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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