Wilhelm Roettig - member of Freikorps?

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Wilhelm Roettig - member of Freikorps?

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Post by PF » 09 Jul 2014, 20:50

SS-General Wilhelm Roettig, KIA SEPTMEBER 1939

Member of Freikorps?
Last edited by Dieter Zinke on 10 Jul 2014, 10:59, edited 2 times in total.
Reason: His name is [Georg Friedrich] Wilhelm Roettig - not Wilheilm Fritz von Roettig

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Re: Wilhelm Roettig - member of Freikorps?

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Post by Dieter Zinke » 10 Jul 2014, 10:57

SS-Brigadeführer (07.11.1944 posthum with effect from 21.06.1939)
and Generalmajor der Polizei Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Roettig, KIA 10.09.1939 Opoczow near Tomaszow
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00.01.1919 Führer einer Freiwilligenkompanie der Einwohnerwehr Magdeburg


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Post by PF » 10 Jul 2014, 13:10

thanks :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

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Post by George_W » 10 Jul 2014, 14:03

Dieter Zinke wrote:SS-Brigadeführer (07.11.1944 posthum with effect from 21.06.1939)
and Generalmajor der Polizei Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Roettig, KIA 10.09.1939 Opoczow near Tomaszow
was
00.01.1919 Führer einer Freiwilligenkompanie der Einwohnerwehr Magdeburg
Hello Dieter,

Small correction: not Opoczow but Opoczno :)

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George

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Re: Wilhelm Roettig - member of Freikorps?

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Post by JoeW » 10 Jul 2014, 17:29

An Einwohnerwehr unit cannot be considered a Freikorps unit, can it? They were strictly an ad hoc urban defense force wearing an armband or such, but no military organization.

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Post by Dieter Zinke » 10 Jul 2014, 18:17

George, thank you very much for the wonderful return pass :)

Joe, you are right, the Einwohnerwehr is not a Freikorps in the true sense !


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