Karl Höfer (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
Karl Höfer also Hoefer; (29 December 1862 in Pleß – 12 May 1939 in Würzburg) was a German general. During World War I he became known as the Held vom Kemmelberge...
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Ernst von Salomon (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
screenwriter. He was a Weimar-era national-revolutionary activist and right-wing Freikorps member. He was born in Kiel, in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein...
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Oskar Dirlewanger (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
contempt for the laws and rules of civil society. In 1919, he joined various Freikorps paramilitary militias and fought against German communists in Thuringia...
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its cooperation with the Supreme Army Command and the Freikorps. The brutal actions of the Freikorps during the various revolts estranged many left democrats...
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Otto Strasser (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
twice wounded. He returned to Germany in 1919, where he served in the Freikorps that in May 1919 put down the Bavarian Soviet Republic, which was organized...
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Joseph Friedrich Abert (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
(11 June 1879 – 25 October 1959, Würzburg) was a German historian and archivist. Abert was born in 1879 in Würzburg. His uncle was the Roman Catholic...
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him the services of 20,000 men of the Freikorps under Lt. General Burghard von Oven [de]. Oven and the Freikorps, along with Hoffmann's loyalist elements...
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almost two years before the Bavarian capital of Munich was retaken by Freikorps units (see Bavarian Soviet Republic). The first republican constitution...
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Werner Heyde (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
of Würzburg. Additionally, he also worked as a psychiatric consultant for the Gestapo. He also was leader of the Rassenpolitisches Amt in Würzburg, Seelbergstraße...
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Against the Islamisation of the West Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten Freikorps German Fatherland Party German National People's Party German Socialist...
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served in this unit until 1788 when he became a Captain in a Serbian Freikorps. Two years later he became a Major on the general staff and in 1791 returned...
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Munich 2nd Division in Augsburg II Army Corps in Würzburg 3rd Division in Landau 4th Division in Würzburg III Army Corps in Nuremberg 5th Division in Nuremberg...
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Karl Astel (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
and also the Beer Hall Putsch, as a member of the Freikorps Oberland. Astel studied medicine in Würzburg and earned his PhD around 1930. He was educated...
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him the services of 20,000 men of the Freikorps under Lt. General Burghard von Oven [de]. Oven and the Freikorps then took Dachau and surrounded Munich...
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23rd a similar proclamation was issued by the Berlin government. The Freikorps unit Landjägerkorps of Major General Maercker entered Leipzig on 11 May...
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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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Adam Grünewald (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
the nationalist propaganda prevalent at the time Grünewald joined the Freikorps before signing on with the army for a 12-year stint. Leaving the army...
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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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Council of the People's Deputies, called on the army and the paramilitary Freikorps to suppress the uprisings, and there was considerable loss of life. The...
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Rudolf Criegee (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
semesters and passed his first examination. He moved to the University of Würzburg and received his PhD in December 1925 at Otto Dimroth with a thesis on...
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Max Simon (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class. At the end of the war he joined the Freikorps in Silesia and fought against the Polish forces. His unit was later incorporated...
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Albert Krebs (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
in the Gildenschaft (a Studentenverbindung umbrella group) and in the Freikorps von Epp and Oberland in 1919. In 1922, he received his doctorate and,...
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On 4 February 1919, a combination of regular army troops and irregular Freikorps occupied the city, breaking a disorganised resistance and putting an end...
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Reich army that had assembled around Berlin, along with newly formed Freikorps units, put down the uprising on the orders of Gustav Noske (MSPD), the...
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they included the losses of the Schill freikorps) as follows: Höpfner further reports that Schill's freikorps lost a total of 682 infantry, 40 artillerists...
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transformation; a change as noted by the Gestapo in conservative towns such as Würzburg, where people acquiesced to the regime either through accommodation, collaboration...
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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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army. In October 1791, he was given command of a brigade composed of the Freikorps (volunteers) "Degelmann" and 37th Dragoon Regiment in Flanders. On 1 February...
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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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Friedrich Paulus (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
Germany's involvement in World War I, Paulus was a brigade adjutant with the Freikorps. He was chosen as one of only 4,000 officers to serve in the Reichswehr...
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