Awards of the German Freikorps information

Awards of the German Freikorps were unofficial military awards displayed by various veteran organizations in Germany during the immediate aftermath of...

Freikorps (German: [ˈfʁaɪˌkoːɐ̯], "Free Corps" or "Volunteer Corps") were irregular German and other European military volunteer units, or paramilitary...

The Sudetendeutsches Freikorps (SFK) (Sudeten German Free Corps, also known as the Freikorps Sudetenland, Freikorps Henlein and Sudetendeutsche Legion)...

The German Legion of Honor was declared obsolete, along with all other awards of the German Freikorps, in 1933 by the new government of Nazi Germany. Recipients...

The Silesian Eagle (German language: Schlesischer Adler) was a medal awarded to members of the German right-wing paramilitary group Freikorps Oberland...

Sudeten German and Carpathian German Party (Sudetendeutsche und Karpatendeutsche Partei) in November 1935. With the rising power of Nazi Party in Germany, the...

the Hep-Hep riots took place throughout Germany. During this time, many German states stripped Jews of their civil rights. As a result, many German Jews...

April: Freikorps suppress communists in Brunswick. 27 April: Battle for Munich occurs between Communists and Freikorps units. 2 May: City of Munich taken;...

sending in the Freikorps, government-sponsored paramilitary groups consisting mostly of battle-hardened World War I veterans of the Imperial German Army. Freikorps...

The Bug Star, more formally known as the Bug Star of the Schutztruppe Bug was a paramilitary award of the German Freikorps which was issued in the 1920s...

Member of the Freikorps, Nazi Party, and Sturmabteilung. Wilhelm Wolf, businessman and World War I veteran, born 19 October 1898. Member of the Freikorps and...

After the end of World War I and the dissolution of the German Empire, Epp was a commanding officer in the Freikorps and the Reichswehr. His unit, the Freikorps...

Upper Silesia. He participated in the suppression of the German Revolution of 1918–19 with the Freikorps in multiple German cities in 1920 and 1921. Later...

Führer of the Munich Ortsgruppe, the local Freikorps Roßbach group. In December 1922, Heines became Member #78 of the National Socialist German Workers'...

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, is a term used to describe the German state between 1933 and 1945...

German rearmament (Aufrüstung, German pronunciation: [ˈaʊ̯fˌʀʏstʊŋ]) was a policy and practice of rearmament carried out by Germany from 1918 to 1939...

into Freikorps. After the suppression of the soviet republic at the beginning of May, during which about 335 civilians were killed by Freikorps fighters...

a German novelist and screenwriter. He was a Weimar-era national-revolutionary activist and right-wing Freikorps member. He was born in Kiel, in the Prussian...

to honour their German state social benefits, such as the old age pensions. However, many German Army veterans joined the Freikorps (Free Corps), a paramilitary...

Hitler's Heralds: The Story of the Freikorps, 1918–1923. New York: Dorset Press, 1992. Jones, Sydney. Hitler in Vienna, 1907-1913: Clues to the Future. New...

but the Soviet Republic was put down on May 3, 1919 by the Freikorps. On 3 May 1919, loyal elements of the German army (called the “White Guards of Capitalism”...

served as the executive officer on a capital ship, hence often translated as commander Freikorps – volunteer corps (see Freiwillige). The Freikorps was an...

July 1962) was a German military officer, policeman, and leader of a Freikorps militia unit named after him. Caspari was the son of Albrecht Caspari (1845–1927)...

into the German Legion, and assumed leadership after its leader, Paul Siewert, was murdered. After returning to Germany, he was active in Freikorps operations...

seeing action at the Battle of Verdun where he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class. After the war, he joined the Freikorps, and then the new Reichswehr...

Freikorps and fought in the Latvian War of Independence. Upon return in 1920, Berthold refused to disarm and together with his Freikorps joined the Kapp...