Aizsargi
Sign in to saveAizsargi (; officially – , or LAO) was a volunteer paramilitary organization, militia with some characteristics of a military reserve force in Latvia during the interbellum period (1918–1939).
Key facts
- Military unit.unit_name
- AizsargiLatvijas Aizsargu organizācija
- Military unit.image
- File:Aizsargi 1939 moto.png
- Military unit.caption
- Aizsargu motorcyclists during a 20-year anniversary in 1939.
- Military unit.dates
- 1919–1940
- Military unit.country
- Latvia
- Military unit.type
- Infantry
- Military unit.size
- 60,684 (1940)
- Military unit.motto
- Visu par Latviju (Everything for Latvia)
- Military unit.battles
- Latvian War of Independence1934 Latvian coup d'état
- Military unit.notable_commanders
- Ludvigs BolšteinsAugusts TonsKārlis Prauls
- Military unit.identification_symbol
- 150px
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- organization
- Country
- Latvia
- Motto
- Everything for Latvia
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- inception
- 1919-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1940-00-00
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Aizsargi (; officially – , or LAO) was a volunteer paramilitary organization, militia with some characteristics of a military reserve force in Latvia during the interbellum period (1918–1939).
The Aizsargi was created on March 30, 1919, by the Latvian Provisional Government as a self-defense force - a kind of National Guard - during the Latvian War of Independence. In 1921, it was reorganized to follow the example of the Finnish Suojeluskunta (known as the "White Guard").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aizsargi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.