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Horst Wessel. 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). After his death Joseph Goebbels turned him into ...
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 ...
SA Member Horst Wessel Dies. Horst Wessel was a member of the Nazi paramilitary group known as the SA. During the years of the Weimar Republic, extremist political parties in Germany frequently engaged in violence. Wessel and his group of SA men in Berlin often fought with local Communists. On January 14, 1930, a small group of Communists ...
The Horst Wessel Song (German, Horst Wessel-Lied) was the anthem of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) and for a time, the co-anthem of Germany under Nazi rule. The tune is likely traditional but the lyrics were written by Horst Wessel, a law student turned street brawler and political radical who joined the Sturmabteilung ...
Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel 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).
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Oct 25, 2013 · Siemens begins his analysis with an account of the murder itself. Even today, historians cannot describe definitively what happened on 14 January 1930, when the Communist Ali Höhler shot SA man Horst Wessel in the latter’s apartment in Berlin’s Friedrichshain district. Following the crime, the Communists and the Nazis each propagated their ...
