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    units: Hessen-Hanauisches Regiment Erbprinz 1776 Hessen-Hanauisches Jägerkorps Creutzburg 1777 Hessen-Hanauische Artillerie-Kompanie Pausch 1777 Hessen-Hanauisches...
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  • forces. 18 April: Freikorps suppress communists in Brunswick. 27 April: Battle for Munich occurs between Communists and Freikorps units. 2 May: City...
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    Georg Pausch. Hessen-Hanauisches Jägerkorps, 1777; Lieutenant-colonel Karl Adolf Christoph von Creutzburg. Hessen-Hanauisches Freikorps, 1781; Lieutenant-colonel...
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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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    World War I uniforms with full medals. Also common were uniforms of the Freikorps as well as uniforms of veteran groups such as Der Stahlhelm. Nazi Party...
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  • Helmuth Friedrichs (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    and held as a prisoner of war until the end of 1919. Serving with the Freikorps and the army, he joined with Karl Dincklage, later a Sturmabteilung (SA)...
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    Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    Pyrmont. Petropoulos, Jonathan (2006). Royals and the Reich: The Princes Von Hessen in Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-516133-5. Hackett, David...
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    Stephen (2009). Prussian Infantry 1808-1840: Volume 2 Jager, Reserve, Freikorps and New Regiments. Partizan Press. ISBN 978-1-85818-584-2. Walter, Dierk...
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    1920 Kapp Putsch, Seeckt refused to deploy the Reichswehr against the Freikorps involved in the putsch but immediately afterwards had the Ruhr Red Army...
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    Richard Hildebrandt (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    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...
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    attempted coup on 13 March 1920 by parts of the Reichswehr (military), the Freikorps and other conservative, nationalist and monarchist factions. They aimed...
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  • Karl Linder (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    company and in Infantry Regiment 81. After the war, Linder joined the Freikorps and fought in the Spartacist uprising in early 1919. He then took courses...
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    Mahony Jägers, one battalion of the O'Donnell Freikorps, 1/3 battalion of the Branovaczky (Serb) Freikorps and one squadron of the Esterhazy Hussar Regiment...
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    Martin Niemöller (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    Bataillon der Akademischen Wehr Münster" belonging to the paramilitary Freikorps. Niemöller was ordained on 29 June 1924. Subsequently, the united Evangelical...
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    (Mittler) 1939 (Darstellungen aus den Nachkriegskämpfen deutscher Truppen und Freikorps, Vol. 5). Gewerkschaft der Polizei. Landesbezirk Baden-Württemberg (publ...
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  • and forces of the Council of the People's Deputies, with support from Freikorps units, breaks out in Berlin and is defeated. 15 January: Rosa Luxemburg...
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    real Prince of Homburg at the Battle of Fehrbellin in 1675, Friedrich von Hessen-Homburg (1633–1708), but beyond the name and place there is little if any...
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  • 1918 to early February 1919 was posted on leave. He initially joined the Freikorps until the end of May 1919 and was then again posted on leave. On 10 September...
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    After violent suppression by elements of the German Army and notably the Freikorps, the Bavarian Soviet Republic fell in May 1919. The Bamberg Constitution...
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    Rolf Carls (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    he commanded until the end of the war. After the war, Carls joined the freikorps division Marine-Brigade von Loewenfeld, serving as a company commander...
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    diverse set of paramilitary and underground political groups such as the Freikorps, the Organisation Consul, and the Communists. The Empire was a federal...
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  • ISBN 0-275-95485-4. Petropoulos, Jonathan (2006). Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516133-5. Read,...
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    Callenberg Nr. 54 Infantry Regiments and one company of the O'Donnell Freikorps. The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel units consisted of two battalions each...
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    promotion to Oberst-Leutnant and commanded a battalion of the Gyulay Freikorps. He led this unit in the storm of Cetin Castle on 20 July 1790. In 1793...
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    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...
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    "Großherzogliche Orden und Ehrenzeichen", Staatshandbuch für das Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein (in German), Darmstadt: Im Verlag der Invalidenanstalt, 1879...
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    Nauendorf Major General Maximilian, Count of Merveldt Major General Merveldt Freikorps (independent corps) Wurmser (12 companies) 1st Hussars Kaiser (8 squadrons)...
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    Sicarii Sich Battalion Silver Shirts Sturmabteilung Sudetendeutsches Freikorps Terror Against Terror Third Klan Ukrainian Insurgent Army Ukrainian People's...
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  • nephew of theologian Adolf von Harnack. In 1919 he became a member of the Freikorps, a volunteer militia. From 1919 to 1923 he studied law at the Friedrich...
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  • After violent suppression by elements of the German Army and notably the Freikorps, the Bavarian Socialist Republic fell on 3 May 1919. The Bamberg Constitution...
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