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    The Baltic Landwehr or Baltische Landeswehr ("Baltic Territorial Army") was the name of the unified armed forces of Couronian and Livonian nobility from...
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  • 200 oil shale specialists employed by Baltische Öl were evacuated to Schömberg, Germany to work the Operation Desert (Unternehmen Wüste). In August 1942...
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    westward offensive of 1918–1919 and the 1919 aggression of the pro–German Baltische Landeswehr. The campaign was the struggle of the newly established democratic...
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    occupied by the German army in 1917 and German Freikorps and Baltic-German Baltische Landeswehr units were still active in the area. Estonia had established...
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    Estonia in 1944, about 200 oil shale specialists from Estonia, employees of Baltische Öl GmbH , an affiliate of IG Farben, were evacuated to Schömberg. However...
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  • Robert Mulka (category Baltische Landeswehr personnel)
    lieutenant of the reserve Imperial Army. From 1918 to 1920 he joined the Baltische Landeswehr and fought against Bolshevism in the Baltics. In 1920, he returned...
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  • Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (category Baltische Landeswehr personnel)
    his Final Exams (Abitur), Loringhoven joined the Baltic-German Army (Baltische Landeswehr) in 1918, and with the formation of independent Latvia he became...
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    Latvian War of Independence (category Naval battles and operations in the Baltic Sea)
    reduced to the area surrounding Latgale. After the capture of Riga the Baltische Landeswehr and Iron Division advanced north towards Cēsis. The objective...
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    note in the "References" section. Solveig Grothe (10 July 2021), Die Baltische Titanic [The baltic Titanic] (in German), Der Spiegel, pp. 46–48 Michael...
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  • Anne Siemen: Die Opfer der RAF Baltische Historische Kommision (Hrsg.): Eintrag zu Mirbach, Andreas v,, In: BBLD - Baltisches biografisches Lexikon digital...
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  • – Estonian and Latvian Wars of Independence: The advancing pro-German Baltische Landeswehr initiates war against Estonia in Northern Latvia. June 6 –...
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    Accessed 10 May 2023. Bezotosny 2016. Carl Arvid von Klingspor (1882). Baltisches Wappenbuch. Stockholm. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-543-98710-5. Retrieved 3 April...
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    German occupation, the industry was merged into a company named Baltische Öl GmbH. Baltische Öl became the largest industry in the Estonian territory. This...
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    Germany. Iron Division (Eiserne Division, related to Eiserne Brigade and Baltische Landeswehr) Fought in the Baltic. Defeated by the Estonian Army and Latvian...
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    Bolshevist Russia to the east and against the Baltic German forces (the Baltische Landeswehr) to the south. The Tartu Peace Treaty (February 1920) marked...
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    Switzerland. From the notes of an eyewitness (Paul Tiesenhausen). In: Baltische Monatschrift. Volume 13, Riga 1866, pp. 242–259, here p. 257 f. (Digital...
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  • subsequent German occupation, the industry was merged into a company named Baltische Öl GmbH, subordinated to Kontinentale Öl. During the following Soviet...
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    Albert Leo Schlageter (category Baltische Landeswehr personnel)
    the Ruhr in 1923, Schlageter led a group of nationalists in sabotage operations against the occupying force. The group managed to derail a number of trains...
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  • in the Caucasus were never captured by the German Army. In July 1941, Baltische Öl GmbH was founded for the oil shale extraction in Estonia. In August...
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  • regular battles in the next few months. During April 22–24, 1919, the Baltische Landeswehr Bauska Battalion [lv] with 300 volunteer soldiers was formed...
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    Provisional government headed by Andrievs Niedra and supported by the Baltische Landeswehr and the German Freikorps unit Iron Division. Estonian and Latvian...
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    name. List of Baltic German scientists Carl Arvid von Klingspor (1882). Baltisches Wappenbuch. Stockholm. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-543-98710-5. Retrieved 11 April...
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    and Semigallia into a unified state. An armed force in the form of the Baltische Landeswehr was created in November 1918, just before the surrender of...
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     184–185. Retrieved March 19, 2024. Kersten, Eduard Alexander Felix. BBLD – Baltisches biografisches Lexikon Digital. Elsa Keslassy: Woody Harrelson to Star...
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  • Rustamiyah – via www.thetimes.co.uk. "Austin announces US-led security operation focusing on Red Sea, Gulf of Aden after Houthi attacks on commercial shipping"...
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    connecting Tallinn to Warsaw using standard gauge, expected to be put into operation in 2024. Latvian Railways (Latvian: Latvijas dzelzceļš or LDz) operates...
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    (1974) "Wirén, Robert Reinhold v.", BBLD – Baltisches biografisches Lexikon digital, Göttingen: Baltische Historische Kommission, 2012 "von Wirén, Robert...
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    Estonia from the Soviets, the battalion moved south into Latvia against the Baltische Landeswehr. On 25 May 1919, the battalion successfully stopped the German...
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    shparo.com. Retrieved 7 January 2019. Carl Arvid von Klingspor (1882). Baltisches Wappenbuch. Stockholm. p. 223. ISBN 978-0-543-98710-5. Retrieved 18 April...
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  • umpire. 1919 – Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory...
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