Freikorps - Notable Freikorps Units

Notable Freikorps Units

  • Freikorps Oberland
    • Kurt Benson
  • Volunteer Division of Horse Guards (Garde-Kavallerie-Schützendivision)
    • murdered Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, Jan 15, 1919
    • led by Captain Pabst
    • disbanded on order of Defense Minister Gustav Noske, Jul 7, 1919, after Pabst threatened to kill him
  • Freikorps Maercker (Maercker's Volunteer Rifles, or Freiwillige Landesjägerkorps)
    • had Reinhard Heydrich as a member
    • founded by Ludwig Maercker
  • Freikorps Roßbach (Rossbach)
    • founded by Gerhard Roßbach
    • rescued the Iron Division after an extremely long march across Eastern Europe.
    • had Rudolph Hoess as a member.
  • Marinebrigade Ehrhardt (The Second Naval Brigade)
    • participated in the Kapp Putsch of 1920
    • disbanded members eventually formed the Organisation Consul, which performed hundreds of political assassinations
  • Iron Division (Eiserne Division, related to Eiserne Brigade)
    • Fought in the Baltic.
    • Got trapped in Thorensberg by the Latvian Army. Was rescued by the Rossbach Freikorps.
  • Freikorps Lützow
    • Occupied Munich following the revolution of April, 1919.
    • Commanded by Major Schulz
  • Sudetendeutsches Freikorps
    • Formed by Czech German nationalists with Nazi sympathies which operated from 1938 to 1939
    • Part of Hitler's successful effort to absorb Czechoslovakia into the Third Reich

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