The reason for these searches is the fact that Wilhelm Clouth printed the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" in An St. Agatha no. 12 (Ecke Schildergasse) from 31 May to 27 August 1848. On the first floor of the printing shop, the editors also had their headquarters. The chief editor was Karl Marx, the communistic editor of "Das Kapital"..

In the historical-critical edition of the Marx-Engels (the MEGA-Edition (The Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) is the complete, historically critical edition of the publications, the omitted manuscripts (drafts) and the correspondence of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It presents the complete literary legacy of Marx and Engels in its entirety. To the already known writings, articles and letters - also the letters addressed to them by third parties - come a series of previously unpublished or newly discovered works. In addition, all manuscripts, drafts, notes and excerpts are published), also available online, is coordinated at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, 2005 the 53rd volume has been published; supposedly the complete MEGA will be finished in 2025).

Dr. Melis worked on three volumes of the MEGA, in which about 580 articles and explanations by Marx and Engels from the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" are published. These three volumes also document the history of this newspaper, including the collaboration with Wilhelm Clouth.

This is also the reason why he contacted the lawyer Jürgen Clouth. Although he had already been able to find numerous testimonies on the life and work of Wilhelm Clouth, he was looking for further documents of the collaboration of the printer owner with Marx, the contract between the two for the printing of the newspaper, the surveys and searches of the Prussian authorities at Clouth, etc. The MEGA will be more glorious than the actual reality of the time and the hidden functions of Marx

In this way, the wish to contact the signatory also arose, in order to determine further documents of the great-grandfather with his support. He was also eager to make copies of the Clouth archive, even if it were "only" copies and photographs (such as the house with the printing shop of Wilhelm Clouth, whose owner he was). "

Thankfully, in the meantime we have gained numerous insights from Dr. Dr. Melis over Wilhelm, for which we expressly thank him again. With this authorization, we may pass these on to interested parties as follows:

The business premises / printing shop of Wilhelm Clouth were not, as in the book of Manfred Backhausen, originally accepted under the address Heumarkt 27, but rather he had his own printing house in "An St. Agatha No. 12" no later than 1841. (Address book of the city of Cologne 1841). Either immediately or at a later date, Clouth also acquired the two-storey house as a property at the entrance "Schildergasse", corner at

um 1870, Rheinische Bildarchiv, Köln

St. Agatha with house No. 12 (see arrow), where the printing shop of Wilhelm Clouth was located. From June 1, 1848, the Neue Rheinische Zeitung appeared there. The editors, headed by Karl Marx, had their seat on the first floor. The number 88 of August 29, 1848, could not appear because of inconsistencies with the printer. Friedrich Engels - Karl Marx at this time in Vienna - succeeded within a few hours to secure the further pressure of the newspaper with Johann Wilhelm Dietz.
That, as initially assumed, the company Büscheler & Comp. the NRhZ was printed, is based on an error. The "Herald on the Rhine" was printed at this company, which was located in Brückenstraße No. 13, as the imprint of No. 39 of 28 September 1837 shows. Three days later, a change of ownership might have occurred, for on 1 September 1837 the imprint of the above-mentioned page is as follows: "Clouth & Comp. Bridges Street No. 13 ".
This is confirmed in a review of the rehearsal sheet of the "Rheinischer Beobachter" of September 30, 1844, p. 4, since Clouth published his enterprise as "Book and Congreve Printing, by W. Clouth St. Agatha No. 12 in Cologne."
In "An St. Agatha no. 12" the NRhZ was then printed from 31 May to 28 August 1848. It was highly probable that the editorial office was also located on the first floor. Only after an argument between Friedrich Engels and Clouth - Marx was at this time in Vienna - the newspaper was printed with Johann Wilhelm Dietz in "Untermachmacher" No. 17, today Heumarkt No. 65.

The Marx-Engels dizziness

"You are still sitting up there, their cowardly figures, paid for by the enemy, and mocked the people. But once again there will be righteousness, and the people shall judge, and God rejoice. "                                 C. Th. Körner, 1791-1813

Political Correctness

The Prussian government official Karl Marx

Karl Marx was married to the little sister of Prussian Interior Minister Ferdinand von Westphalen. This is almost the whole secret of Marxism - "hidden in plain sight," as the English would say, and yet well hidden enough that hardly anyone knows until now. The large industrial, the high aristocracy and high finance feared an alliance between the workers' movement and the bourgeoisie, that is to say the small entrepreneurs, traders, craftsmen, and officials, right up to the churches. The secret task of Karl Marx and his philistines and followers was and still is to prevent this alliance between citizens and workers' movement. To this end, the wildest ideas of communism, atheism, world revolution, and dictatorship of the proletariat are spread among workers and their trade unions and parties - at that time by Karl Marx, now mostly by students from the upper classes - so that all citizens, expropriation, Materialism, the abolition of the nation and the family, and a life in communism, can be mobilized against the workers' movement and won over for the interests of the big industry, the aristocracy and high finance.

