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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horst Wessel has received more than 1,265,198 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Horst Wessel is the 66th most popular social activist (down from 50th in 2019), the 537th most popular biography from Germany (down from 452nd in 2019) and the 7th 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 66 out of 538. Before him are Anneliese Michel, Widukind, Angela Davis, Lê Đức Thọ, Jane Addams, and Mustafa Barzani. After him are Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bhagat Singh, Kasturba Gandhi, Jimmy Hoffa, Beatrice Cenci, and Gabrielle d'Estrées.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Horst Wessel ranks 25. Before him are John Bowlby, Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Whittle, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Hans Selye, and Hideki Yukawa. After him are Fred Zinnemann, Bhagat Singh, François Duvalier, Sister Lúcia, Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, and Maurice Blanchot. Among people deceased in 1930, Horst Wessel ranks 18. Before him are Victoria of Baden, Fritz Pregl, D. H. Lawrence, Joan Gamper, Alfred von Tirpitz, and Lon Chaney. After him are Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Arthur Balfour, Siegfried Wagner, Ahmad Shah Qajar, Sakichi Toyoda, and Wilfrid Voynich.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Horst Wessel ranks 537 out of 6,142. Before him are Henning von Tresckow (1901), Hans Spemann (1869), Hasso von Manteuffel (1897), Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor (1075), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), and Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg (1655). After him are Peter Simon Pallas (1741), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Ananda Mahidol (1925), Hans Baldung (1484), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), and Albert the Bear (1100).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Horst Wessel ranks 7. Before him are Claus von Stauffenberg (1907), Thomas Müntzer (1489), Martin Niemöller (1892), Sophie Scholl (1921), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), and Anneliese Michel (1952). After him are Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Paul Schäfer (1921), Hans Scholl (1918), Alfred Naujocks (1911), Sophia of Prussia (1870), and Gerda Christian (1913).

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