Karl Arnold was one of the founders of the CDU, served as Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf at the time, and later became the first freely elected Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1947 to 1956. He stood for a Christian, trade union-oriented, and democratic new beginning.

Anton Betz was a German journalist, publisher, and publicist who served as the principal license holder and a defining integrative figure for the newspaper. He was also politically engaged and was among the founders of the CDU in the Rhineland.

Erich Wenderoth was a lawyer who engaged on behalf of persecuted individuals during the Hitler regime. His motivation for founding Rheinische Post was to "create a new free newspaper that accompanies, promotes, and strengthens democratic reconstruction." He was a jurist, committed Protestant Christian, and lawyer whose motivation for co-founding the newspaper was to establish an economically independent and free press.

Hans Peter Bork, gebo­ren 1967, ist seit Juni 2011 Geschäfts­füh­rer der Rhei­ni­sche Post Medi­en­gruppe, verantwortlich für: Immobilien, Finan­zen, Steu­ern, Con­trol­ling, Recht, M&A, Revi­sion, IT, Personal, Einkauf sowie Innen- und Immobilienverwaltung. Er startete 1993 bei der BDO Deut­sche Waren­treu­hand AG (Düs­sel­dorf), wech­selte 2007 als Part­ner Wirt­schafts­prü­fung zu Deloitte & Tou­che GmbH (Düs­sel­dorf).

Matthias Körner, born 1971, became managing director of Rheinische Post Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (Düsseldorf) in 2019, where he is responsible for all market activities of Rheinische Post. These include distribution, advertising, content marketing, CRM, and events, as well as publishing marketing. Following apprenticeships at Axel Springer and Bauer Media Group, he became managing director of rtv media group (arvato/Bertelsmann AG). Subsequently, Körner served as managing director of Funke Mediengruppe's North Rhine-Westphalia operations (Essen).

Thomas Marx has been managing director and head of publishing operations of Rheinische Post Mediengruppe since July 1, 2021. Since 2019, Marx had served as managing director of Saarbrücker Zeitungsgruppe, which is majority-owned by Rheinische Post Mediengruppe, responsible for logistics, pre-press, and printing. According to Johannes Werle, CEO of Rheinische Post Mediengruppe, this unified leadership is expected to achieve "acceleration of digital transformation, increased efficiency, and elimination of duplicate structures."