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    of German-Austria established a military known as the Volkswehr ("People's Defence"). Volkswehr forces took part in military confrontations with Royal...
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    continued until 1920 for the purpose of re-equipping of first the Austrian Volkswehr and later the regular Austrian army (Bundesheer), and also for reparation...
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    "Charte Waldeck" which included an expanded list of fundamental rights, a Volkswehr ('people's guard') responsible to parliament and restrictions on feudal...
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    and a mob secured his release. He then became a member of the Badische Volkswehr and an adjutant of Gustav von Struve and fought in the ill-fated Reichverfassungskämpfe...
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    discipline; and the standing army was to be replaced by a people's army (Volkswehr). The Army Command strongly objected to the Hamburg Points, and no trace...
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    commanding field units, and later was briefly the commander-in-chief of the Volkswehr ("People's Defense") of the new postwar rump state of Austria. Adolf von...
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  • and, after the end of the war, he remained in military service with the Volkswehr. Following the reorganisation of the military after the establishment...
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    pan-Germanism and antisemitism. He became the secretary of the Deutschen Volkswehr (German militia) in Iglau the following year. In 1910, he was made editor...
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  • of World War I, he joined the Volkswehr, then the Gendarmerie as well as the Bundesheer, the successor of the Volkswehr after 1920. His last military...
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    to sergeant major in 1916. From 1918 to 1920 he was conductor of the "Volkswehr battalion no. 6" in Vienna. From 1920 to 1924 he was conductor of the...
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