According to Wikipedia it was because a pub owner was trying to evict him due to non-payment of his room and he wouldn’t move out. He was also a SA commander in charge of a several squads.
Edit guess I was a bit late confirming the wiki article but I will leave it here so people can read the only source I checked.
I’m no expert on the subject and I wasn’t able to find a clear account. Keep in mind a lot of effort went into spinning the story so the real facts might be long gone.
Honestly, it doesn’t really matter at the end of the day. His death wasn’t meaningful to the party he held allegiance to because he was important himself, just in how they could spin it so they could accumulate power.
why was he targeted and killed?
According to Wikipedia it was because a pub owner was trying to evict him due to non-payment of his room and he wouldn’t move out. He was also a SA commander in charge of a several squads.
Edit guess I was a bit late confirming the wiki article but I will leave it here so people can read the only source I checked.
I’m no expert on the subject and I wasn’t able to find a clear account. Keep in mind a lot of effort went into spinning the story so the real facts might be long gone.
I’ve read:
-It was a dispute over unpaid rent
-It was political between nazi’s and communists
-Wessel’s chick used to prostitute for his killer
Who knows, it could have been a bunch of things.
Honestly, it doesn’t really matter at the end of the day. His death wasn’t meaningful to the party he held allegiance to because he was important himself, just in how they could spin it so they could accumulate power.
it was meaningful, b/c Wessel was leading the party section in a red, proletarian neighboorhod in eastern Berlin.
This post made me realize that they portrayed him in the series Babylon Berlin, slyly renamed Horst Kessler.