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    thorp); its use is unusual for a settlement as large as Düsseldorf. Linguistically, Düsseldorf is the largest city in the German part of the Low Franconian...
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    Oberkassel Bridge between Düsseldorf-Heerdt and Düsseldorf was opened. 1909: Heerdt, and with Heerdt Oberkassel, became a part of Düsseldorf. 1920: Following the...
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    but also of Freikorps paramilitary soldiers, who finally defeated the workers' uprising and reconquered the Ruhr area. While the Freikorps lost only 250...
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    Waldemar Pabst (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    paramilitary activity in both the Weimar Republic and in Austria. As a Freikorps officer, Captain Pabst gained notoriety for ordering the summary executions...
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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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    members of both parties, but the USPD left following the usage of the Freikorps to suppress the Spartacist uprising. The Communist Party boycotted the...
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    and calls went out for the formation of more Freikorps units. Since early December 1918, such Freikorps units had been forming from former frontline soldiers...
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    right-wing Freikorps. Consequently, the German Reichswehrminister (defence minister) Gustav Noske ordered the dissolution of the Freikorps Marinebrigaden...
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    Albert Leo Schlageter (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    March 1919, he joined the Baden Freikorps and fought against the Bolsheviks as a part of Walter von Medem's Baltic Freikorps during the capture of Riga in...
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    thus it co-operated with the Supreme Command and the Freikorps. The brutal actions of the Freikorps during the various revolts estranged many left democrats...
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    Ludolf von Alvensleben (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    did not fight in World War I. He was briefly a member in a paramilitary Freikorps unit in 1920. Between 1923 and July 1929, he was a member of the nationalist...
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    20 km of most of the Western Ruhr area. It is served by the Düsseldorf Flughafen and Düsseldorf Flughafen Terminal railway stations, with its several parking...
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    Kurt Daluege (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    for his bravery. After the war, he became a member of Gerhard Roßbach's Freikorps. In 1922, Daluege joined the Nazi Party and soon entered the service of...
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    is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the ninth-largest city in Germany. With a population of 609,000 inhabitants...
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    the West German political parties. In 1951, Frauenfeld helped found the Freikorps Deutschland, a Neo-Nazi paramilitary. The organization managed to train...
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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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    Karl Ernst (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    Großdeutscher Jugendbund, a right wing youth association, and also the Freikorps “Eskadron Grunewald”. From 1920 to 1923 he was also a member of the Viking...
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    leadership of the military under General Wilhelm Groener and the right-wing Freikorps. With their help, Ebert's government[clarification needed] crushed a number...
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    in the 1932 presidential elections. A speech to the Industry Club in Düsseldorf on 27 January 1932 won him support from many of Germany's most powerful...
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    extremist German nationalist ("Völkisch nationalist"), racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against communist uprisings in post–World...
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    Liebknecht, the Communist Party of Germany leader who was assassinated by a Freikorps in January 1919. The stadium was opened on 10 July 1976 with a football...
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    and the German Revolution of 1918–1919. He sympathized with right-wing Freikorps paramilitary units. Chief of Police Ernst Pöhner introduced him to Adolf...
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    example, in 1899 as an initiator of the Goethe Festival in Düsseldorf, as a sponsor of the Düsseldorf Mendelssohn monument erected in 1901, as a member of the...
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    Otto Winkelmann (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    first and 2nd class. He remained in the army and became a member of the Freikorps. He fought in the Ruhr and in Silesia until November 1919. He was discharged...
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    the German Reichswehr with assistance from units of the paramilitary Freikorps. As a reaction to the incursion of German troops into the demilitarised...
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    Richard Glücks (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    joining the staff of the 6th Prussian Division. He also served in the Freikorps. Glücks joined the NSDAP in 1930 and two years later, the SS. From 6 September...
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  • Christoph Diehm (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    the Wound Badge in Silver. After the end of the war, Diehm joined the Freikorps from January 1919 for two years and was then a professional soldier in...
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    [Architect of world domination. The ultimate goals of Hitler] (in German). Düsseldorf: Droste. ISBN 978-3770004256. Zoller, Albert (1949). Hitler privat. Erlebnisbericht...
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    Wilhelm Albert (SS officer) (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    World War as a soldier. Later he participated in battles fought by the Freikorps. He trained as an electrical engineer and earned his Doktoringenieur....
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  • Walter Schuhmann (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    antennas and lightning rods. From 1920 to 1925 he was a member of the Freikorps Oberland. Schuhmann joined the Nazi Party (membership number 19,874) and...
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