1870 - 1945
August Merges German Activist
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Details
| Birthday |
3rd March, 1870
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| Birthplace |
Malstatt-Burbach, Trier, Rhine Province, Prussia, Germany
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| Died |
6th March, 1945
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| Place of Death |
Braunschweig, Südhannover-Braunschweig, Germany
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| Zodiac Sign |
Pisces
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| Nationality |
German
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| Occupation Text |
Political activist, Anti-war activist, Revolutionary activist, Campaigning journalist, Parliamentarian
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| Occupation |
Activist
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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.
