Horst Wessel
SA officer (1907-1930) · Germany · On the map · Politicians · Died at 22
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)
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After his death, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels elevated him into a martyr for the Nazi Party.
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Politicians
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Politician
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Lived 1907 to 1930 · aged 22
