Editing Luxembourg Armed Forces (section)

=== Gendarmes and Volunteers Corps ===
[[File:LuxKorps1910.jpg|thumb|Soldiers of the {{lang|fr|Corps des Gendarmes et Volontaires}} pose for a photograph, 1910]]
On 16 February 1881, the {{lang|fr|Corps des Gendarmes et Volontaires}} (Corps of Gendarmes and Volunteers) was established. It was composed of two companies, a [[Grand Ducal Gendarmerie (Luxembourg)|company of gendarmes]] and one of volunteers. In 1939, a corps of auxiliary volunteers was established and attached to the company of volunteers. Following the occupation of Luxembourg by Germany in May 1940, recruitment for the company of volunteers continued until 4 December 1940, when they were moved to [[Weimar]], Germany, to be trained as German police.<ref name="LuArmyGendarmes">{{cite web |title=Le Corps des Gendarmes et Volontaires (1881-1944) |trans-title=The Corps of Gendarmes and Volunteers (1881-1944) |url=http://www.armee.lu/historique/le-corps-des-gendarmes-et-volontaires-1881-1944 |date=2017 |website=Lëtzebuerger Arméi |publisher=Armée luxembourgeoise |language=fr |access-date=11 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105233008/http://www.armee.lu/historique/le-corps-des-gendarmes-et-volontaires-1881-1944 |archive-date=5 January 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref> Gérald Arboit. The Gendarmerie of Luxembourg. Jonas Campion; Laurent López; Guillaume Payen. European Police Forces and Law Enforcement in the First World War, Springer International Pub- lishing, pp.141 - 155, 2019, 9783030261016. 10.1007/978-3-030-26102-3_10 . hal-04090652></ref>

In November 1918 Luxembourg faced [[Luxembourg rebellions|two small communist rebellions]] in [[Luxembourg City]] and [[Esch-sur-Alzette]]. Both were quickly suppressed by police.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Luxembourg's history : Mutiny in the Grand Duchy |url=https://today.rtl.lu/luxembourg-insider/history/a/1690130.html |access-date=2023-09-01 |website=today.rtl.lu |language=en}}</ref> In December 1918 a group of soldiers attempted a mutiny in the Luxembourg City barracks.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Muller |title=Tatsachen aus der Geschichte des Luxenburger Landes |year=1968}}</ref>

On 9 January 1919, a group of socialist and liberal deputies, tabled a motion to make Luxembourg a republic. A crowd gathered at the barracks of the [[Corps of Volunteers]], close to the Chamber. Then [[Émile Servais]], a left-wing politician, walked out the Chamber, addressed the crowd and demanded a republic. The crowd then rushed the Chamber and the deputies called in the Corps of Volunteers but the soldiers refused the orders to disperse the crowd. Part of the deputies then fled the Chamber. The remaining deputies, mainly left-wing, formed the [[Committee of Public Safety (Luxembourg)|Committee of Public Safety]] with Servais as its leader. The committee had no public support and the [[French Army]] under the command of General de La Tour soon quelled the turmoil. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Luxembourg's history : Mutiny in the Grand Duchy |url=https://today.rtl.lu/luxembourg-insider/history/a/1690130.html |access-date=2023-09-01 |website=today.rtl.lu |language=en}}</ref>