The Freikorps Oberland ("Highlands Free Corps"; also Bund Oberland or Kameradschaft Freikorps und Bund Oberland) was a voluntary paramilitary organization...
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Trümbach's Freikorps (Voluntaires de Prusse) (FI) Kleist's Freikorps (FII) Glasenapp's Free Dragoons (F III) Schony's Freikorps (F IV) Gschray's Freikorps (F...
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Beppo Römer (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
ˈʁøː.mɐ] ; 17 November 1892 – 25 September 1944) was a member of the Freikorps Oberland, one of the paramilitary organizations that sprang up around Germany...
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restaurant. Allegedly he took part in the putsch as a member of the Freikorps Oberland, and was fatally shot by the police. In reality, Kuhn was an innocent...
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Weimar paramilitary groups (section Freikorps)
forces at the 100,000 man limit, that the Freikorps were officially disbanded in the spring of 1920. Some Freikorps members were then accepted into the Reichswehr...
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Silesian Eagle (category 20th-century Freikorps)
medal awarded to members of the German right-wing paramilitary group Freikorps Oberland for three or six months of service, as well as for fighting during...
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and purged of any mention of the Freikorps Caspari or Division Gerstenberg. Freikorps Lichtschlag Freikorps Oberland Marinebrigade Ehrhardt Schwarzwälder...
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suspect as early as 9 April due to his connections to the Freikorps Oberland. As a Freikorps member, Gump was said to have participated in the murder of...
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Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
then after Austria-Hungary had formally surrendered, in the German Freikorps Oberland and the Steirischer Heimatschutz. Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg...
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into Freikorps. After the suppression of the soviet republic at the beginning of May, during which about 335 civilians were killed by Freikorps fighters...
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Ernest Peter Burger (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
Born in Augsburg, Burger was a machinist by trade. Burger joined the Freikorps Oberland when he was 15, and became a member of the Nazi Party at the age of...
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Hilmar Wäckerle (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
Like his classmate Heinrich Himmler, he joined the anti-communist Freikorps Oberland and was an early member of the Nazi Party. Wäckerle was present during...
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Julian Scherner (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
Oberleutnant. After retiring from the military in 1920, he joined the Freikorps Oberland. Following the war, Scherner worked as a bank clerk from 1920 until...
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List of free corps (category Freikorps)
Napoleonic Wars Freikorps Caspari Freikorps Oberland Freikorps Lichtschlag Freikorps in the Baltic British Free Corps (BFC; German: Britisches Freikorps), in the...
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Battle of Annaberg (category 20th-century Freikorps)
Several independent paramilitary Freikorps units were formed from the remnants of the German Imperial Army. The German Freikorps units often did not obey orders...
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Karl Mauss (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
class. Following World War I Mauss joined the paramilitary groups Freikorps Oberland and Marinebrigade Ehrhardt and fought against the Silesian Uprisings...
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Karl Astel (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
the Kapp Putsch and also the Beer Hall Putsch, as a member of the Freikorps Oberland. Astel studied medicine in Würzburg and earned his PhD around 1930...
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other Freikorps awards were declared obsolete with World War I service thereafter recognized by a single award, known as the Honour Cross. Freikorps awards...
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Karl Gebhardt (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
medicine in Munich beginning in 1919. In 1923, Gebhardt, a member of the Freikorps Oberland, participated in the Beer Hall Putsch. In 1924, after two years as...
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father being a low-ranking government official. He served in the Freikorps Oberland in 1921, and went on to study in Vienna, earning a degree in engineering...
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Eleonore Baur (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
Baur served as a nurse during World War I and then assisted the Freikorps Oberland troops during their battle against the Bavarian Soviet Republic and...
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Franz Hayler (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
became involved in German nationalism early on, fighting with the Freikorps Oberland in 1919 against the Bavarian Soviet Republic, in the Ruhr area and...
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Josef Albert Meisinger (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
Headquarters. As leader of the III Platoon of the II Company of the Freikorps Oberland, he took part in the Hitlerputsch on 8–9 November 1923. He was inducted...
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of Freikorps Roßbach, a rumour arose that he was a deserter from the Freikorps and a Polish spy. The suspicions were reported to a Freikorps Oberland lieutenant...
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Hanns Albin Rauter (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
conflict in Carinthia, and from May until July 1921 he fought in the Freikorps Oberland in Oberschlesien. For his service during the war, Rauter received...
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Rudolf Jordan (politician) (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
volunteer in the Reichswehr. In 1922, Jordan became a member of the Freikorps Oberland, and alongside this service ended his teacher training in 1924. At...
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mathematician, mother of Kathy Ernst Horadam [de] (1883–1956), leader of the Freikorps Oberland and later German Nazi officer Kathy Horadam (born 1951), Australian...
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Richard Arauner (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
owner family and completed his farmer-diploma. In 1923 he joined the Freikorps Oberland and participated in the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. On 1 May 1933...
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Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
I he served on the Italian Front and then in 1921 was a member of Freikorps Oberland. Seeking election to the Bundesrat, the representation of Austrian...
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Horst Böhme (SS officer) (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
involved in the Jungstahlhelm, the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt and the Freikorps Oberland. Böhme joined the NSDAP in 1930 (Nazi Party membership number 236...
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