassel prison, and was released in 1968 on compassionate grounds due to being severely ill, and died the following year in Hamburg, aged 74.