List of Free Corps

This is a list of "Free Corps" (German: Freikorps), various military and/or paramilitary units raised from the civilian population.

Habsburg Monarchy

Freikorps, pre-1754 German units
Serbian Free Corps (1787–92)
Patriot militias, called Free Corps, in Austrian Netherlands

Prussia

Freiwilliges Feldjäger-Korps von Schmidt (1813–14), a volunteer Riflemen Corps that formed in late 1813
Lützow Free Corps (1813–14), a voluntary force of the Prussian army during the Napoleonic Wars

World War II

British Free Corps (BFC; German: Britisches Freikorps), in the Waffen-SS World War II
Sudetendeutsches Freikorps, was a paramilitary fifth-columnist organisation formed by Czech German nationalists with Nazi sympathies
Free Corps Denmark (1941–43), Danish volunteer free corps created by the Danish Nazi Party (DNSAP)

Other

Exercitiegenootschap, military organisation in the 18th century Netherlands
Schutterij, a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands

Fictional

In Shannara series of novels written by Terry Brooks, the Free Corps is a unit of the Border Legion of Callahorn and was led by Stee Jans; it appeared in The Elfstones of Shannara, helping to defend the Ellcrys against the Demons.

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