Rheinische Post German Newspaper is a major German regional daily newspaper, published since 1946 by the Rheinische Post Verlagsgesellschaft mbH company.

With an average circulation of about 400,000 and its headquarters in Düsseldorf, the paper is especially dominant in the western part of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Rheinische Post is one of the allied new foundations in the post-World War II era. NSDAP-opponents Karl Arnold, Anton Betz, Erich Wenderoth and (soon resigned) Friedrich Vogel received a British newspaper licence. Nowadays the newspaper belongs to the Arnold, Betz, Droste, Alt and Ebel families (last updated: July 2008).

The core distribution area stretches from the Bergischen Land to the Dutch border. There are 31 local editions, among them other regional newspapers, like the Neuß-Grevenbroicher Zeitung, the Benrather Tageblatt and the Bocholter-Borkener Volksblatt, which have their own regional news pages. The Rheinische Post is available at kiosks as well as through subscriptions. The paper is published in Rhenish format.

In 2001 Rheinische Post had a circulation of 418,000 copies.The circulation of the paper was 411,000 copies.