Background
Robert Mohr was born in Bisterschied in the Palatinate in 1897 into the family of a Palatine-born master mason, one of six brothers and three sisters.
Robert Mohr was born in Bisterschied in the Palatinate in 1897 into the family of a Palatine-born master mason, one of six brothers and three sisters.
Mohr completed an apprenticeship as a tailor, but never practiced this profession.
In October 1919, Mohr entered into the Bavarian police. In May 1933 he joined the Nazi Party. In the 1930s he worked as a police chief in Frankenthal (Pfalz).
From 1938 he worked for the Gestapo in Munich.
Between 18 and 20 February 1943, Mohr interrogated Sophie Scholl and obtained her confession to the distribution of leaflets for the White Rose movement. After completion of the investigation into the White Rose, Mohr became chief of the Gestapo office in Mulhouse, occupied Alsace.
Around 1947 he was interned by the French but was not tried for his service in the Gestapo. From 1948 he worked in the spa at Bad Dürkheim.
He died in 1977 in Ludwigshafen.
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He headed the special commission that was responsible for the search and arrest of the White Rose, part of the German Resistance to Nazism. He also belonged to the National Socialist Motor Corps, the Reich Air Defense League, the Reich Colonial League and the National Socialist People"s Welfare organisations.