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59 Röpke, W., Sozialismus in Deutschland?, in: NZZ, 12 April 1947; homonymous
document dated 22 July 1947, in: Deutsche Bundesbank, Historisches Archiv
(BuBa), B 331-HMS, no. 566, 569.
60 Heitzer, H., l.c., p. 507.
61 Letter Konrad Adenauer to Maurice W. Altaffer, 10 Aug 1947, in: Adenauer,
K., Briefe 1947-1949, edited by Hans Peter Mensing, Berlin, 1983, p. 44; letter
to Röpke, 12 July 1949, in: Adenauer, K., Briefe 1949-1951, edited by Hans
Peter Mensing, Berlin, 1984, p. 56.
62 Adenauer, K., Erinnerungen 1945-1953, Stuttgart, 1965, p. 337; letter to Semler,
15 Dec 1947, in: Adenauer, K., l.c., 1983, p.123.
63 Eschenburg, T., „Aus persönlichem Erleben: Zur Kurzfassung der Denkschrift
1943/44“ zur Kriegsschrift Ludwig Erhards „Kriegsfinanzierung und
Schuldenkonsolidierung“, Frankfurt am Main, 1977, pp. 15-21; Nicholls, A. J., l.c.,
1994; Hieronymi, O., Wilhelm Röpke, The Social Market Economy and Today’s
Domestic and International Order, in: Cahiers HEI 2002, no. 6, Colloque Wilhelm
Röpke (1899-1966), The Relevance of his Teaching Today: Globalization and the Social
Market Economy, Geneva, 2002.
64 Hentschel, V., l.c., pp. 77 f.
65 Initially, 37 scholars were invited. In the early 1950s, the society had around
200 members increasing to about 500 nowadays.
66 Erhard felt honoured by the invitation: letter to Eucken, 13 Feb 1950, in:
Ludwig-Erhard-Archiv (LEA), NL Ludwig Erhard, I. 4) 41.
67 Cockett, R., Thinking the Unthinkable – Think-Tanks and the Economic Counter-
Revolution 1931-1983, London, 1994, pp. 100-121.
68 Röpke, W., l.c., 1944, pp. 45, 76.

Chapter 1.3

1 Müller-Armack, A., Soziale Marktwirtschaft – Handwörterbuch der
Sozialwissenschaften, vol. 9, Göttingen, 1956, p. 249.
2 Müller-Armack, A., Wirtschaftslenkung und Marktwirtschaft, Hamburg, 1946, p.
88. Regarding the authorship of the Social Market Economy see also Franz
Böhm’s handwritten amendment to his drafted speech, n.d., p. 13, in: ACDP,
NL Franz Böhm, I-200-044/1. However, the question of the origins of the
term Soziale Marktwirtschaft is still controversial. In his autobiography Wahrheit
und Wirklichkeit. Der Weg aus den Weltkriegen in die Soziale Marktwirtschaft und eine
künftige Weltordnung, Homburg-Saarplatz, 1996, pp. 571 ff., Karl Günther
Weiss, academic assistant to the former permanent representative of the State
Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Economics, Otto Ohlendorf, argues, the
term ‘Social Market Economy’ was the outcome of a discussion with Ludwig
Erhard on 12 Jan 1945. There is also some evidence that Harold Rasch, who
in 1946/47 was deputy head of the inter-zonal economic administration in
Minden, used the term in late 1947 and early 1948 independently of Müller-
Armack (1901-1978); cf. Rasch, H., Grundlagen der Wirtschaftsverfassung, Bad
Godesberg, 1948.