Her doorman, Frau Salm, widow of a Communist, wanting to get rid of this personage who fell to him bad, organize a tangle with the pretext of a rent pending payment and summons a group of Communists of the low bottoms of Berlin, of "the Red Front battle " to intimidate to him.

                                   
On 14th January of 1.930, commanded by the bean Else Cohn, a group directed by Ali Höher (32), she made formal appearance in the study of Horst Wessel, in which she lived with his companion Erna Järnicke. She opened without doubting the door . Horst was sat down and heard to ask for him the he received several firings to turn around, being lowered by a shot in the jaw .The projectile tore refuge Wessel jawbone and tongue away. Quickly their comrades take part and they take to the Hospital of the Friedrichshain. He arrived at 11:30.

   Continued with the report of one of the nurses who had dealt with Horst during five weeks until the its death and the Doctor Braum, Head of the hospital, we know that he had a big internal bleeding had been placed in his mouth and with a high fever and its temperature was very low, probably due to great loss of blood. In the first hours, when still it could not speak, it wrote its desires in paper pieces. But in briefing the swell of the language diminished, and the cramps could have been removed. Horst Wessel started to speak. It rare complained of the pain, that had to be great. It only spoke of its ideal. It remembered all the details of the attack. He usually said, "everything happened very fast, I heard the shot and I felt the blood hot to drain for my neck, but everything fast happened very. They had not said nothing, had soon left to run, later I don't remember more ".He believe than he will better soon and he coming to Munich. Firmly he was convinced of that he was to recoup. One never complained of the enormous pain caused for the pieces of the bullet still in its meat, but generally one complained of that its neck ached. The location of the mortal wound was this.

   The same Dr Goebbels comes to see several times him, as well as Prince August Wilhelm of Prusia, member of the SA, but mainly his Inge sister. On 11th of February his health was deteriorating for no apparent reason and the fever start again, but the 13th the doctor can extract the piece of the guns that he had incrusted in the jaw. This was very positive and the doctor have a lot of hope. But the Wednesday 20th he start to have convulsion, the doctor put him oxygen and he start to delirious When she came back with fifteen of the comrades most loyal of Horst Wessel, was lying in the unconscious bed already, with the closed eyes, and to breathe heavily. Probably already one was to debate with the death. But when she heard one of its comrades to pass close to it, she raised its right arm in a greeting with its last forces. Saturday to the noon already he was in agony. The doctors were to treat it. He received a chock amount from oxygen and injection. Its mother, its sister and its friend, Sturmführer Friedler, were there.
   The Professor Braun, who operated Horst Wessel personally said in his death certificate:
   "In day 14 of January, to the 11:30 " it says here, disclosed the professor, "Horst Wessel was after interned a great loss of blood. Its face was covered with a blood crust, and it could not speak. To prevent that he died due to loss of blood, it had of being treated immediately. "
"We obtain to close the main artery, and the internal bleeding stopped total. They can see the nature of the wound in these x-rays. Over the good one it is the hole provoked for the bullet when entering. Upper jawbone is wounded and can see feeds of bone and pieces of the bullet in the cheek. The bullet passed for the language and stopped in the jawbone in front of the second vertebra of the neck, an extremely dangerous area. We treat its wound in accordance with the habitual mode, and the patient improved a little. But I still had the printing to that he was about a seriously sick person who bravely, almost stubbornly, if rebelled against its needy condition. "

   "In day 17 of January Horst Wessel already it obtained to speak and to drink liquids another time, the hearing of its left ear only is that still she was weak. In the end of January already an improvement was visible, but still we did not know if I break up it of the bullet in the bone of jawbone had damaged the vertebra of the neck. Therefore I asked for that they brought me the patient for an operation. I tried to reach the bullet that was in jawbone with a sounding lead. But I had that to abort this procedure soon to follow, because the patient collapse without life in the table of operations. This was the first sign that made me to notice that the infection if was to spread cruelly. In day 11 of February its general condition was very serious. The fever attacks had become more frequent. "
   "The 13 of February its general condition demonstrated an improvement. The pieces of bullet and the feeds of the bone had been removed, and already we thought: perhaps still let us obtain it to save. But pains in the neck, which it complained, were extremely preoccupying. If this bone was hurt, the patient was irremediable lost. Exactly the fastest penetration of this essential agency leads to a general decline, to the poisoning of the blood. From 15 of February its condition grew worse each time more. Its force disappeared. The 19 of February its condition still was bad. The patient was untiring, and stronger pains were each time. The 20 of February had started the convulsions. The 21 of February the patient was with a yellowish tone, and other symptoms of a possible poisoning of global blood had appeared. The 22 of February we had the certainty of that, although all the efforts, the second vertebra were damaged, and the patient could not be saved. "
   In the night of 22 for 23 of February he get worse quickly. Throughout a month fights between the life and the death, to pass away finally of septicemia the Sunday 23th of January of 1930 at 6'30 in the morning.
   Until the 26th of February there was a obituary notice in the Angriff (the Goebbels' newspaper) and the 1st they notified that the funeral was in the old cemetery of St.Nicolai and St. Marien Gemeinde, in the south-east of Berlin.
   The process that took place against the assassins under the regime of the Republic of Weimar, it practically relaxed to the assassins, and was necessary to hope to the arrival of the NSDAP the power to make justice. Ali Hohler and the bean Else Cohn was executed.