German revolutions of 1848–1849
Marx and Engels and Karl Ludwig serving as a member of the provisional government in Baden and the Palatinate
Central Europe (Present-Day Germany)
In late 1848, Marx and Engels intended to meet with Karl Ludwig Johann D'Ester, then serving as a member of the provisional government in Baden and the Palatinate. He was a physician, democrat and socialist who had been a member of the Cologne community chapter of the Communist League.