List of Freikorps Awards

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After the end of the monarchy in Germany with the end of the First World War in November 1918, a number of voluntary corps emerged . The medals and decorations listed below have been donated for members of these units.

State recognized awards

  • Baltic Cross

  • Silesian eagle

Awards not recognized by the state

  • German Order Shield in Memory of the Border Guard East (1919)
  • Probation badge of the 5th Army Corps (1919)
  • Green leash with the Westphalian horse (1919)
  • Commemorative badge of the Aulock Freikorps
  • Commemorative Medal of the Russian Western Volunteer Army (1919)
  • Bergerhoff Self-Protection Battalion:
    • Probation Badge (1921)
    • Upper Silesian Cross of Merit (1921)
  • 5th German Self-Protection Company Bytom-North:
    • Bytom Cross of Honor (1921)
  • Bow Star (1919)
  • German Legion commemorative mark (1920)
  • Probation Medal of the German Protection Division (31st Infantry Division)
  • Von Diebitsch Free Corps (1919):
    • Diebitsch Cross
    • Star of Malplaquet
    • Ladies buckle of the Diebitsch cross
    • Medal for good horse care
  • Iron Division Medal (1920)
  • Probation badge of the Heydebreck Self-Protection Battalion
  • Probation badge of the Freischar Hindenburg
  • Kreuzburg cross
  • Probation badge of the Volunteer Detachment Kühme
  • Voluntary State Hunters Corps (1920):
    • Loyalty badge
    • Medal for good athletic performance
    • Medal for good horse care
  • Voluntary state rifle corps
    • Loyalty cross of the 1st Guards Landesschützen-Abt. (1920)
  • Probation badge of the Lautenbacher volunteer group (1933)
  • Lublinitz Cross of the Lublinitz Self-Protection Battalion
  • Honorary commemorative badge of the Lützow Freikorps
  • Merit badge of the II Marine Brigade Ehrhardt (1920)
  • Loewenfeld Cross I and II Class (1920)
  • Commemorative sign of the Upper Silesian Volunteer Battalion May (1921)
  • Commemorative and Honorary Badges of the War Hospital Section North (1919)
  • Freikorps Oberland:
    • Oberland Probation Badge (1921)
    • Annaberg Cross (1930)
    • Commemorative coin for Upper Silesia (1926)
    • Eagle
    • Memorial cross for 1919
  • Probation badge of the Westphalian Freikorps Pfeffer
    • Green Rifle Cord (1919)
  • Pitschen Cross of the Krose Freikorps (1921)
  • Teutonic Cross of the Detachement von Randow (1919)
  • Commemorative sign of the time volunteer corps Remscheid (1922)
  • Rossbach Cross of the Freikorps Rossbach (1921)
  • Medal of the Soldiers' Settlement Association of Courland (1919)
  • Weickhmann Order of the Weickhmann Freikorps (1920)
  • Commemorative or honorary badge of the Hessen Department - Wolf Self-Protection Battalion (1921)
  • Schlageter Shield of the Schlageter-Gedächtnis-Bund eV (1933)
  • Plaque of Honor of the City of Würzburg (1934)

literature

  • Kurt-Gerhard Klietmann : German Awards. Volume 2: German Empire: 1871–1945. The Order Collection, Berlin 1971.