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, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horst Wessel has received more than 1,362,407 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Horst Wessel is the 73rd most popular social activist (down from 66th in 2019), the 577th most popular biography from Germany (down from 537th 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 73 out of 840. Before him are Beatrice Cenci, Bhagat Singh, Jenny von Westphalen, Buenaventura Durruti, Dominique Pire, and Aleksandr Ulyanov. After him are Sakamoto Ryōma, Widukind, Gerald Durrell, Axel Munthe, Rashid ad-Din Sinan, and Dragutin Dimitrijević.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Horst Wessel ranks 27. Before him are Robert A. Heinlein, Lars Ahlfors, Yang Shangkun, Bhagat Singh, Fred Zinnemann, and John Bowlby. After him are Nikolaas Tinbergen, Sister Lúcia, François Duvalier, Daniel Bovet, Daphne du Maurier, and Otto Ohlendorf. Among people deceased in 1930, Horst Wessel ranks 18. Before him are Miguel Primo de Rivera, Victoria of Baden, Cosima Wagner, Arthur Balfour, Alfred von Tirpitz, and D. H. Lawrence. After him are Ahmad Shah Qajar, Siegfried Wagner, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Sakichi Toyoda, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, and Adolf von Harnack.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Horst Wessel ranks 577 out of 7,253. Before him are Cunigunde of Luxembourg (978), Adam Opel (1837), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Elisabeth of Wied (1843), Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1817), and Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (1792). After him are Otto Rehhagel (1938), Friedrich List (1789), Dietrich Eckart (1868), Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811), Bert Hellinger (1925), and Walter Scheel (1919).

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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), Sophie Scholl (1921), Martin Niemöller (1892), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), and Jenny von Westphalen (1814). After him are Widukind (755), Anneliese Michel (1952), Hans Scholl (1918), Sophia of Prussia (1870), Alfred Naujocks (1911), and Marianne Bachmeier (1950).

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