One Hour of Freikorps Music

OK, so it’s not technically 1 Hour of purely Freikorps music, there are some songs written after the Freikorps about events that they took part in (Nachts steht Hunger) or related movements (Wandervogel Youth Movement which had volunteers on the East in 1919 as part of the Freikorps) As well as a few mentioning the Landsknecht, volunteer troops who fought across Europe. After 1918, the term “Freikorps“ referred to various —yet, still, loosely affiliated — paramilitary organizations that sprang up across Germany following the country’s defeat in World War I. Of the numerous Weimar paramilitary groups active during that time, the Freikorps were, and remain, the most notable. While exact numbers are difficult to determine, historians agree that some 500,000 men were formal Freikorps members with another 1.5 million men participating the social, political, and economic upheavals that marked the early years of the Weimar Republic, the tenuous German government under Friedrich Ebert, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD), utilized the Freikorps to quell socialist and communist uprisings.[9] Minister of Defence and SPD member Gustav Noske also relied on the Freikorps to suppress the German Revolution of 1918-19 as well as the Marxist Spartacist League, culminating in the summary execution of revolutionary communist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg on 15 January 1919. The Freikorps also took part in smashing the Bavarian Soviet as well as against communists and Bolsheviks in Eastern Europe, most notably East Prussia, Latvia, Silesia, and Poland. Many Freikorps members then went on to join the NSDAP - Gregor and Otto Strasser, Rudolf Hess, Ernst Rohm, Heydrich and others. Song List: 00:00 - Freikorps Voran! -- Freikorps Forward! 2:08 - Ein Landsknecht bin ich von Natur -- I am a Landsknecht by My Nature 3:51 - Wir traben ins rote Turnei -- We ride into the Red Tide 5:03 - So ziehn wir unter fremder Fahne -- So we fly under a foreign flag 7:06 - Lied der Freikorps Epp -- Song of the Freikorps Epp 7:48 - Durchs Gebirge -- Through the Mountains 11:35 - Des Kaisers letzte Erben -- The Kaiser’s Last Heirs 13:23 - Wanderjugend Gibor -- Wanderjugend of Gibor 15:40 - Weißgardisten vom Kuban -- White Guards of the Kuban 19:22 - Wandervögel Lied - Nach Osten zu Fahren -- Wandervögel Song - To Drive East 22:10 - Zu Ende ist das frohe Wandern -- Happy Wandering is Over 23:46 - Wenn den Marsch nach Osten Geht -- When the March goes East 26:30 - Die Grenzwacht hielt im Ostem -- The Borderguard stopped in the East 29:22 - Nach Nordland -- To Nordland 31:38 - Ritt am Morgen -- Morning Ride 33:58 - Nach Ostland zu Fahren -- To the East we Drive 36:46 - Für Deutschland Kamerad -- For Germany, Comrade! 39:07 - Nachts steht Hunger starr in unserm Traum -- At Night Hunger stands Rigid in Our Dreams 41:47 - Reiht euch ein ins Freikorps Epp -- Join the Freikorps Epp 44:13 - Marsch der Marine-Brigade Ehrhardt -- March of the Marine Brigade Erhardt 48:22 - Laßt weh’n die schwarze Fahne -- Let the Black Flag fly 50:54 - Feindwärts knattert die Fahne -- The flag is Waving Towards the Enemy 52:59 - Auf baltischer Wacht -- On Watch in the Baltic 57:40 - Der Tod in Flandern -- Death in Flanders