Rheinische Zeitung

A German daily paper founded on 1 January 1842 in Cologne as an organ of bourgeois liberal politics. Its official chief editor from October 1842 until March 1843 was Karl Marx. His collaborators on the paper included Engels, Fröbel, Herwegh, and A H Hoffmann von Fallersleben. Publication was forbidden on 31 March 1843, and succeeded by the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in 1848.

The Rheinische Zeitung ("Rhenish Newspaper") was a 19th-century German newspaper, edited most famously by Karl Marx.

The paper was founded on January 1, 1842 with a reformist pro-democracy editorial slant, providing an outlet for the Rhine region's middle-class and intellectuals, who were increasingly opposed to Prussian authoritarianism.

In October 1842, Marx was named editor of the paper. On November 16, Friedrich Engels visited the paper's offices on his way to England, meeting Marx for the first time and starting what would become a long period of collaboration between the two, lasting until Marx's death.

Under Marx's guidance, with additional influence from Engels, the paper began to take a more radical stance, openly opposing government policies with increasing stridency. An article by Marx critically discussing the relationship between the Prussian government and the Catholic Church was censored by the state and never published;

By early 1843 Marx was promoting dangerously radical ideologies through the paper, increasingly espousing socialist and communist viewpoints and nearly openly calling for a revolution to replace the Prussian monarchy with a democracy.

Marx went on to found the Neue Rheinische Zeitung ("New Rhenish Newspaper") in 1848.