The Freikorps Oberland ("Highlands Free Corps"; also Bund Oberland or Kameradschaft Freikorps und Bund Oberland) was a voluntary paramilitary organization...
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state government fled to Bamberg and stayed there for almost two years before the Bavarian capital of Munich was retaken by Freikorps units (see Bavarian Soviet...
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him the services of 20,000 men of the Freikorps under Lt. General Burghard von Oven [de]. Oven and the Freikorps, along with Hoffmann's loyalist elements...
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government had Munich occupied by Reichswehr troops and paramilitary Freikorps units, Hoffmann and his cabinet were able to return in May 1919. However...
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Otto Strasser (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
twice wounded. He returned to Germany in 1919, where he served in the Freikorps that in May 1919 put down the Bavarian Soviet Republic, which was organized...
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the counterrevolutionaries was five formations: the Freikorps Reinhard, Freikorps Lützow, Freikorps Hülsen, Guards Cavalry Rifle Division and German Protection...
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Johann Baptist Fuchs (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
war, Fuchs remained in the military as the chief of staff of the Freikorps Bamberg and a battalion commander with the Wehrregiment München (Munich Defense...
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Gregor Strasser (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
the war, he and his brother became members of Franz Ritter von Epp's Freikorps. He joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in 1920 and quickly became an influential...
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335 civilians were killed by Freikorps fighters, Munich's leaders wanted to maintain the capabilities of the Freikorps but without their drawbacks. They...
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Rudolf Berthold (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
organized a Freikorps and fought in the Latvian War of Independence. Upon return in 1920, Berthold refused to disarm and together with his Freikorps joined...
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by the Freikorps to secure the city. After his arrest on 2 May, Gustav Landauer was humiliated, abused, and executed by firing squad by Freikorps soldiers...
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him the services of 20,000 men of the Freikorps under Lt. General Burghard von Oven [de]. Oven and the Freikorps then took Dachau and surrounded Munich...
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– Reichswehr army units and right-wing Nationalist Freikorps – which were called in by the Bamberg SPD leadership under Johannes Hoffmann, was not salvageable...
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Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
end in November 1918, he became active in the Freikorps. He formed and led the Westphalian “Freikorps von Pfeffer” in the Baltic states, the Ruhr and...
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Otto Deßloch (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
in Bamberg, he joined the Bavarian Army in 1910 and served during World War I.[citation needed] After the German defeat, he joined the Freikorps forces...
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Rheinhessen. and led to the calling up of a Rhenish-Hessian volunteer army or Freikorps by Franz Zitz and Ludwig Bamberger. Military command was initially given...
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Eduard Dietl (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
the National Socialist German Workers Party, and the paramilitary group Freikorps of Franz Ritter von Epp in 1919. Dietl continued to serve in the German...
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Helmuth Brückner (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
France. In 1921 he was Ib–Gruppe Nord with the Deutschen Selbstschutz (Freikorps) in Oberschlesien. He participated in the failed “Beer Hall Putsch” on...
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Deutscher Schutz- und Trutzbund when it was founded in February 1919 in Bamberg for the purpose of "fighting" Judaism during a meeting of the Alldeutscher...
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Karl Kaufmann (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
seen front line action. From February 1919 to May 1920 Kaufmann was a Freikorps member of the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt. In 1920 he joined the Deutschvölkischer...
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Hans Georg Hofmann (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
Volksschule in Hof and in Steinwiesen, and then a humanistic Gymnasium in Bamberg, receiving his Abitur in 1893. On 1 August of that year, he joined the...
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Erich Koch (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
from 1915 to the end of the war in 1918. He later fought as a member of Freikorps Rossbach in Upper Silesia. A skilled trader, Koch joined the railway service...
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Friedrich Hildebrandt (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
second class. In January 1919, he returned to Mecklenburg and joined the Freikorps "von Brandis," seeing action in Upper Silesia and the Baltic states until...
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Leviné as their leader. In May 1919, the republic was defeated by the Freikorps. The noted authors Max Weber and Thomas Mann testified on Toller's behalf...
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Joseph Friedrich Abert (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
born in 1879 in Würzburg. His uncle was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bamberg, Friedrich Philipp von Abert. In 1898 he passed his final exams, and studied...
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was appointed to lead a Freikorps, or an independent corps, with which he achieved some of his greatest successes. The Freikorps consisted of 22 squadrons...
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many war veterans from a middle-class background, he joined with the Freikorps in opposition to the Munich Soviet Republic but in early 1919, he left...
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elements of the German Army and notably the Freikorps, the Bavarian Soviet Republic fell in May 1919. The Bamberg Constitution (Bamberger Verfassung) was...
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the extent that most of the fighting against the Red Army was done by Freikorps units and other German troops from outside Bavaria. During World War I...
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60 Gauleiters and party leaders, including Goebbels, to a special conference in Bamberg, in Streicher's Gau of Franconia, where he gave a two-hour speech repudiating...
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