German Portrait Print/Litho of Horst Wessel by K.J.Böhringer

In a very good condition and extreme rare to find a print of the charcoal drawing made by K.J. Böhringer of Horst Wessel.
The print comes in a size of 37x53cm and is uncut. The paper contains the pressing for a framework.

Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel (9 October 1907 – 23 February 1930) was a German Sturmführer ("Assault Leader", the lowest commissioned officer rank) in the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. After his murder in 1930, he was made into a martyr for the Nazi Party by Joseph Goebbels.

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. He rose to command several SA squads and districts. On 14 January 1930, he was shot in the head by two members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Albrecht "Ali" Höhler was arrested and charged with his murder. Höhler was initially sentenced to six years in prison, but was forcibly taken out of jail and killed by the SA after the Nazis came to power.

This rare litho comes directly from the famous publishing house 'Franz Hanfstaengl' from Munich were it was discovered last year.

Franz Hanfstaengl was one of the intimate followers of Adolf Hitler.
Hanfstaengl and Hitler remained close through the 1920s and early 1930s.
He considered Hitler a diamond in the rough, lacking refinement and social skills. He took it upon himself to do the polishing. Introducing Hitler to Munich’s high society, he helped finance the publication of Mein Kampf and, dollar rich in inflation-hit Germany, bankrolled the NSDAP’s newspaper Völkischer Beobachter.

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