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Wilhelm Röpke

1899 - 1966

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Wilhelm Röpke (German: [ˈʁœpkə]; 10 October 1899 – 12 February 1966) was a German economist and social critic, one of the spiritual fathers of the social market economy. A professor of economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul, and finally Geneva, Röpke theorised and collaborated to organise the post-World War II economic re-awakening of the war-wrecked German economy, deploying a program referred to as ordoliberalism, a more conservative variant of German liberalism. With Alfred Müller-Armack and Alexander Rüstow (sociological neoliberalism) and Walter Eucken and Franz Böhm (ordoliberalism) he elucidated the ideas, which then were introduced formally by Germany's post-World War II Minister for Economics Ludwig Erhard, operating under Konrad Adenauer's Chancellorship. Röpke and his colleagues' economic influence therefore is considered largely responsible for enabling Germany's post-World War II "economic miracle". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Röpke is the 181st most popular economist (down from 170th in 2019), the 2,345th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,185th in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 181 out of 414. Before him are Henry George, Jim Rogers, Oliver Hart, Piero Sraffa, Eli Heckscher, and János Kornai. After him are Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Myron Scholes, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Michel Camdessus, and Walter Eucken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 107. Before him are Konstantinos Tsatsos, Gustav Ucicky, Pavel Haas, Mart Stam, Haim Arlosoroff, and John Barbirolli. After him are Walter Lantz, Nie Rongzhen, Yaakov Dori, Wolf Messing, Benjamin Péret, and Lovro von Matačić. Among people deceased in 1966, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 76. Before him are Venceslau Brás, Hermann Scherchen, Fritz Wunderlich, Edmond Locard, Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, and Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Emil Brunner, Väinö Tanner, Bud Powell, Robert Rossen, Homi J. Bhabha, and Boris Podolsky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 2,346 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Heinrich Eberbach (1895), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Erich Mühsam (1878), Johannes Schöner (1477), and Antonio Rüdiger (1993). After him are Anna of Brandenburg (1487), Judith Kerr (1923), Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723), Uli Jon Roth (1954), Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764), and Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1667).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 20. Before him are Gottfried Feder (1883), Adolph Wagner (1835), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949), Gustav von Schmoller (1838), Ernest Mandel (1923), and Ernst Engel (1821). After him are Walter Eucken (1891), Lujo Brentano (1844), E. F. Schumacher (1911), Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), and Adam Müller (1779).

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