Mulhouse is in Alsace and as such was within the Imperial German territory of Alsace-Lorrain governed by Germany between 1871 and 1919. It sits on the Rhein and was held by the Germans throughout the First War except for a pathetic twenty-four hour period around August 7th 1914 when the frog general Bonneau's VII Corps captured it. Given the French name of the saddler, this may well be the place as the German, and ethnically correct, treatment of the name would be either Muhlhausen or Muhlheim (both with an umlaut over the u)
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