Carl (or Charles) Edmund Mumme (1839 – 12 June 1919)[1] was a German immigrant to South Australia, remembered as a tenor singer and conductor of the Adelaide Liedertafel and several Roman Catholic church choirs, including St Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Adelaide.
In 1859 Mumme was part-owner of a drapery shop at 134 Rundle Street, Adelaide, in partnership with brothers Emil and Gustav and brother-in-law Johannes Carl Friedrich Brandenburg.
The venture failed in 1862,[3] and they were forced to sell up their stock,[4] following which Mumme was in 1865 found insolvent, their losses being mostly bad debts.
[12] In March 1894 Mumme left for Western Australia, where he was soon "back in harness", and in October led the massed choirs of Perth and Fremantle in the Corpus Christi procession at Subiaco.
[14] He died age 82[15] A captioned photo of Mumme appeared in a newspaper nearly two years later[16] with no obvious relevance.