Horst Wessel
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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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![Wessel in his Sturmführer uniform leading an SA unit at a Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, 1929[19]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Bundesarchiv_Bild_147-0503%2C_N%C3%BCrnberg%2C_Horst_Wessel_mit_SA-Sturm.jpg/500px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_147-0503%2C_N%C3%BCrnberg%2C_Horst_Wessel_mit_SA-Sturm.jpg)
![Mug shots of Albrecht Höhler, the man arrested and later killed for Wessel's murder, wearing the new suit given to him by the Communist Party[48]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Albrecht_H%C3%B6hler_police_photo%2C_1929.jpg/1280px-Albrecht_H%C3%B6hler_police_photo%2C_1929.jpg)
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About this person
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). After his death, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels elevated him into a martyr for the Nazi Party.
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Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1907 to 1930 · aged 22
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