Not an assassination, but a false flag operation to demonise left wing activists so the fascists could claim to be patriots protecting the fatherland, when in fact they started the fire that they blamed van der Lubbe for.
I'm not familiar with the Wessel murder you mention I'm afraid.
Horst Wessel is what you might be thinking of... A young Hitler youth assassinated early on in Hitler's career. They named a ship after him.
I was thinking of this incident:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
Not an assassination, but a false flag operation to demonise left wing activists so the fascists could claim to be patriots protecting the fatherland, when in fact they started the fire that they blamed van der Lubbe for.
I'm not familiar with the Wessel murder you mention I'm afraid.
Here's an article on him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel
They even wrote a song about young martyred Horst and it became the Nazis' anthem!