August Merges

August Merges
Braunschweig Novemberrevolution Delegation Arbeiter- und Soldatenrat 8. Nov. 1918
Born
August Ernst Reinhold Merges

(1870-03-03)3 March 1870
Malstatt-Burbach, Trier, Rhine Province, Prussia, Germany
Died6 March 1945(1945-03-06) (aged 75)
Braunschweig, Südhannover-Braunschweig, Germany
Occupation(s)Political activist
Anti-war activist
Revolutionary activist
Campaigning journalist
Parliamentarian
Political partySPD
USPD
KPD
KAPD
SpouseMinna Hermes[a]
Children5

August Ernst Reinhold Merges (3 March 1870 – 6 March 1945) was a German activist, politician and revolutionary. He was a member of various communist and syndicalist organisations; becoming one of the leaders of the German Revolution in Braunschweig, and subsequently a member of the Weimar National Assembly, convened in 1919 to draw up a constitution for the new German republic. In 1933, he came to the notice of the authorities as a "background member" of an anti-government resistance group. In 1945, after he was found dead in the little summer-hut in his son's allotment (where he lived for the last two years of his life) it was determined that ever since undergoing a succession of severe torture sessions at the hands of the security services during and after 1935, he had suffered without a break from the bone tuberculosis that killed him. His name is accordingly listed on the "Reichstag Memorial" to the 96 members of the parliament who died "unnaturally" during the twelve Hitler years.[1][2][3][4]


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  1. ^ Hermann Weber; Andreas Herbst. "Merges, August, * 3.3.1870 † 6.3.1945". Handbuch der Deutschen Kommunisten. Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Merges, August". Handbuch der verfassunggebenden deutschen Nationalversammlung, Weimar 1919. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. p. 218. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  3. ^ "August Ernst Reinhold Merges alias Krummer August (* 3.3.1870 – † 6.3.1945)". Allgemeines Syndikat Düsseldorf: Basisgewerkschaft für alle Berufe. FAU, Düsseldorf. 21 January 2010. Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  4. ^ Gerhard Schildt, In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches biographisches Lexikon. 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Hahn, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8, p. 410