Freikorps Oberland
The Freikorps Oberland (also Bund Oberland or Kameradschaft Freikorps und Bund Oberland) was a free corps in the early years of the Weimar Republic, fighting against Communist and Polish insurgents. It was successful in the 1921 Battle of Annaberg and became the core of the Sturmabteilung (SA) in Bavaria while several members later turned against the Nazis.
Members
- Karl Astel
- Eleonore Baur, SS-Oberführer in KZ Dachau
- Albert Ritter von Beckh, SS-Gruppenführer
- Kurt Benson, SS-Oberführer
- Josef Dietrich, SS-Oberstgruppenführer and Generaloberst der Waffen-SS
- Fritz Fischer, Historian, SA- and NSDAP-member
- Karl Gebhardt, SS-Gruppenführer, physician in Ravensbrück concentration camp
- Franz Gutsmiedl, Reichstag delegate
- Wilhelm Harster, SS-Brigadeführer
- Franz Hayler, SS-Gruppenführer
- Richard Hildebrandt, SS-Obergruppenführer
- Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer SS and Chef of German Police
- Hans Hinkel, SS-Gruppenführe, Reichstag delegate
- Ernst Horadam, SA-Obersturmbannführer
- Max Humps, SS-Oberführer
- Friedrich Gustav Jaeger, Officer and resistance leader in 20 July plot
- Rudolf Jordan, SA-Obergruppenführer, Gauleiter of Magdeburg
- Gerhard Krüger, student leader
- Max Lebsche, physician, opponent of the Nazi regime
- Emil Maurice, SS-Standartenführer
- Carl von Oberkamp, SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Waffen-SS
- Ludwig Oestreicher
- Maximilian du Prel, Baron, Nazi author and press chief of the General Government in occupied Poland
- Heinz Reinefart, SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS
- Arthur Rödl, SS-Obersturmbannführer and commandant of Gross-Rosen concentration camp
- Josef Römer, Jurist, staff officer and resistance member
- Arnold Ruge
- Ludwig Schmuck, SA-Gruppenführer
- Fritz von Scholz, SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS
- Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, Austrofascist politician, opponent of the Nazi regime
- Bodo Uhse, writer, Nazi supporter but later a communist
- Hilmar Wäckerle, SS-Standartenführer and commandant of Dachau concentration camp
- Friedrich Weber, head of veterinary surgery in Germany
Literature
Zum Freikorps und Bund Oberland
- Hans Fenske: Konservativismus und Rechtsradikalismus in Bayern nach 1918. Verlag Gehlen,1969
- Kameradschaft Freikorps und Bund Oberland: Bildchronik zur Geschichte des Freikorps und Bundes Oberland. München 1974
- Peter Schuster: Für das stolze Edelweiß, Brienna, Achau, 1995. ISBN 3980387518
Zur Kameradschaft Freikorps und Bund Oberland
- Oliver Schröm, Andrea Röpke: Stille Hilfe für braune Kameraden. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 386153231X
- Andreas Angerstorf: Rechte Strukturen in Bayern 2005, Bayernforum, ISBN 3-89892-416-5
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