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Ludwig Erhard Prize for business excellence
Brussels: Member of the Executive Board of the ECB Peter Praet addressed the
Ludwig Erhard Lecture, organised by the Lisbon Council.
BORN TAMMY Wynette, W US singer, 1942, above RICHARD E Grant, actor, 1957 BILLWard, Ward, W UK rock rock drummer, 1948 DIED NAPOLEON, French Emperor, 1821, above MIKHAIL Botvinnik, chess champion, 1995
LUDWIG Erhard, economist, 1977
Will Alsop began his career on a Hamburg quayside, Ian Ritchie reinterpreted Crystal Palace for the Leipziger Messchalle (AR December 1993) and Nicholas Grimshaw made an armadillo-shaped mark on Berlin with his
Ludwig Erhard Haus (AR January 1999).
When Chancellor
Ludwig Erhard left office in 1966, he quickly faded into the background of the West German political scene.
Number One was, of course, the legendary
Ludwig Erhard, the architect of Germany's post-war "economic miracle" (Wirtschaflswunder) and its special blend of "social market economy." Schiller, who taught economics at Hamburg University to such successful policymakers as former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, became the first Social Democrat to run the economic ministry on the federal level.
He won a disciple in
Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977), who had secretly educated himself in free-market economics during the war by reading Ropke's prohibited books, and who now became director of economic administration of the area jointly occupied by America and Britain.
Not even
Ludwig Erhard succeeded in doing that later in post-war Western Germany."
Nicholls offers here a collective intellectual biography of several key figures (especially
Ludwig Erhard and Karl Schiller) in West Germany's adoption of the social market economy, along with an account of certain political developments that help explain that adoption.
In Berlin, the
Ludwig Erhard Haus (AR January 1999) combines almost all the Grimshaw firm's present preoccupations: its arched structure is intended to make maximum usable space on a tight site; its delicate glass front on Fasanenstra[beta]e relates to the scale of the prim nineteenth-century thoroughfare; its generous semi-public spaces have become remarkably popular for private and public parties (p22).
Lucius Clay to fire the German director of economic administration in the American and British occupied zones; Clay replaced him with
Ludwig Erhard, whose snap elimination of price controls launched the German Wirtschaftswunder.