Joseph Weydemeyer

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Joseph Weydemeyer

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Joseph Arnold Weydemeyer (born February 2, 1818 in Münster, Prussia; died August 26, 1866 in St. Louis, USA) was a military in Prussia and the USA, journalist, politican and marxist revolutionary.

Prussian artillery officer. At first a supporter of "true socialism" he became, in 1845-46, a follower of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Member of the League of Communists; in 1849-51, head of its Frankfurt chapter. He visited Marx in Brussels, stayed there for a time and attended Marx’s lectures. Participated in the 1848 Revolution. One of the "responsible editors" of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in 1849-50. There too he wrote out large parts of the manuscript of the Deutsche Ideologie (German Ideology) in a fair copy. Collaborated in socialist periodicals: the Westphälisches Dampfboot (Westphalian Steamboat) and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. In 1851 he emigrated from Germany to America and worked there as a journalist. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, written by Karl Marx, was published in 1852 in "Die Revolution", a German-language monthly magazine in New York, established by Weydemeyer.

Joseph Weydemeyer took part in the war against the Southern slave owners as colonel of a regiment in the Northern army.