The Division was named after the SA or (Sturmabteilung) hero Horst Wessel, a German Nazi known for being the author of lyrics to the song "Die Fahne hoch" (Horst Wessel Lied) and for being glorified by the Nazi regime as a martyr of the early years of the Nazi party.
The best-known building on Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße is the Volksbühne ("people's theatre") at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (which was called Bülowplatz before World War II and Horst-Wessel-Platz during the Nazi period).
Louis Horst | Horst Liepolt | Horst Hrubesch | Horst Köhler | Horst | Horst Schumann | Horst Buchholz | Horst Wessel | Horst Stein | Horst Muhlmann | Horst Jankowski | Horst Bredekamp | Horst aan de Maas | Hans Horst Meyer | Wessel Islands | Horst Heese | Horst H. Baumann | Horst Fascher | 18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Horst Wessel | Wessel van Diepen | Peter Wessel Zapffe | Painted by Eilif Peterssen in 1892: An evening at the Norwegian Society (''En aften i Det norske Selskab''). The man with the raised glass in the foreground is Johan Herman Wessel | Morris A. Wessel | Horst Zuse | Horst Wohlers | Horst-Wessel-Lied | Horst von der Goltz | Horst Steinmann | Horst Schmid | Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske |
Schepmann managed to have units in the Heer (Panzerkorps Feldherrnhalle), Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe (Jagdgeschwader 6 Horst Wessel) given SA honour titles, and even a Waffen-SS division (18. SS Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Horst Wessel).
However, he was pressured into resigning from the university German Club for singing the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" and other Nazi songs.