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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 ...
British Free Corps (BFC; German: Britisches Freikorps), in the Waffen-SS World War II; Sudetendeutsches Freikorps, was a paramilitary fifth-columnist organisation formed by Czech German nationalists with Nazi sympathies; Free Corps Denmark (1941–1943), Danish volunteer free corps created by the Danish Nazi Party (DNSAP) Freikorps Sauerland
Recruiting poster for the Freikorps Lützow: "Who will save the Fatherland? That is Lützow's wild, daring pursuit. German men! Soldiers of all weapons! Join our ranks!" Weimar paramilitary groups were militarily organized units that were formed outside of the regular German Army following the defeat of the German Empire in World War I.
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]
On 1 March 1931, he also became a member of the paramilitary Sturmabteilung (SA). Ernst Röhm, his old comrade from the Bavarian infantry had been appointed the SA- Stabschef in January 1931. Röhm chose Hörauf and several other old comrades from his Bavarian Army days for key assignments in staffing the SA leadership, in large part because he ...
The Lützower Freikorps consisted of volunteers from all over Germany, appealing to the idea of a unified Germany. It fought successfully during the Liberation War in 1813-1814, and was afterwards incorporated into the Prussian army. The regiments formed from the Korps also fought at Waterloo.
It is estimated that between 1918 and 1923 some 500,000 men were formal Freikorps members with another 1.5 million participating informally. In the turbulent early days of the Weimar Republic, the government in Berlin accepted the Freikorps as necessary and used them to defeat the Spartacist uprising in January 1919 and put down several local ...