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Freikorps (English: Free Corps) were German volunteer military or paramilitary units. The term was originally applied to voluntary armies formed in German lands from ...
Former members of the division were later also involved in the Free Corps battles in the Ruhr area (Ruhr uprising) and Upper Silesia (uprisings in Upper Silesia). The ideology of the Ride to the East and the anti-Bolshevism of the Free Corps was one of the roots of National Socialism. The former Baltic soldiers of the Freikorps were a ...
After the failed Kapp-Lütwitz Putsch in March 1920 that the Freikorps participated in, the Freikorps' autonomy and strength steadily declined as Hans von Seeckt, commander of the Reichswehr, removed all Freikorps members from the army and restricted the movements' access to future funding and equipment from the government. [25]
The Citizens' Defense groups were disbanded in 1920 and the Freikorps in 1921 because the government came to see them as threats and because of pressure from the Allies, who feared that the paramilitary groups were being used to circumvent the 100,000 man limit on the German Army imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.
After the end of the war, Böckenhauer remained in the military and became a member of the Freikorps between 1919 and 1920. He was accepted into the Reichswehr, attended the army technical school and served in the infantry regiments 17 and 6 between 1921 and July 1923 when he was discharged from military service. [1]
The United States Army Band, also known as "Pershing's Own", is the premier musical organization of the United States Army, founded in 1922.There are currently seven official performing ensembles in the unit: The U.S. Army Concert Band, The U.S. Army Ceremonial Band, The U.S. Army Chorus, The U.S. Army Blues, The U.S. Army Band Downrange, The U.S. Army Herald Trumpets, and The U.S. Army Strings.
Freikorps von Kleist. Seven Years' War. Mar 2016 version. Freikorps von Kleist. Accessed 11 Jan 2017; von Meerheimb, Ferdinand Freiherr . Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 16 (1882). pp. 124–127.
The BFC did not have a "commander" per se as it was the intention of the SS to appoint a British commander when a suitable British officer came forward. However, three German Waffen-SS officers acted as the Verbindungsoffizier ("liaison officer") between the SS-Hauptamt Amtsgruppe D/3, which was responsible for the unit and the British volunteers, and in practice they acted as the unit ...