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              hingegen…, in: ACSP, Fslg. FL 1949, no. 4; also the handouts Die Deutschen
              Wahlen vom 14. August 1949, in: ACSP, DS 3187 and Bundeswahlen und
              Wirtschaftspolitik, 17 July 1949, in: BayHStA, NL Hans Ehard, no. 685.
           165    Own calculations based on demography B15 (1950) and the study Die deutschen
              Vertriebenen in Zahlen Teil II – 40 Jahre Eingliederung in der Bundesrepublik
              Deutschland provided by the Statistisches Bundesamt (StBA), Wiesbaden.
           166    According to Rudolf Morsey, still in fall 1949 Konrad Adenauer was less well-
              known to the general public than his counterpart Kurt Schumacher; cf.
              comment by Rudolf Morsey, in: Pohl, H. (ed.), l.c., p. 68. Further, a survey by
              Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann a year earlier revealed that the German people
              considered the SPD chairman to be the more competent politician; cf. Noelle,
              E.; Neumann, E. P. (eds.), l.c., p. 193.
           167    Erhard in a public radio transmission, 6 June 1949, published in: Erhard, L.,
              l.c., 1992, p. 105.
           168    E.g. Art. 14 GG, in: BGBl. I.
           169    Art. 15, in: Ibid..
           170    Röpke, W., l.c., 1942, p. 131; Idem, l.c., 1949, p. 67; Böhm, F., l.c., 1933; Idem,
              l.c., 1937, pp. 101 ff. Similarly, later academic literature argued that the Social
              Market Economy was the only adequate economic system for a liberal
              democracy; cf. Gutmann, G.; Hochstrate, H.-J.; Schlüter, R., Die
              Wirtschaftsverfassung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Entwicklung und
              ordnungspolitische Grundlagen, Stuttgart, 1964; Papier, H.-J., Grundgesetz und
              Wirtschaftsordnung, in: Benda, E.; Maihofer, W.; Vogel, H.-J. (eds.), Handbuch des
              Verfassungsrechts der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin, 1983, pp. 609 ff.;
              Schockenhoff, V., Wirtschaftsverfassung und Grundgesetz. Die Auseinandersetzungen
              in den Verfassungsberatungen 1945-1949, doctoral thesis, Frankfurt am Main,
              1986. While few authors addressed the correlation between the economic and
              political order in examining the reconstruction of the German post-war
              economy, an in-depth analysis considering the mutual interdependence and
              interplay between Economic and Parliamentary Council is still missing.
           171    In this context, see also Gardner, J., l.c..
           172    Barbier, H. D., Die Freiheit als Sozialprogramm, in: FAZ, 1 Feb 1997, p. 13.
           173    N.B. the Social Market Economy was first constitutionally anchored in article
              1-3 para. 3 of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for the European Union
              signed in 2004.
           174    Weekly reports by the authorised agent of the CSU at the EC, 17 Jan to 3
              April and the notice no. 6, 7 May 1948, in: ACSP, NL Anton Besold, no. 57.
              See also minutes of the meeting about the coordination of the cooperation
              between Bavarian ministries and the Bizonal administration in the Bavarian
              Staatskanzlei on 26 April 1948, in: BayHStA, NL Hans Ehard, no. 1614.
           175    WB VV, l.c., p. 454.
           176    Ibid., 448.
           177    Notice Wohin gehört Prof. Erhard? by the chairman of the FDP in the British
              zone, Franz Blücher, n.d., in: Archiv desLiberalismus (ADL), NL Franz Blücher,
              D 2-1, no. II. See also the reminiscence of Everhard Bungartz Erinnerungen an
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