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The Second Trial of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung
| Author(s) | Ernst Dronke Georg Weerth Karl Marx |
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| Written | 29 May 1849 |
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 9
Cologne, May 29. Today the police court passed sentence in a case which has been pending since September of last year concerning a charge of libelling deputies of the Frankfurt National Assembly.[1]Summoned before the court were: K. Marx, E. Dronke, G. Weerth, H. Becker, H. Korff, and the printers Dietz and Bechtold. The first three did not attend. With the exception of Korff, all were acquitted. Korff (as former responsible manager of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung) was sentenced to one monthâs imprisonment and payment of one-seventh of the costs, on the charge of insulting the âcomical Stedtmannâ. The court very incisively rejected the accusation against Weerth in regard to Schnapphahnski-Lichnowski.
- â In September 1848 Marx, Korff and others were accused by the imperial Ministry of having libelled the deputies of the Frankfurt National Assembly in: 1) Georg Weerthâs series of feuilletons Leben und Taten des berhmten Ritters Schnapphahnski directed against Lichnowski, a Right-wing representative, and published anonymously in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in August, September and December 1848 and January 1849; 2) a report from Breslau in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 95 for September 6, 1848 about Prince Lichnowskiâs machinations in the electoral campaign; 3) a report from Frankfurt am Main in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 102 for September 14, 1848 exposing false information in the report by Stedtmann, deputy to the Frankfurt National Assembly, concerning the vote on the armistice with Denmark; 4) a resolution of the public meeting in Cologne published in the Neue RheinischeZeitung No. 110, September 23, 1848, in which the deputies of the Frankfurt National Assembly who had voted for the armistice with Denmark were accused of having betrayed the nation (see present edition, Vol. 7, pp. 588-89). For more details on the trial, see this volume, pp. 517-20.