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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