Note that as a proud Saxon, von Mücke is wearing his Saxon Order of St Henry at the head of his bar.

Helmuth von Mücke (1881-1957) was born in Zwickau, Saxony and became a naval cadet at the age of eighteen. In 1903 he became Leutnant zur See, his promotion continued with various peacetime commands. When war broke out he was second officer onboard the SMS Emden under Kapitän zur See Karl von Müller at Tsingtao. The SMS Emden sailed out of Tsingtao into the Indian Ocean to create havoc amongst allied shipping. At the time of the SMS Emden being finally sunk off the Cocos Islands, von Mücke and a landing party were onshore and escaped capture. Under his leadership they managed to make their way back to Germany on an epic journey, firstly across the Indian Ocean (in a captured sailing ship), then after landing on the Red Sea coastline, they marched across the desert fighting hostile Arab tribesmen along the way until they were picked up by Ottoman troops. They arrived in Istanbul to a hero's welcome in May 1915, travelling on to Germany from there. Von Mücke went on to write two books on his wartime experiences. After the war, he served as an NSDAP representative in the Saxon Parliament for three years but gave up the post as he opposed rearmament. His further pacifist writings were banned as subversive and he spent several spells in various concentration camps for his beliefs.