Robert Mohr (police officer)
Robert Mohr (born April 5, 1897 in Bistigart (Palatinate); † February 5, 1977 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a German police officer . He headed the special commission responsible for finding the White Rose resistance group .
Life
Robert Mohr was born in 1897 into the family of a Palatinate master mason. He had five brothers and three sisters. Mohr completed an apprenticeship as a tailor, but never practiced this profession. Mohr took part in World War I as a soldier and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class. In May 1919 he retired from the German Army . In October 1919, Mohr joined the Bavarian gendarmerie . On May 1, 1933, he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 3.271.936). He was also a member of the National Socialist Motor Corps , the Reich Air Protection Association , the Reich Colonial Association and the National Socialist People's Welfare . In the 1930s he worked as a police chief in Frankenthal (Palatinate) . From 1938 he was with the Gestapo in Munich .
From February 18 to 20, 1943, he interrogated Sophie Scholl and, according to the interrogation protocol, got her to confess the distribution of the White Rose leaflets. In a letter from 1951 to Robert Scholl , Sophie's father, he claims that he tried to save Sophie's life. She should testify that her brother Hans Scholl influenced her and that she had a different political opinion.
After the investigation into the resistance group was over, Mohr became head of the Gestapo office in occupied Mulhouse in Alsace . Because of this, he was interned by the French occupying forces around 1947. From 1948 he worked in the spa administration in Bad Dürkheim . Although he was only active in the rank of detective commissioner when the Nazi regime collapsed , he was officially granted a pension in the post-war period as a detective superintendent, since without the collapse of the Third Reich he would have been promoted at least once if he had had a straight career. Robert Mohr died in 1977 and never had to answer for his Gestapo work in court.
media
Movie
- Sophie Scholl - The Last Days , Director: Marc Rothemund ; Here Robert Mohr's person is embodied by the actor Alexander Held .
literature
- Inge Aicher-Scholl The White Rose. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1994, ISBN 3-596-11802-6 . With a reprint of Robert Mohr's report to Robert Scholl
supporting documents
- ^ Report from 1951 in: Online Edition Mythos Elser
- ↑ According to his son Willi Mohr, in the film documentation by Ulrich Chaussy "Sophie Scholl - All violence despite ..." from 2005, ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5h6OyPjhyE ) , Minute 54, accessed July 1, 2018.
Web links
- Kirsten Schulz: Robert Mohr. Chief Criminal Secretary at the Gestapo control center in Munich. An article published by the Federal Agency for Political Education at bpb.de on April 20, 2005.
- Interrogation protocol in: Online Edition Mythos Elser
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mohr, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Germans involved in the persecution of the White Rose resistance group as a Gestapo officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bi-difference |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th February 1977 |
| Place of death | Ludwigshafen am Rhein |