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).

2025年2月19日 · Horst Wessel 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 …

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 …

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.

2016年6月10日 · Horst Wessel may not be the first name that springs to mind when studying the Nazi Party, but he is without doubt one of the most influential members of the NSDAP. A member of German National People’s Party (DNVP) youth group from the age of 15, he would happily brawl regularly with members of the SPD (Social Democratic Party) and the KPD ...

in a mine accident, Goebbels delivered Wessel from a banal death in questionable circumstances to an ennoblement as a warrior hero, a prince among the Party's immortals. Horst Wessel became the source of myth and legend, celebrated in poetry and song, biography and film, Party ritual and indoc-trination.

Horst Wessel, a national hero in the new Germany, was the son of a North German pastor, a chaplain during the War. This man, whose name-song is the national anthem now, was always fond of playing soldiers, of handling daggers and revolvers; his intelligence was definitely below normal, and he never could find his way into a civil profession.

Horst Ludwig Wessel (October 9, 1907 – February 23, 1930) was a German Nazi Party activist and an SA-Sturmführer who was made a posthumous hero of the Nazi movement following his violent death in 1930.

Horst Wessel was a prominent figure in early Nazi Germany, known for his fervent nationalism and involvement in the party's youth movements.

Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel (9 October 1907-23 February 1930) was a member of the SA, of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party from 1926-1930 . In 1930, he was killed by a communist. As he had written the Horst Wessel-Lied, the party made him into a martyr and hero .