The Editors of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung

Author(s) Ernst Dronke
Ferdinand Wolff
Friedrich Engels
Georg Weerth
Karl Marx
Wilhelm Wolff
Written 19 May 1849


Printed in Düsseldorfer Zeitung
Reprinted in the Deutsche Zeitung No. 140, May 22, 1849 and the Trier'sche Zeitung No. 122, May 23, 1849
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 9
Collection(s): Deutsche Zeitung, Düsseldorfer Zeitung, Trier'sche Zeitung

Cologne, May 19. ... What has happened to the individual editors of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung is as follows: for his actions in Elberfeld Fr. Engels is being prosecuted like a criminal;[1] Marx, Dronke and Weerth, since they are not Prussian subjects, have to leave Prussia; F. Wolff and W. Wolff are being threatened with judicial proceedings, the former because he has not done military service, the latter because of political offences alleged to have been committed by him earlier in the old provinces. The Court has today refused to free Korff on bail.[2]

  1. ↑ See this volume, pp. 447-49.— Ed.
  2. ↑ See this volume, pp. 521-22.— Ed.