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...

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...

and SS. Arent was born Benno Georg Eduard Wilhelm Joachim von Arent in Görlitz on 19 July 1898, the son of a Prussian Lieutenant Colonel also named Benno...

military school in Gross-Lichterfeld. Wenck joined a paramilitary group (Freikorps) in 1919 and then the Army (Reichswehr) of the Weimar Republic in 1920...

of the German Resistance. After the war, he joined the Grenzschutz Ost Freikorps as a General Staff officer, serving in Silesia and Pomerania. In 1919...

Volunteers of the Sudeten German Free Corps (German: Sudetendeutsches Freikorps) receiving refreshments from the local population in the city of Eger/Cheb)...

as the old age pensions. However, many German Army veterans joined the Freikorps (Free Corps), a paramilitary organization whose troops fought any pro-Polish...

a key catchphrase for the German right wing. On 12 March 1920, 5,000 Freikorps troops under the command of Walther von Lüttwitz marched on the Chancellery...

Reinhart Koselleck Born (1923-04-23)23 April 1923 Görlitz, Lower Silesia, Germany Died 3 February 2006(2006-02-03) (aged 82) Bad Oeynhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia...

Versailles. A dispute with the leader of the local right-wing paramilitary Freikorps led to the issuance of an arrest warrant for his alleged involvement in...

the Nazi Party in August 1922 in Windsheim. In May 1923, he joined the Freikorps Oberland militia and, in June, the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Party's paramilitary...

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...

: Genealogisches Handbuch der Baltischen Ritterschaften. Band Livland, Görlitz 1929, S. 416ff. Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven: Freytag von Loringhoven...

the Weimar Republic and played a part in organizing the paramilitary Freikorps units on the Polish border. In 1924, Keitel was transferred to the Ministry...

executions. An execution of three Poles was carried out by the German Freikorps already on September 3, 1939. A unit of the Einsatzgruppe I was stationed...

workers and large landowners, who received support from regional army and Freikorps units. Agriculture Minister Otto Braun pushed through an emergency decree...

via Narva, Riga and Königsberg to Bad Muskau, a small town located near Görlitz. Cooper was awarded the Wound Badge in Silver, becoming the only Englishman...

von Arent Born 19 July 1898 in Görlitz, Prussia. His uncle was Benno von Arent (Generalleutnant). Member of the Freikorps. Joined the Nazi Party in 1932...

but the Polish insurrectionists clashed with German "volunteers," the Freikorps. A feature of the plebiscite campaign was the growing prominence of a...

against their civil enemies. Instead the Army supported the independent Freikorps (modeled on formations used in the Napoleonic wars), supplying them with...

the poor of Hamburg. Colonel Hans Jauch (1883–1965), Commander of the Freikorps "Jauch", took part in putting down communist uprisings in 1920 and is...

economy as a whole, Scheidemann's government responded in part by deploying Freikorps units but also by negotiating. In response to a general strike in central...

plebiscite took place among severe ethnic tensions, as German authorities and Freikorps clashed and persecuted the local Polish population, and the Poles organised...

typically had a black top half for their pompom. Order of the Rue Crown Freikorps Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sächsische Armee. For the unsuccessful...

throughout Germany in early 1919 with the use of the extreme right wing Freikorps, a decision that has remained the source of much controversy amongst historians...

15 January: Socialists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht killed by Freikorps. February: Dadaist Jedermann sein eigner Fussball published. 3–16 March:...