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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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    Werner Heisenberg (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    mathematical language". In 1919 Heisenberg arrived in Munich as a member of the Freikorps to fight the Bavarian Soviet Republic established a year earlier. Five...
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    assassinations by and confrontations between right-wing groups such as the Freikorps (sometimes in collusion with the state), and left-wing organisations such...
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    Organisation Consul (category 20th-century Freikorps)
    Republic from 1920 to 1922. It was formed by members of the disbanded Freikorps group Marine Brigade Ehrhardt and was responsible for political assassinations...
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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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    Kurt Eggers (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    1921, he joined the Freikorps and was involved in the battle for Annaberg hill during the Silesian Uprisings, where German Freikorps personnel fought against...
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    Rudolf Höss (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    paramilitary groups, first the East Prussian Volunteer Corps, and then the Freikorps "Rossbach" in the Baltic area, Silesia and the Ruhr. Höss participated...
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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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    join the 21st Rifle Brigade (Schützenbrigade 21) of the paramilitary Freikorps under Franz Ritter von Epp. In early 1923, Himmler joined the Bund Reichskriegsflagge...
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    Wolfgang Kapp (category University of Göttingen alumni)
    the Georg-August University of Göttingen, where he became a member of the student organization Corps Hannovera Göttingen. In 1886, he completed his doctorate...
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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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    reached the Principality of Wolfenbüttel. In 1495, it was expanded around Göttingen. In 1584, it returned to the Wolfenbüttel Line. In 1634, as a result of...
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    clubs, serving as Freikorps without government accountability, led to the intervention of those veterans in politics. Nationalist Freikorps, but also far-left...
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    was disbanded and 30 of its members were summarily shot by members of a Freikorps unit. The People's Navy Division initially comprised about 600 men, rising...
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    German entrepreneurs organized and paid for the military operations of the Freikorps against the Berlin Spartacist Uprising and the contract killings of Rosa...
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    Immediately after the war he fought in the ranks of the Volunteer Corps (Freikorps) against Polish separatists in Silesia and participated in the Kapp Putsch...
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    Franz Heinrich Zitz (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    Dr. Franz Heinrich Zitz (November 18, 1803 in Mainz – April 30, 1877) was a prominent Mainz attorney and enjoyed much success with women due to his comeliness...
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    Papen took command of a Freikorps unit to protect Catholicism from the "Red marauders". Impressed with his leadership of his Freikorps unit, Papen was urged...
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  • Günther Merk (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    the Wound Badge in black. After the end of the war, he served in the Freikorps and was discharged from the army in 1920 with the rank of Hauptmann. He...
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    Hans Hinkel (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    Burschenschaft, a nationalist student association. In 1920 he joined the Freikorps Oberland and, on 4 October 1921, the Nazi Party (membership number 4,686)...
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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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  • Bürgerlichkeit. Die liberalkonservative Begründung der Bundesrepublik, Göttingen: Wallstein 2006/2008. See also Jerry Z. Muller, German Neo-Conservatism...
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    ISBN 3-7777-0843-7 (Originalausgabe: Verlag der Dietrich'schen Buchhandlung, Göttingen 1853-1857, online near Google Books) Hans Patze (Begr.): Geschichte Niedersachsen...
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  • the law was enforced more strictly. The Weimar Republic saw various Freikorps and paramilitary forces like the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, Der Stahlhelm...
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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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    declined an appointment as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen, saying he needed time to focus on writing.[citation needed] The book...
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  • Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin) Served in World War I and Postwar in Freikorps, and a Gauleiter; tried, convicted and executed 5 November 1948 in Landsberg...
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  • totalitarianism from the left: German discourses in the 20th century] (in German). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 255. ISBN 978-3-525-36910-4. OCLC 169002787...
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    enlist in the newly founded Freikorps, paramilitary organizations thought to protect democracy. As open battles between Freikorps members and communist activists...
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  • Walther Bierkamp (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    committed suicide. Born in Hamburg, Bierkamp joined that city's far-right Freikorps Bahrenfeld and the following year he participated in the Kapp Putsch,...
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