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 (1787–1792)
  • Patriot militias, called Free Corps, in Austrian Netherlands

Prussia

Post World War I

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 (1941–1943), Danish volunteer free corps created by the Danish Nazi Party (DNSAP)
  • Freikorps Sauerland

Other

  • Exercitiegenootschap, military organisation in the 18th century Netherlands
  • Schutterij, a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands
  • Munckska kåren, was a Swedish secret paramilitary group
  • Volunteer unit “Freikorps” [uk], a volunteer Ukrainian unit in the War in the Donbas and Russo-Ukrainian war

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.