 It was used for "rear-security" duties until it was sent to the Eastern front, with the exception of one regiment that fought the Slovak National Uprising in August 1944.It later fought as a single unit in Hungary and later in Czechoslovakia where it was destroyed.The Division was named after SA member Horst Wessel, known for being the author of the lyrics to the Nazi Party anthem, the "Horst-Wessel-Lied", and glorified by the Nazi regime as a martyr of the party's early years.