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common, adhesive stamps certifying payed membership fees. Erhard probably
joined the party not until 1962/63. The exact date is not documented and
there is no evidence neither in the Bundes-CDU, nor the Landesverband
Wuerttemberg-Baden, nor the Kreisverband Ulm nor in the ACDP. However, in
an interview in Jan 1962, Ludwig Erhard stated that he was not a member (cf.
Das Parlament, no. 21-22, 27 May 1988, p. 21). Other sources suggest that he
became a member of the CDU in conjunction with the taking over of the
party chairmanship in March 1966. On 5 March 1966, the public questioned
Erhard’s status and the Saarbrücker Zeitung published an article titled Muss
Erhard Parteibeiträge nachzahlen? In view of Ludwig Erhard’s engagement in
campaigns for the CDU, Adenauer in written form asked him to join the party
on 14 Feb 1966. However, Erhard did not attribute much importance to the
party membership. In connection with this, see also Ludwig Erhard soll nie
CDU-Mitglied gewesen sein, in: Der Spiegel online, 25 April 2007.
116 Wengst, U., Die CDU/CSU im Bundestagswahlkampf 1949, in: VfZ 34, no. 1,
Munich, 1986, p. 25.
117 Narr, W.-D., CDU-SPD. Programm und Praxis seit 1945, Stuttgart, 1966, p. 95;
Koerfer, D., l.c., p. 56; see also Laitenberger, V., Ludwig Erhard. Der
Nationalökonom als Politiker, Göttingen, 1986.
118 Fack, F. U., l.c., p. 15.
119 Erhard in a public audio transmission, 6 June 1949, published in: Erhard, L.,
l.c., 1992, p. 105.
120 E.g. speech given by Erhard during his stump tour throughout West
Germany, in: BA, 102, no. 9085.
121 Dreher, K., Der Weg zum Kanzler. Adenauers Griff nach der Macht, Düsseldorf/
Vienna, 1972, p. 225.
122 Hentschel, V., l.c., p. 107.
123 Böhm, F., Der Sprung in die Marktwirtschaft, in: Schröder, G.; Müller-Armack,
A.; Hohmann, K.; Gross, J.; Altmann, R. (eds.), l.c., 1972, p. 417.
124 Müller-Armack on Erhard, cited, in: Müller-Armack, A., l.c., 1971, p. 246.
125 Jeske, J., Die Marktwirtschaft – das war er, in: FAZ, 1 Feb 1997, p. 13.
126 Goldschmidt, N., l.c., 2004, p. 3.
127 Hentschel, V., l.c., p. 89. See also part II chapter 3 of this book, pp. 165
128 Götz, H. H., Er suchte kompetente Gesprächspartner, in: FAZ, 1 Feb 1997, p. 14.

Chapter 2

1 Friedrich Hölderlin cited in: Hayek, F. A. v., l.c., 1944, p. 18.
2 Documents on the Creation of the German Federal Constitution, edited by the
OMGUS, Civil Administration Division, Berlin, 1949, p. 86.

Chapter 2.1

1 Grebing, H., Neubau statt Wiederaufbau der SPD – Die Lehren aus der Weimarer
Republik, in: Dowe, D. (ed.), l.c., p. 76.