Freikorps soldiers

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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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Freikorps 2
Freikorps units 1

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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

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Spartacist uprising hasOpponent Freikorps soldiers
this entity surface form: Freikorps
Rosa Luxemburg killedBy Freikorps soldiers
Freikorps soldiers partOf Freikorps soldiers self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Freikorps
Kapp Putsch participant Freikorps soldiers
this entity surface form: Freikorps units