Adolf Friedrich Rutenberg

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Adolf Friedrich Rutenberg (born October 30, 1808 in Berlin ; † December 6, 1869 there ) was a German geography teacher, young Hegelian and journalist .

The free. Drawing by Friedrich Engels. From left to right: Arnold Ruge, Ludwig Buhl, Karl Nauwerck, Bruno Bauer, Otto Wigand, Edgar Bauer, Eduard Meyen, two strangers and Friedrich Köppen as a lieutenant sitting at the table on the far right.
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Life

Adolf Friedrich Rutenberg was the son of Adolph Friedrich Rutenberg, a Mecklenburg shoemaker, and his wife Dorothea Elisabeth Dohrmann, who had moved to Berlin shortly before his birth and had acquired city citizenship there. Adolf Rutenberg attended Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium like Bruno Bauer , who was a year older and later became his brother-in-law. From 1828 to 1831 he studied philosophy , philology and theology at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In the winter semester of 1828/29 he attended the lectures Aesthetics and Philosophy in the History of Hegel . Rutenberg made a transcript of Hegel's lecture on the philosophy of religion in 1831.

After taking the exams in philosophy, philology and theology, he taught at various schools in Berlin. For nine years he worked as a teacher at various schools. From 1838 for geography at the royal cadet school in Neue Friedrichstrasse until he was dismissed in 1840 for drunkenness or political reasons . Then he worked for various magazines, so u. a. for the Hallische Jahrbücher by Arnold Ruge . In Berlin he is a member of the Doktorclub , a philosophical debating group of young lecturers and senior students, in which Karl Marx , Karl Friedrich Köppen , Bruno and Edgar Bauer , Ludwig Buhl (1814-1880 or 1882) took part. Rutenberg seems to have developed a closer friendship with Marx at this time, who reported to his father in November 1837 that he was his "most intimate of the Berlin friends".

On March 25, 1838, Rutenberg married the 25-year-old daughter of a master locksmith Anna Bertha Spiller in Berlin. His daughter Agathe was born on December 10, 1838 in Berlin and baptized on February 3, 1839 in the Sankt Nikolai Church in Berlin. He also had two sons, named Adolph Bruno ( lawyer ) (born April 5, 1840 in Berlin) and Walter ( sculptor ) (born December 29, 1858 in Berlin).

In November 1841 he received an inquiry from Georg Jung as to whether he would like to become the first editor of the Rheinische Zeitung . On February 2, 1842, at the suggestion of Karl Marx, he became the chief editor of the Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne. Rutenberg was responsible for editorial articles on Prussia and Germany . Hoffmann von Fallersleben visited him during the cathedral building festivities in September 1842 . But the editors were dissatisfied with Rutenberg and replaced him on October 15, 1842, replacing him with Karl Marx. Back in Berlin he joins the free group.

And Rtg, the stupid one, / He dangles behind, with his fist not stupid. / From his mouth an eternally identical smoke rises, / A hell of a tobacco smoke - that is his disdainful custom, / When the very long pipe hangs in his mouth, / He only takes it out to nag his nagging . "

- The cheeky, however, threatened the wonderfully liberated Bible. Or: the triumph of faith. Neumünster near Zurich 1842, p. 28.

Rutenberg is the only one of the Berlin Young Hegelians who was invited by Karl Theodor Welcker to write the first edition of the State Lexicon. Encyclopedia of all political sciences for all classes to collaborate. He made the contributions Poland , Prussia (statistics) ; Serbia (history) ; Sina, China ; Turkey , Ottoman Empire and Radical, Radicalism . Gustav Mayer praised the latter .

On April 1, 1848, he founded the National-Zeitung in Berlin, which he was responsible for until the September crisis of 1848. He took an active part in the March Revolution .

In the last years of his life he worked as a journalist for the Preussische (Adler) Zeitung (1851-1853) and the Königlich Preußischer Staats-Anzeiger (1851-1881) and is said to have turned to the National Liberals.

Works (selection)

editor

  • Library of political speeches from the 18th and 19th centuries . 6 vols. Verlag der Voss'schen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1843–1844 vol. 3 and 4 digitized
  • Monthly for economics and social life . Edited by Dr. Rutenberg. Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1846
  • Friedrich Zabel , Adolf Rutenberg (ed.): National newspaper . Sittenfeld, Berlin 1848 ff.

Letters

  • Karl Marx to Rutenberg October 10, 1837
  • Rutenberg to Arnold Ruge December 3, 1840
  • Rutenberg to Arnold Ruge December 17, 1840
  • Rutenberg to Arnold Ruge January 12, 1841
  • Rutenberg to Arnold Ruge January 19, 1841
  • Rutenberg to Arnold Ruge February 24, 1841
  • Rutenberg to Arnold Ruge March 31, 1841
  • Rutenberg to Karl Theodor Welcker July 6, 1841
  • Karl Theodor Welcker to Rutenberg August 27, 1841
  • Rutenberg to Arnold Ruge August 27, 1841
  • Arnold Ruge to Rutenberg November 22, 1841
  • Rutenberg to Arnold Ruge February 24, 1842
  • Max Stirner to Rutenberg March 1, 1842
  • Robert Blum to Adolf Rutenberg May 26, 1842
  • Rutenberg to Karl Theodor Welcker without date
  • Moses Hess an Ruthenberg (mid-1842)
  • Robert Blum to Adolf Rutenberg July 13, 1842
  • August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben to Rutenberg March 1, 1844
  • August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben to Rutenberg May 22, 1845
  • Rutenberg to August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben May 23, 1845
  • Robert Blum to Adolf Rutenberg May 22, 1847
  • August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben to Rutenberg May 22, 1847
  • Rutenberg to August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben June 9, 1848

literature

  • Art. Rutenberg (Adolf Friedrich) . In: Scholars Berlin in 1845 . Scherk, Berlin 1846, pp. 305-306 .
  • Eduard Maria Oettinger, Hugo Schramm-Macdonald: Moniteur des dates, contenant un million de renseignements biographiques, généalogiques et historiques. Supplement . B. Hermann, Leipzig 1880, p. 182.
  • Agathe Nalli-Rutenberg: My dear old Berlin. Memories . Publishing house Continent GmbH, Berlin-Friedenau 1907.
  • Agathe Nalli-Rutenberg: The old Berlin. Memories. With a preface by Ernst Friedel and an appendix to the family chronicle . 5th edition, Verlag Continent GmbH, Berlin-Friedenau 1912.
  • Helmut Hirsch : Karl Friedrich Köppen, Marx's most intimate friend in Berlin . In: Thinkers and Fighters. Collected contributions to the history of the labor movement . European Publishing House, Frankfurt / Main 1955, pp. 19–81.
  • Helmut Hirsch: The Berlin Welcker demonstration. On the early history of the popular demonstrations . In: Archives for Social History . Vol. I, Hannover 1961, pp. 311-370 digitized
  • Wilhelm Klutentreter: The Rheinische Zeitung of 1842/1843 in the political and intellectual movement of the Vormärz (= Dortmund contributions to newspaper research, vol. 10). Ruhfus, Dortmund 1966 and 1967 (2 volumes).
  • Lars Lambrecht : "... With the vehemence of the French revolutionaries of 1792 ...?" On the reception of the French revolution and Fichte's philosophy by the Young Hegelian A. Rutenberg . In: Domenico Losurdo (ed.): Rivoluzione francese e filosofia classica tedesca . Urbino, 1993, pp. 147-168.
  • Martin Hundt : Karl Marx to Adolf Friedrich Rutenberg. An unknown early letter. In: MEGA studies 1/1994. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-320-01826-4 , pp. 148-154.
  • Wolfgang Bunzel, Martin Hundt, Lars Lambrecht (eds.): Center and periphery. Arnold Ruge's correspondence with Young Hegelians in Berlin . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-631-55801-5 .
  • Martin Hundt: The exchange of editorial letters for the Hallische, German and Franco-German yearbooks (1837-1844) . 3 volumes. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004513-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Mayer: Friedrich Engels. A biography . J. Springer, Berlin 1920, p. 315.
  2. For Mr. Ruthenberg on the aesthetics and philosophy of history. Prof. Hegel 18/10/28 . In: Friedhelm Nicolin: Letters from and to Hegel . Volume 4, Part 1: Documents and materials for biography , Hamburg 1977, p. 129.
  3. ^ Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel's lectures on the philosophy of religion . Edited by Philipp Marheineke . 11th vol., 2nd verb. Berlin 1840, p. VII.
  4. Marx-Engels Complete Edition, III. Department . tape 1 , July 9, 1842, p. 17 .
  5. ^ Martin Hundt: Karl Marx to Adolf Rutenberg , p. 151.
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  7. Hess is to become the second editor because he has not yet had any practice, for the first we have asked Flourencourt, Dr. Rutenberg and Buhl written . Georg Jung to Arnold Ruge November 29, 1841 ( Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 1 , Berlin 1978, p. 346).
  8. ^ Rutenberg began his service in the Rheinische Zeitung on February 2, 1842; but already on January 31st the Ministry of Censorship gave the Cologne District President v. Gerlach the instruction to prevent Rutenberg's employment (quoted from Wilhelm Klutentreter, p. 66).
  9. The Rutenberg weighs down my conscience. I brought him to the editorial office of the Rheinische and he is completely impotent. Sooner or later they will show him the way . Karl Marx to Arnold Ruge July 9, 1842 (Marx-Engels Complete Edition, Section III, Vol. 1., p. 30).
  10. ^ Karl Marx to Arnold Ruge July 9, 1842 Marx-Engels Complete Edition, Section III, Vol. 1, p. 30.
  11. ^ Robert Prutz : Ten years. Recent history. 1840-1850 . Vol. 2, Leipzig 1856, p. 357.
  12. September 22-24 in Cologne. I communicate a lot with the entrepreneurs, sponsors and publishers of the Rheinische Zeitung: Banquier Dagobert Oppenheim , Assessor Bürgers , Dr. Marx, Dr. Raabe, Dr. Ruttenberg . (Hoffmann von Fallersleben. Notes and Memories . Vol. 3, Hanover 1868, p. 324).
  13. Marx took the place of Rutenberg even before the government demanded that R. be removed (between us) . Moses Hess to Berthold Auerbach December 6, 1842 ( Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 1 , p. 358).
  14. Marx-Engels Complete Edition, Section I, Vol. 3, p. 408.
  15. Gustav Mayer: Redikalismuas, socialism and bourgeois democracy. Edited by Hans-Ulrich Wehler . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1969, p. 9 (edition suhrkamp 310).
  16. ^ Arnold Ruge to Julius Fröbel September 3, 1842 (Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 1, Berlin 1978, p. 354.)
  17. Mentioned in: Handbuch der deutschen Geschichte von Bruno Gebhardt u. a., Stuttgart 1961, p. 335.
  18. ^ Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg Signature: Letters
  19. a b c d e f g h i The exchange of editorial letters.
  20. ^ Heidelberg University Library Signature: Heid. Hs. 1919.73
  21. ^ Heidelberg University Library Signature: Heid. Hs. 3476.19
  22. ^ Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg Signature: VII. Publicists. Germany
  23. Dortmund City and State Library Call number: 3836
  24. ^ City Archives Mannheim Signature: Kl. Erw. 172, 1,2
  25. ^ RGASPI Moscow Signature: Fond 173 delo 3997
  26. City Archives Hanover Signature: 141
  27. ^ Fritz Reuter Literature Archive Hans-Joachim Griephan Berlin
  28. Dortmund City and State Library Call number: 1284
  29. Dortmund City and State Library Call number: 5300
  30. Dortmund City and State Library Call number: 3835
  31. Dortmund City and State Library Signature: Atg No. 1284
  32. Dortmund City and State Library Call number: 5299
  33. Short biography of Rutenberg