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    in November 1918, he became active in the Freikorps. He formed and led the Westphalian “Freikorps von Pfeffer” in the Baltic states, the Ruhr and Upper...
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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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  • platoon leader in the company of Captain von Mauritz, behind whom in reality the Freikorps leader Franz Pfeffer von Salomon was hiding. As an inconvenient...
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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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  • 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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  • Rathenau François Salomon, founder of Salomon Group Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (1888–1968), ex-Freikorps member, leader of the SA (1926–1930) Frederick Salomon...
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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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    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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    Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski Franz von Papen Joachim von Ribbentrop Franz Pfeffer von Salomon Werner von Fritsch Baldur von Schirach...
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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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    Otto Wagener (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    the Sturmabteilung (SA), having been recruited by his old Freikorps comrade Franz Pfeffer von Salomon. Wagener was able to put his business acumen and...
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    seats in the Reichstag which was something the head of the SA, Franz von Pfeffer, had pushed for at a meeting in early August. Stennes also wanted more...
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    Karl Kaufmann (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    leadership of their youth group in Elberfeld. In 1921 as a member of the Freikorps "von Killinger," he participated in actions against Polish insurgents in...
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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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  • Jumava. p. 364. ISBN 9984-38-038-6. OCLC 70240317. SS Obergruppenfuhrer von Pfeffer-Wildenbrauch of the 6th Army Corps May 10th, 1945 (From the Soviet Information...
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    and a Freikorps leader as well as an arms racketeer. He was OSAF Stellvertreter Ost (Deputy Supreme SA Leader East) in the SA and one of Pfeffer's seven...
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    Nuremberg Military Tribunal and hanged for crimes against humanity. Franz Pfeffer von Salomon – Supreme SA Leader from its re-founding in 1925 until removed...
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    for chancellor. Former chancellor Franz von Papen and other conservative leaders convinced President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as chancellor...
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    Viktor Lutze (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    Party) in 1922, and the SA in 1923. He became an associate of Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, the first leader of the SA. Together, they determined the structure...
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    SS as its motto. More significantly, Hitler cashiered SA head Franz Pfeffer von Salomon and assumed the position of Oberste SA-Führer personally, and...
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    attendance at Wessel's funeral were Goebbels, who delivered the eulogy, Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, Hermann Göring, and Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia. Prior...
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  • 177 999". www.dws-xip.pl. Kerstin Freudiger, Die juristische Aufarbeitung von NS-Verbrechen, Mohr Siebeck, 2002, p. 203 Albanese, David (2015). In search...
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    Erwin Jaenecke (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland...
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    too sickening even for the German military whose commander General Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch ordered his troops not to take part in the killings. On the...
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    Gottlob Berger (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    Berger played a key role in directing the fifth column Sudetendeutsches Freikorps during the Sudeten Crisis in Czechoslovakia in 1938, and the organisational...
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