Education
Wessel graduated from a vocational school training as a metal worker
politician member of the Volkskammer
Wessel graduated from a vocational school training as a metal worker
From 1929 to 1932 he was a worker and foreman at Chemische Werke Wolfen, then foreman of an artificial silk plant in Athens, and during the years 1939 to 1945 he was a foreman in the Agfa film factory in Wolfen. In 1945 he was chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany of Wolfen. Finally, until 1949, he was secretary of the SED state association in Halle.
In 1918 he joined the Socialist Workers" Youth and was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1921 to 1932 and a correspondent for the Social Democratic Party of Germany parliamentary faction of Saxony from 1926 to 1927.
From the beginning of 1946, he was head of the Economic Section of the Social Democratic Party of Germany for the province of Saxony in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, then head of the Economic Department of the SED State Association of Saxony-Anhalt and Member of Parliament. During 1949-1951, he, Fred Oelssner, and Edith Baumann were members of the small secretariat of the Political Bureau. After attending the Party School from 1950 to 1960 he was deputy director and general manager of a foreign trade company, a member of the Trade Council in Pyongyang until 1965, and later worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and German domestic trade.