Blood poisoning contracted during treatment for a gunshot wound[1]
Occupation(s)
Nazi streetfighter Procurer of prostitutes
Organization
Sturmabteilung (SA)
Political party
Nazi Party (1926–30)
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 a martyr for the Nazi Party.
Wessel first joined a number of youth groups and extreme right-wing paramilitary groups, but later resigned from them and joined the SA, the brownshirted street-fighting stormtroopers of the Nazi Party. He rose to command several SA squads and districts. On 14 January 1930, he was shot in the head by two Communists. Albrecht "Ali" Höhler was arrested and charged with his murder. Höhler was initially sentenced to six years in prison but was forcibly taken out of jail and killed by the SA after the Nazis came to power.
Wessel's funeral was given wide attention in Berlin, with many of the Nazi elite in attendance. After his death, he became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany. A march for which he had written the lyrics was renamed the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" ("Horst Wessel Song"), and became the official anthem of the Nazi Party. After Adolf Hitler came to national power in 1933, the song became the co-national anthem of Germany, along with the first verse of the previous "Deutschlandlied", also known as "Deutschland über alles".
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,...
Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division "HorstWessel" (German: 18. SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier-Division "HorstWessel") was formed in 1944 around a cadre...
the Nazi era, only the first stanza was used, followed by the SA song "Horst-Wessel-Lied". In modern Germany, the public singing or performing of songs identified...
border with Prenzlauer Berg. In the Nazi era, the borough was called Horst-Wessel-Stadt. Friedrichshain is one of the trendy districts of Berlin and has...
commanded the SS Division Götz von Berlichingen and the SS Division HorstWessel. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak...
years under USCG commission, and 5 during her 10 years of commission as HorstWessel under the Kriegsmarine. Many of Eagle's past commanders have gone on...
de facto anthem of the SA until it was gradually supplanted by the "Horst-Wessel-Lied". The lyrics for this Nazi song were written by National Socialist...
to local SA troop leader HorstWessel being shot by two members of the KPD. He later died in hospital. Exploiting Wessel's death, Goebbels turned him...
Professor Werner is bullied by a gang for not singing along with the "HorstWessel Song." Martin interferes and the bullies allow Werner to leave. Fritz...
the Nazi era, only the first stanza was used, followed by the SA song "Horst-Wessel-Lied". It was played at occasions of great national significance, such...
Reichsinnenminister Wilhelm Frick, the Interior Minister, ordered that the Horst-Wessel-Lied be played right after the standing national anthem Das Lied der...
Sturmbrigade were attached to the 18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division HorstWessel and sent to Galicia on the Eastern Front. In heavy fighting against the...
the sole national flag in September 1935. The Party anthem "Horst-Wessel-Lied" ("HorstWessel Song") became a second national anthem. Germany was still...
photographer Heinz Klingenberg (1905–1959), actor HorstWessel (1907–1930), SA leader, author of the Horst-Wessel-Song Hermann Paul Müller (1909–1975), racing...
of the Nazi martyr HorstWessel. Originally, the film, based on Hanns Heinz Ewers's novelistic biography, was named HorstWessel. Goebbels temporarily...
(Jagdgeschwader 6 HorstWessel) given SA honour titles, and even a Waffen-SS division (18. SS Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division HorstWessel). On 26 September...
of a new film on the life of HorstWessel. The reader is correctly informed that already in 1933 a film on HorstWessel had been made, but out of "suspicions...
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