Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Horst Wessel across 5 places, from 1907 to 1928.
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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).Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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9 October 1907exact date
Bielefeldattested“Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel was born on 9 October 1907 in Bielefeld, Westphalia, the son of Wilhelm Ludwig Georg Wessel (born 15 July 1879), a Lutheran minister in Bielefeld, and later in Mülheim an der Ruhr, then at the Nikolai Chur…”source: Wikipedia: Horst Wessel
9 October 1907exact date
Mülheimattested“Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel was born on 9 October 1907 in Bielefeld, Westphalia, the son of Wilhelm Ludwig Georg Wessel (born 15 July 1879), a Lutheran minister in Bielefeld, and later in Mülheim an der Ruhr, then at the Nikolai Chur…”source: Wikipedia: Horst Wessel
9 October 1907exact date
Nikolaikirche (Berlin)attested“Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel was born on 9 October 1907 in Bielefeld, Westphalia, the son of Wilhelm Ludwig Georg Wessel (born 15 July 1879), a Lutheran minister in Bielefeld, and later in Mülheim an der Ruhr, then at the Nikolai Chur…”source: Wikipedia: Horst Wessel
19 April 1926exact date
Humboldt University of Berlinattested“On 19 April 1926, Wessel enrolled in Friedrich Wilhelm University to study law.”source: Wikipedia: Horst Wessel
January 1928month
Viennaattested“In January 1928, a period in which the Berlin city authorities had banned the SA in an effort to curb political street violence, Wessel was sent to Vienna to study the National Socialist Youth Group, and the organizational and tactical m…”source: Wikipedia: Horst Wessel
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1905 to 1922period
Weimar Republicmentioned“His study of jurisprudence at school was seen through the filter of his belief that the application of the law was primarily an instrument of power; and his personal beliefs, already geared toward anti-Jewish attitudes, were further hard…”source: Wikipedia: Horst Wessel
1914 to 1922period
Berlinmentioned“Wessel attended four different schools in Berlin: firstly the Köllnische Gymnasium from 1914 to 1922, then briefly the ' and the Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster ("Protestant Grey Cloister Gymnasium").”source: Wikipedia: Horst Wessel
August 1927month
Nurembergmentioned“In August 1927, Wessel traveled in a group of fifty SA men to the Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, which he described as "Flags, enthusiasm, Hitler, all of Nuremberg a brown army camp.”source: Wikipedia: Horst Wessel
July 1928month
Berlinmentioned“In July 1928, he returned to Berlin to recruit local youths, and was involved in helping to implement a reorganization of the NSDAP in Berlin into a cell-structure, similar to that used by the German Communist Party (KPD).”source: Wikipedia: Horst Wessel
1929year
Berlinmentioned“By 1929–30, the continual violence in Berlin between the street fighters of the Nazi Party and other extreme right-wing groups, and those of the Communist Party and other parties on the left, had become a virtual civil war the Prussian p…”source: Wikipedia: Horst Wessel
1 March 1930exact date
Berlinmentioned“Wessel was buried in Berlin on 1 March 1930.”source: Wikipedia: Horst Wessel
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