Joseph Weydemeyer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Weydemeyer

Union Army officer

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1818

Place of Birth: Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 26-Aug-1866

Profession: writer, journalist, revolutionary

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Joseph Arnold Weydemeyer (February 2, 1818, Münster – August 26, 1866, St.
Louis, Missouri) was a military officer in the Kingdom of Prussia and the United States as well as a journalist, politician and Marxist revolutionary. At first a supporter of "true socialism", Weydemeyer became in 1845–1846 a follower of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
He became a member of the League of Communists and from 1849 to 1851 headed its Frankfurt chapter.
He visited Marx in Brussels, staying there for a time to attend Marx's lectures.
He participated in the 1848 Revolution.
He was one of the "responsible editors" of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung from 1849 to 1850.
He was involved in the writing of the manuscript of The German Ideology. Weydemeyer worked on two socialist periodicals which were the Westphälisches Dampfboot ("Westphalian Steamboat") and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung.
In 1851, he emigrated from Germany to the United States and worked there as a journalist.
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, written by Marx, was published in 1852 in Die Revolution, a German-language monthly magazine in New York established by Weydemeyer. Weydemeyer took part in the American Civil War as a lieutenant colonel in the Union Army.