Президент Социалистической республики Брауншвейг Август Мергес: путь рабочего-интеллигента
August Merges: President of the Socialist Republic of Brownshweig: the way of the worker-intelligent

Summary/Abstract: In modern Russian historiography, the regional aspect of the revolution in Germany of 1918—1919 is poorly affected, and such a state entity as the Socialist Republic of Braunschweig and its actors are not considered at all. The purpose of the article is to give a political portrait of the president of the 99-day republic on the banks of the Oker Augustus Merges (1870—1945). The author relies primarily on foreign sources and literature. The work uses historical-chronological, historical-comparative research methods. The years of study, the work of a tailor and the first steps of a young man in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the occupation of journalistic activities are examined. It is noted that during the First World War A. Merges with a group of comrades founded the Revolutionary Club of Braunschweig, which was engaged in anti-militaristic agitation. The article shows the great influence of Merges on the course of revolutionary events in the duchy, which brought him to the post of president of the Socialist Republic of Braunschweig. It speaks of the activities of the Soviet government, the position against the convocation of the German National Assembly on January 19, 1919, and the attempt to proclaim the Soviet republic on February 28 in Braunschweig. It describes how, on April 17, with the introduction of the volunteer corps into the former duchy, Augustus hides from the city and until 1933 concentrates on working in leftist communist and syndicalist organizations, and after the Nazis came to power in Germany against their regime. Repeatedly arrested and died due to ill-treatment in custody. At the end of the article, it is concluded that the intellectual worker August Merges is one of the main characters of the November Revolution in Braunschweig, who did not allow bloodshed in the post of the President of the Socialist Republic in the city of Bremen and Bavaria.

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