Franz Richard Mugler (28.5.1894 Neunburg vorm Wald/Upper Palatinate – 25.11.1956 Munich)

Mugler participated as a soldier in World War I from 1914 to 1918. As a member of the Free Corps Epp, he participated in the defeat of the Munich Soviet Republic. Even before joining the Nazi Party in 1930, he was an active sympathizer of the Nazi movement in his hometown of Neunburg vorm Wald. Starting in 1935, he served as an SA Senior Storm Leader in the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK). As an ‘old fighter,’ Mugler had good connections to the upper Nazi leadership.

After numerous of his enterprises as a small businessman failed, in 1936 Regional Leader (Gauleiter) Adolf Wagner helped him get a position with the Reich Dentist Leader Karl Schaeffer in Berlin. In 1939, Wagner arranged a position for Mugler with the ‘Aryanization Office‘ in Munich. There, as the second man behind Hans Wegner, he lead the ‘work duty’ and building management departments and exerted control over the three Munich camps for Jews in Milbertshofen, Berg am Laim, and Lohhof. He was known for his sometimes sharp anti-semitic outbursts. He repeatedly mistreated Jews and enriched himself with their assets. Thus, he extorted furniture from the apartment of the Jewish attorney Siegfried Neuland.

In May 1942, Mugler was accused of embezzlement during his time as the Reich Dentist Leader, sentenced to one year's imprisonment, and excluded from the Nazi Party. At the same time, he lost his position at the ‘Aryanization Office’. In March 1943, he was released early for service at the front. In 1948, the tribunal sentenced Mugler to ten years’ in a work camp as a ‘major offender’. Pardoned in 1952, he lived in Munich until his death.