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    Member of the Freikorps and Nazi Party. Wilhelm Ehrlich, bank clerk and World War I veteran, born 8 August 1894. Member of the Freikorps and Nazi Party...
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    government had Munich occupied by Reichswehr troops and paramilitary Freikorps units, Hoffmann and his cabinet were able to return in May 1919. However...
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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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    buried in the cemetery, along with several high-ranking members of the Freikorps. The body of Manfred von Richthofen (the 'Red Baron') was transferred...
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  • Africa colony, was purchased in 1921 by Gerhard Roßbach for use by his Freikorps paramilitary unit. They were later used for his Schill Youth organization...
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    the November Revolution of 1918, Hierl became head of a paramilitary Freikorps unit. Hierl played a role in organizing the Black Reichswehr paramilitary...
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  • September 1938 Adolf Hitler ordered the establishment of Sudetendeutsches Freikorps, a paramilitary organization that took over the structure of Ordnersgruppe...
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    Centre Party around Georg Heim founded the Bavarian People's Party in Regensburg on 12 November 1918 as the Bavarian party of political Catholicism. Two...
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  • Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten 1918-1933 1932 Iron Front's Anti-Nazi Demonstration Flag 1928-1933 Rural People's Movement 1919-1921 Freikorps Roßbach...
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    the extent that most of the fighting against the Red Army was done by Freikorps units and other German troops from outside Bavaria. During World War I...
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  • center of administration for this area was Castra Regina (modern-day Regensburg). During the 5th century, the Romans in Noricum and Raetia, south of the...
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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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    Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (category Freikorps personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
    took up his name, the most well known of these is probably the SSV Jahn Regensburg.[citation needed] Gymnastics classes inspired by Jahn's turnplatz design...
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  • Oskar von Niedermayer (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    the Universities of Munich and Berlin. Oskar Niedermayer came from a Regensburg official and merchant family. On 15 July 1905 he joined the 10th Bavarian...
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    named to the nobility as a Freiherr in December 1788. In 1789 he raised a freikorps, which soon reached a strength of 3,000 men in 12 companies of infantry...
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  • Heinrich Tillessen (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    escaped to Hungary. In Budapest, they assumed new identities, and joined a Freikorps supported by Miklós Horthy's national army, whose protection they had...
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    Hugo Sperrle (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    awarded the House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords. Sperrle joined the Freikorps and commanded an aviation detachment. He then joined the Reichswehr. Sperrle...
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    early years of the Weimar Republic, and it was led by the paramilitary Freikorps. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1920), a forgery which claimed that...
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    as residential building and as quarters for the civil police and the Freikorps Thüringen, a civilian militia army unit. During the rearmament of the...
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  • Elhard von Morozowicz (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    immediate post-war period under the Weimar Republic, Morozowicz belonged to a Freikorps unit. Also in 1919, he joined Der Stahlhelm, the association of German...
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    (Training-Specialist) in Regensburg (01 Apr 1931-01 Oct 1933); Border-Regiment-Commander Regensburg (01 Oct 1933-1 May 1935) Ausbildungsleiter Regensburg (1 May 1935-06...
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    Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (category Freikorps personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
    Eichendorff-Forum. Prof. Dr. Ursula Regener Universität Regensburg Institut für Germanistik, D-93040 Regensburg Eichendorff-Literaturpreis German Romanticism "Joseph...
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  • Heinrich Reiner (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    the 4th Engineer Battalion in Ingolstadt. In March 1919, he joined the Freikorps commanded by Franz Ritter von Epp, where he acted as a recruiting officer...
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    with the Treaty of Versailles. This included the dissolution of many Freikorps – units made up of volunteers. In an attempt at a coup d'état in March...
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  • fighting of it. However, in February 1919 he found himself taken into the Freikorps ("volunteer corps") of Adolf von Oven in Berlin, and he was involved in...
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    Hans Jeschonnek (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    member of the Reichswehr's 6th Cavalry Regiment. Jeschonnek joined the Freikorps aerial detachments, Grenzschutz Fliegerabteilungen (GFA) and flew in the...
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    II. It was named after Albert Leo Schlageter, a World War I veteran, Freikorps member, and posthumous Nazi martyr, arrested and executed by the French...
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    Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor, his sister Sophia was given a seat at Regensburg. From c.1150 until his death in 1167, Welf VI's son, Welf VII, was associated...
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    could make the ten-minute walk to the mausoleum of the members of the Freikorps who had fallen there in 1921 at the Battle of Annaberg and to the Thingspiel...
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  • Friedrich Weber (general) (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    Merit Order IV class with swords for his services. In 1919 Weber joined Freikorps Epp, commanded by Franz Ritter von Epp, and containing personalities such...
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