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History[]
Early life[]
Mücke was born on June 21, 1881 in Zwickau, Saxony. He was a son of an Army Captain who later joined the Imperial Civil Service. At the age of 18, Mücke became a naval cadet and served on the school-ship Charlotte and later the battleship Kaiser Friedrich III. He became Leutnant zur See in September 1903 and was posted to the light cruiser Nymphe. In 1907, he became first officer of the 3rd Torpedo Boat Reserve Half-Flotilla and a year later a flag lieutenant to the Commander of Scouting Forces. He received command of the torpedo boat S.149 in 1910, while simultaneously acting as flag lieutenant for the First Torpedo Boat Flotilla.
Weltkrieg[]
In Autumn 1914, Mücke was Executive Officer and First Lieutenant of the German Light Cruiser SMS Emden. It was based in the German colony of Qingdao. Emden raided both Madras and Penang at managed to intercept dozens of Entente ships at sea. When Qingdao fell to the Japanese forces in 1914, Mücke went to participate in the Battle of the Cocos Sea, which Germany lost and Mücke escaped on a long journey from Indonesia, Arabia to Constantinople and then back to Germany.
After the Weltkrieg[]
In 1926, Mücke would return to Asia and would be named the Governer of German East Asia. He continues to hold that position until present day.