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Ewerbeck was part of a group including Moses Hess and and Karl Ludwig Johann D'Ester tried to get Marx to abandon Engels. According to Oscar J. Hammen, Engels had "wounded the sensibilities of other Communists because he was likely to act as the hatchet-man for Marx. As a result he was sometimes impetuous, brusque and even brutal." Their effort to divide Marx and Engels was not successful.