Freikorps soldiers

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World War I veterans paramilitary personnel right-wing militants

Freikorps soldiers were members of right-wing German paramilitary units composed largely of World War I veterans, notorious for violently suppressing leftist uprisings during the Weimar Republic.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Freikorps	7
Freikorps units	4
Freikorps (as political overseer)	1
Freikorps soldiers canonical	1
Heimwehr (right-wing paramilitary)	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War I veterans ⓘ paramilitary personnel ⓘ right-wing militants ⓘ
activeIn	Weimar Republic ⓘ post-World War I Germany ⓘ
associatedWith	Kapp Putsch ⓘ early German far-right movements ⓘ political assassinations in Weimar Germany ⓘ
commandStructure	led by former Imperial German officers ⓘ
composedMostlyOf	World War I veterans ⓘ
composedOf	demobilized German soldiers ⓘ former Imperial German Army officers ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Germany ⓘ
demobilization	largely dissolved by mid-1920s ⓘ
engagedIn	border conflicts in Eastern Europe ⓘ counter-revolutionary operations ⓘ urban combat ⓘ
genderComposition	overwhelmingly male ⓘ
historicalReputation	controversial ⓘ
ideology	anti-communism ⓘ monarchism ⓘ right-wing nationalism ⓘ
influenced	early Nazi paramilitary culture ⓘ
language	German ⓘ
legalStatus	semi-official units tolerated by parts of the Weimar government ⓘ
notableFor	political violence ⓘ street fighting in early Weimar Republic ⓘ suppressing leftist uprisings ⓘ
opposed	Bavarian Soviet Republic ⓘ Spartacist uprising ⓘ left-wing workers’ councils ⓘ
organizedAs	irregular military units ⓘ
partOf	Freikorps soldiers self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Freikorps
perceivedByOpponentsAs	reactionary and brutal ⓘ
perceivedBySupportersAs	defenders of Germany against Bolshevism ⓘ
recruitedFrom	disaffected veterans ⓘ nationalist youth ⓘ
status	non-state combatants ⓘ volunteer fighters ⓘ
supported	conservative forces in Weimar Germany ⓘ restoration of order after World War I (from their perspective) ⓘ
timePeriod	1918–1923 ⓘ interwar period ⓘ
usedWeapon	artillery ⓘ machine guns ⓘ small arms ⓘ
wore	military uniforms ⓘ