Karl Marx has openly proclaimed that Communist ideas "would stir up the furies of private interest" against the workers' movement and thus against the women and children who had been killed in factories and miners. The demand for better working conditions and higher wages, on the other hand, would have been supported by the bourgeoisie, which itself had to compete with the big industry, but as a small entrepreneur could profit from better wages in the factories:

 In the field of political economy, free scientific research encounters not only the same enemies as in all other fields. The peculiar nature of the substance which it treats invites against them the most violent, petty, and most hideous passions of the human breast, the furies of private interest, to the battle-place. The English High Church, e.g. Forgives the attack on 38 of its 39 religious articles rather than 1/39 of its money. Nowadays, atheism itself is a culpa levis, a small sin, compared to the critique of the state of property ownership.

Marx becomes editor-in-chief of the Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne

 Karl Marx had not yet even published his doctoral thesis and had qualified for the high-paid post as chief editor only by his success as an informer and agent against Bruno Bauer. The "Rheinische Zeitung", which represented a government-critical course on the outside, was editorial, also somewhat overshadowed by the influence of sympathizers of Bruno Bauer, the control of the government. Marx dismissed the supporters of Bauer among the employees, and had sharp articles published in the Rheinische Zeitung against the "Doctorclub" of Bruno Bauer, who had returned to Berlin.

The ruling circles at that time saw their advantage in the fact that with Marxism there is very little beginning for all opponents and victims of capitalist relations. In the nineteenth century a strong resistance to the impoverishment of the masses through capitalist industrialization, which son Franz Clouth later became a part of it, developed. Strikes and violent counter-attacks, as well as the attacks of the anarchists against autocrats, government members, industrialists and bankers were feared. Since Marx and Engels took over the ideological leadership of the Communists, the revolutionaries analyzed peacefully the value form.

The suppression of the anarchists was the most important concern of Marx in the First International. Their foundation was based on the efforts of Emperor Napoleon III. (According to the Marxian biography of Mehring, because in France every attempt by an organization of the workers was still forbidden) by this International in London to make his bourgeoisie more dependent on his benevolence. Marx was engaged by exiled French and British in order to sabotage the First International Workers Association, founded in 1864. In 1872, Marx also succeeded in moving his seat from London to New York after the French Emperor had lost the Battle of Sedan in 1870 and in Prussian captivity Had been advised.

The task of the Frankfurt School was first, to undermine the Judeo-Christian legacy through an "abolition of culture" (Aufhebung der Kultur in Lukacs' German) and, second, to determine new cultural forms which would increase the alienation of the population, thus creating a "new barbarism." To this task, there gathered in and around the Frankfurt School an incredible assortment of not only Communists, but also non-party socialists, radical phenomenologists, Zionists, renegade Freudians, and at least a few members of a self-identified "cult of Astarte." The variegated membership reflected, to a certain extent, the sponsorship: although the Institute for Social Research started with Comintern support, over the next three decades its sources of funds included various German and American universities, the Rockefeller Foundation, Columbia Broadcasting System, the American Jewish Committee, several American intelligence services, the Office of the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, the International Labour Organization, and the Hacker Institute, a posh psychiatric clinic in Beverly Hills.

Similarly, the Institute's political allegiances: although top personnel maintained what might be called a sentimental relationship to the Soviet Union (and there is evidence that some of them worked for Soviet intelligence into the 1960's), the Institute saw its goals as higher than that of Russian foreign policy. Stalin, who was horrified at the undisciplined, "cosmopolitan" operation set up by his predecessors, cut the Institute off in the late 1920's, forcing Lukacs into "self-criticism" and briefly jailing him as a German sympathizer during World War II.

Lukacs survived to briefly take up his old post as Minister of Culture during the anti-Stalinist Imre Nagy regime in Hungary. Of the other top Institute figures, the political perambulations of Herbert Marcuse are typical. He started as a Communist; became a protégé of philosopher Martin Heidegger even as the latter was joining the Nazi Party; coming to America, he worked for the World War II Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and later became the U.S. State Department's top analyst of Soviet policy during the height of the McCarthy period; in the 1960's, he turned again, to become the most important guru of the New Left; and he ended his days helping to found the environmentalist extremist Green Party in West Germany. In all this seeming incoherence of shifting positions and contradictory funding, there is no ideological conflict. The invariant is the desire of all parties to answer Lukacs' original question: "Who will save us from Western civilization?"

These are modern colleagues of Marx and Engels in direction to alienation of christian western states. Quite a few Marxists were even called upon to university chairs in the United States and England, received the greatest attention from the media and were celebrated as particularly courageous and great thinkers. To this end, they help the capital and refuse any discussion about the monetary policy causes of the economic crises which they wish to explain with the alleged "tendencial case of the profitees".

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