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
- Freiwilliges Feldjäger-Korps von Schmidt (1813–14), a volunteer riflemen corps that formed in late 1813
 - Lützow Free Corps (1813–14), a voluntary force of the Prussian Army during the Napoleonic Wars
 
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)
 
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
 
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.
 
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