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- Wessel Jacobus Wessels (27 April 1865 – 19 January 1945) was a Boer general during the Anglo Boer War (1899–1902).
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Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel (9 October 1907 – 23 February 1930) was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, who became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murder in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
Apr 15, 2024 · Nazi Party. Horst Wessel (born Sept. 9, 1907, Bielefeld, Ger.—died Feb. 23, 1930, Berlin) was a martyr of the German Nazi movement, celebrated in the song “Horst Wessel Lied,” which was adopted as an anthem by Nazi Germany. A student and low-life bohemian, Wessel joined the Nazi Party in 1926 and became a member of the SA (Storm Troopers).
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On January 14, 1930, a small group of Communists fatally shot Wessel. The group may have been motivated by personal as well as political reasons. Wessel died on February 23. Nazi propaganda mythologized details of Wessel’s death and turned him into the party’s most famous martyr.
Wessels Name Meaning. Dutch and North German: patronymic from the personal name Wessel 1. This surname is also established in South Africa. History: One of the most prominent fur traders in New Netherland (now NY) in the 1660s was Dirck Wessels (e) (1637–1717), who probably came to New Netherland before 1650 with his father, Wessel Wesselse ...
Wessel Jacobus Wessels (27 April 1865 – 19 January 1945) was a Boer general during the Anglo Boer War (1899–1902). [1] [2] He was one of the eleven children of Hermanus Nicolaas ("Bont Hermaans") Wessels ( Grahamstown , 8 October 1822 – Harrismith, 18 February 1886) and Johanna Wilhelmina Elizabeth Catharina Wessels (birth place unknown ...
Weasels / ˈwiːzəlz / are mammals of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae. The genus Mustela includes the least weasels, polecats, stoats, ferrets, and European mink. Members of this genus are small, active predators, with long and slender bodies and short legs.
Horst Wessel was born October 9, 1907, in Bielefeld, Germany. The son of a pastor, Wessel dropped out of law school in 1926 and defied his mother by joining the Nazi Brownshirt paramilitary in the final days of the Weimar Republic. He soon caught the attention of Joseph Goebbels, who sent him to Vienna in 1928 to organize the Nazi youth ...
