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Robert Mulka
Robert Mulka served as commandant’s adjutant and command-staff leader. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Auschwitz, occupied Poland through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Robert Mulka was born on 12 April 1895 in Hamburg and died there on 26 April 1969. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- From April 1942 to March 1943 he was the Auschwitz commandant’s adjutant and command-staff leader; he issued transport orders concerning Zyklon B and the movement of deportees to gas chambers. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In 1965 he was convicted as an accessory to murder in four cases involving at least 750 people each and sentenced to 14 years of penal servitude; he was released on 20 February 1968. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile follows the scope of responsibility established by the court: logistical and staff assistance in specific murder cases, without turning that finding into a claim that Mulka personally carried out every killing. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From April 1942 to March 1943 he served as the Auschwitz commandant’s adjutant and command-staff leader. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He was sentenced to 14 years of penal servitude in 1965 and released from custody on 20 February 1968. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
In the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial he was sentenced in 1965 to 14 years of penal servitude. After several periods in custody, he was released on 20 February 1968. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The minimum of at least 750 people in each of four cases reflects the court’s finding adopted in the defendant’s favour and is not a full victim total for Auschwitz. The profile attributes no conduct beyond the judgment. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.