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Horst Wessel

1907 - 1930

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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, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels elevated 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 original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. He rose to command several SA squads and districts. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Horst Wessel is the 73rd most popular social activist (up from 74th in 2019), the 614th most popular biography from Germany (down from 577th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Social Activist.

Horst Wessel was a Nazi who was killed by Communists in 1930. He is most famous for being a Nazi who was killed by Communists.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Horst Wessel ranks 73 out of 840. Before him are Alexey Stakhanov, Jody Williams, Mustafa Barzani, José Rizal, Emilia Plater, and Yun Chi-ho. After him are Babak Khorramdin, Gunnar Sønsteby, Camilo Cienfuegos, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Anneliese Michel, and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Horst Wessel ranks 32. Before him are Daniel Bovet, Robert A. Heinlein, Sister Lúcia, François Duvalier, Lin Biao, and Fred Zinnemann. After him are John Bowlby, U Nu, Giovanna of Italy, Daphne du Maurier, Jacques Tati, and Maurice Blanchot. Among people deceased in 1930, Horst Wessel ranks 21. Before him are Frank P. Ramsey, Miguel Primo de Rivera, Cosima Wagner, Wilfrid Voynich, Victoria of Baden, and Alfred von Tirpitz. After him are Arthur Balfour, Siegfried Wagner, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Ahmad Shah Qajar, Sakichi Toyoda, and Adolf von Harnack.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Horst Wessel ranks 614 out of 7,253. Before him are Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), Robert Ritter von Greim (1892), Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (1892), Katherine Oppenheimer (1910), Erich Hoepner (1886), and Emile Berliner (1851). After him are Paul Breitner (1951), Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1908), Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710), Feodor Lynen (1911), Hans von Seeckt (1866), and Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Horst Wessel ranks 6. Before him are Claus von Stauffenberg (1907), Sophia of Prussia (1870), Thomas Müntzer (1489), Sophie Scholl (1921), and Carl von Ossietzky (1889). After him are Anneliese Michel (1952), Martin Niemöller (1892), Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Widukind (755), Hans Scholl (1918), and Marianne Bachmeier (1950).

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