Robert Mohr

Robert Mohr ( born April 5, 1897 in Bisterschied (Pfalz ), † February 5, 1977 in Ludwigshafen, Germany ) was a German policeman. He headed the Special Commission, which was responsible for finding the resistance group White Rose.

Life

Robert Mohr was born in 1897 into the family of a Palatine master builder. He had five brothers and three sisters. Mohr trained as a tailor, this profession but never exercised. Mohr took part as a soldier in the First World War and was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class. In May 1919 he resigned from the German army. In October 1919 Mohr joined the Bavarian police. On 1 May 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP ( Mitgliedsnr. 3271936 ). He also belonged to the National Socialist Motor Corps, the Reichsluftschutzbund, the Reichskolonialbund and the National Socialist People's Welfare. In the 1930s he worked as a police chief in Frankenthal ( Pfalz). From 1938 he worked for the Gestapo in Munich.

He interrogated from 18 to February 20, 1943 Sophie Scholl and brought them out loud interrogation protocol to confess the distribution of the leaflets of the White Rose. In a letter of 1951 to Robert Scholl, the father of Sophie, he claims he was trying to save the life of Sophie. You should testify to the fact that her brother Hans Scholl influences and they have a different political opinion.

After completion of the investigation against the resistance group Mohr has been chief of the Gestapo office in occupied Alsace Mulhouse. Around 1947, he was therefore interned by the French. From 1948 he worked in the spa in Bad Durkheim. Robert Mohr died in 1977 and never had to answer for his Gestapo activities in court.

Media

Film

• Sophie Scholl - The Final Days, directed by Marc Rothemund