right-wing Freikorps. Consequently, the German Reichswehrminister (defence minister) Gustav Noske ordered the dissolution of the Freikorps Marinebrigaden...

the adjutant to the commander of the Wesel fortress, and from then to March 1920 he served in the Freikorps "Wesel". He was discharged from the military...

between Ferdinand von Schill's freikorps and Napoleonic forces in Stralsund. In a "vicious street battle", the freikorps was defeated and Schill was killed...

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...

Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Herne, Hagen, Dortmund, Hamm and the districts of Wesel, Recklinghausen, Unna and Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. The most populous cities are...

brother that led Heinrich to join the extreme right-wing Freikorps in 1919. In the Freikorps he served under Ernst Röhm and was thus led into the Nazi...

of the Second World War in Europe. Luyken, a merchant's son, was born in Wesel in 1885 and attended Volksschule and Gymnasium there and in Moers. In February...

was commissioned as a subaltern into the 57th Infantry Regiment, then at Wesel. Over the next eight years, he was promoted to lieutenant and saw further...

Rulsem, decides not to cease his activities, he is executed. 1541 – In Wesel, printing is introduced. Two years later, it was being practised in Dortmund...

Essen became one of the centres of resistance to Social Democracy and the Freikorps alike. During the Nazi era (1933–1945), mayors were installed by the Nazi...