• following groups under it: Potsdam Freikorps with 1,200 veterans remnants of the Guards Rifle Cavalry Division Reinhard Freikorps commanded by Colonel Wilhelm...
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  • Freikorps, then removed almost all of its members from the Reichswehr and limited Freikorps access to government funding and equipment. The Freikorps'...
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    Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    After the war, he was a member of the right-wing Freikorps, seeing service with both the Freikorps Lutzow and Roßbach in 1919 and 1920. From 1920 to...
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    Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion (category 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam)
    Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion is a football stadium in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany. It is the home stadium of 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam and SV Babelsberg 03. The stadium has...
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    Rüdiger von der Goltz (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    of the demoralised German soldiers were being withdrawn from Latvia, a Freikorps unit called the "Iron Division" (German: Eiserne Division) was formed...
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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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    plebiscite took place among severe ethnic tensions, as German authorities and Freikorps clashed and persecuted the local Polish population, and the Poles organised...
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    constituted with an opening ceremony at the Garrison Church in Potsdam. This "Day of Potsdam" was held to demonstrate unity between the Nazi movement and...
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    Fritz Lindemann (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    suppression of the German Revolution of 1918–1919 as a member of the Freikorps. However, as a member of the Reichswehr and a loyalist to the Weimar Republic...
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    Walther Wenck (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    military school in Gross-Lichterfeld. Wenck joined a paramilitary group (Freikorps) in 1919 and then the Army (Reichswehr) of the Weimar Republic in 1920...
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    population however was not reached until 2 August 1945 at the end of the Potsdam Conference. In the months following the end of the war, "wild" expulsions...
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    Eleonore Prochaska (category Military personnel from Potsdam)
    Marie Christiane Eleonore Prochaska (11 March 1785, in Potsdam – 5 October 1813, in Dannenberg) was a German female soldier who fought in the Prussian...
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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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  • Eidinger as Alfred Nyssen, a steel manufacturer with links to Reichswehr and Freikorps officers plotting to overthrow the Republic and restore Kaiser Wilhelm...
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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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    Ferdinand von Schill (category Freikorps personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
    and Saxony during the Seven Years' War. J.-G. von Schill had raised a "Freikorps", a small raiding party of cavalry and mounted infantry, operating behind...
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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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    Battle of Annaberg (category 20th-century Freikorps)
    Several independent paramilitary Freikorps units were formed from the remnants of the German Imperial Army. The German Freikorps units often did not obey orders...
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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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    Siegfried Kasche (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    Strausberg. After attending cadet school in Potsdam and the Lichterfelde military academy, he spent 1919-20 in the Freikorps in Berlin and the Baltic states. He...
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    between Ferdinand von Schill's freikorps and Napoleonic forces in Stralsund. In a "vicious street battle", the freikorps was defeated and Schill was killed...
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    Sudetoněmecký Freikorps v roce 1938 (1st ed.), Prague: Epocha, Pražská vydavatelská společnost, p. 11 Zayas, Alfred M. De (1 January 1979). Nemesis at Potsdam: The...
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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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    expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. It was based on the international Potsdam Agreement. As a result, almost all ethnic Germans and Hungarians some of...
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    Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    prisoner. He returned to Germany after the war in 1918. He joined the Freikorps and fought against the Spartacist uprising of the German Revolution in...
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  • Schimmelpfenning at Rinnthal. He also brought the Karlsruhe volunteers (Freikorps) under Dreher with him and Friedrich Engels was also part of Willich's...
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  • the death of five protesters and injured nineteen. A month later the Freikorps revolted,[clarification needed] and Silesia was one of several eastern...
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    senior forestry official. He attended the Gymnasium secondary school in Potsdam and studied jurisprudence at the universities of Tübingen, Breslau, Leipzig...
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    engagement was also an important episode in the rise of the right-wing Freikorps on which the government increasingly relied. On 11 November 1918, the...
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    state". To crush the left-wing rebels, Schleicher helped to found the Freikorps in early January 1919. Schleicher's role for the rest of the Weimar Republic...
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