# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/august-merges
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:10:50.894Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/august-merges"
name: "August Merges"
slug: "august-merges"
description: "August Ernst Reinhold Merges 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 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."
tagline: "German politician (1870-1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/August_Merges_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1870"
deathDate: "1945"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.15
  momentum:             2.302631578947368
  historical:           4.606732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%BA%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "أوغست ميرجيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%B7%D8%B3_%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%AC"
    title: "اجسطس يدمج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Merges"
    title: "August Merges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Merges"
    title: "August Merges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Merges"
    title: "Augustus Merges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103506"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump