Adolf Rutenberg

Adolf Friedrich Rutenberg (30 October 1808 – December 1869) was a German geography teacher, Young Hegelian and journalist.

From 1838, he taught geography at the cadet school in Neuen Friedrichstraße, but was dismissed two years later for "drunkenness" and/or "political reasons".

[11] In September 1842, during the celebrations of the rebuilding of the Cologne Cathedral, Hoffmann von Fallersleben visited Rutenberg.

[13] He then returned to Berlin and joined a circle called Die Freien ("The Free [Ones]"), of which Max Stirner also took part.

Rutenberg was later invited by Carl Theodor Welcker to contribute to his geopolitical encyclopedia Staatslexikons: Encyklopädie der sämmtlichen Staatswissenschaften für alle Stände.

[citation needed] During his last years, he worked as a journalist for the Preußische (Adler) Zeitung (1851-1853) and the Royal Prussian State Gazette (1851-1871) and is said to have turned to the National Liberals.