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    dissolution of the German Empire, Epp was a commanding officer in the Freikorps and the Reichswehr. His unit, the Freikorps Epp, was responsible for numerous...
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    largest Freikorps in Bavaria commanded by Colonel Franz Ritter von Epp. While they were met with little Communist resistance, the Freikorps nonetheless...
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    In May 1919 the Freikorps Oberland fought against the Bavarian Soviet Republic. Elements of the Freikorps, combined with Freikorps Epp became the Reichswehr...
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    Wilhelm Stuckart (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    upbringing. Stuckart was active in the far right early on and joined the Freikorps von Epp in 1919 to resist the French occupation of the Ruhr. In 1922, he started...
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    other Freikorps awards were declared obsolete with World War I service thereafter recognized by a single award, known as the Honour Cross. Freikorps awards...
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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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  • lieutenant on April 6, 1918. In 1919, he was briefly a member of the Epp Freikorps before joining the regular Reichswehr. In the Second World War, Kirchensittenbach...
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  • Weimar Republic. This is a partial list of the post-World War I Freikorps members. Hugo von Abercron, German aviation pioneer Wilhelm Albert, SS General...
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  • Albert Krebs (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    the Gildenschaft (a Studentenverbindung umbrella group) and in the Freikorps von Epp and Oberland in 1919. In 1922, he received his doctorate and, in the...
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  • Hermann Höfle (SS general) (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    "Großherzog Friedrich II. von Baden"; later he served as an observation pilot. After the war he was with the Freikorps von Epp and the Bund Reichskriegsflagge...
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    the Soviet Government. Active participants in the Freikorps units – those of Oven, Franz Ritter von Epp, and Hermann Erhardt – that suppressed the Bavarian...
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    Gregor Strasser (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    After the war, he and his brother became members of Franz Ritter von Epp's Freikorps. He joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in 1920 and quickly became an influential...
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  • Otto Herzog (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    From 1 May to 30 September 1919, Herzog was part of the Freikorps led by Franz Ritter von Epp, and was involved in the suppression of the Bavarian Soviet...
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    Ernst Röhm (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    captain in the Reichswehr and provided assistance to Franz Ritter von Epp's Freikorps. In 1919, Röhm joined the German Workers' Party, the precursor of...
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    organization, Der Stahlhelm. From April to June 1919, he served with the Freikorps Epp, a right-wing paramilitary unit that took part in the suppression of...
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    Capitalism” by the communists), with a force of 9,000, and Freikorps (such as the Freikorps Epp and the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt) with a force of about 30...
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    Eduard Dietl (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    Socialist German Workers Party, and the paramilitary group Freikorps of Franz Ritter von Epp in 1919. Dietl continued to serve in the German Army and,...
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    same day, Reich Interior Minister Wilhem Frick named General Franz Ritter von Epp as Reichsstatthalter (Reich governor) of Bavaria, and Minister President...
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    21st Rifle Brigade (Schützenbrigade 21) of the paramilitary Freikorps under Franz Ritter von Epp. In early 1923, Himmler joined the Bund Reichskriegsflagge...
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    Hans Baur (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    victories on 29 October 1918. After the war, he joined the Freikorps under Franz von Epp. He went on to become a courier flier for the Bavarian airmail...
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  • April 1919, he was appointed Director of the Publicity Department of Freikorps Epp, the Munich City Council's Republican Force. On 12 December 1919 Niedermayer...
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    Otto Deßloch (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    needed] After the German defeat, he joined the right-wing Freikorps forces of Franz von Epp, fighting against the Bavarian Soviet Republic. From 1921...
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    Gerhard Wagner (physician) (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    medical practice in Munich, while also being a member of two Freikorps between 1921 and 1923, von Epp and Oberland. Just because of his Upper Silesian origins...
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    August Schmidhuber (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    May 1919 to mid-June, he also entered the ranks of the Freikorps, Major Franz Ritter von Epp. Schmidhuber then transferred to Gebirgs-Jäger-Regiment...
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    Walter Schultze (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    the First World War. Thereafter he served in the Freikorps under the command of Franz Ritter von Epp. Schultze had been involved in the Nazi Party since...
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    have often referred to the case of Franz Xaver Ritter von Epp, a former colonial officer, Freikorps leader, and subsequent director of the Third Reich's...
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    Josef Albert Meisinger (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    Vizefeldwebel (senior sergeant), and on 19 April 1919 he entered the Freikorps under Franz Ritter von Epp, with whom he fought against the Soviet Republic of Bavaria...
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    Ritter von Epp. Bomhard would later write and publish the history of his regiment. Bomhard was sent to Kyiv in November 1942 to succeed Otto von Oelhafen [de]...
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    Joseph Friedrich Abert (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    served as a lieutenant in World War I. As a member of the Freikorps "Franz Xaver Ritter von Epp" he was involved in the suppression of the Bavarian Soviet...
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    Democrat Union, and the European People's Party (EPP). It is the largest party in the EPP with 23 MEPs. Ursula von der Leyen, the current President of the European...
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