Paul Merker
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Paul Merker was a German trade unionist and politician of the Communist Party of Germany who later became a leading official of East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
Stasi photograph of Merker issued with his arrest warrant, 1952
The airship hall at Yambol where the German Empire operated a military base during the First World War, and where Paul Merker served as a soldier.
Merker's official Landtag portrait, 1925
Merker (far left) with several other East German dignitaries, 1946
Fritz Emrich
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Fritz Emrich was a German trade unionist, Communist Party official, and politician who served as the National Leader of the Revolutionäre Gewerkschafts Opposition from June to October 1930 and in the
Paul Merker
…of the "ultra-left excesses of Social fascism" which Merker represented. He was also obliged to surrender his leadership of the RGO in favour of Fritz Emrich. Merker now occupied second tier positions in the party and in 1931 was made available to the Communist International, which prepared the way for a…
Emrich c. 1932
Schönhauser Allee 22 in 2007