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Wilhelm Röpke

1899 - 1966

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Wilhelm Röpke (10 October 1899 – 12 February 1966) was a German economist and social critic, best known as 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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Röpke has received more than 162,791 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Wilhelm Röpke is the 168th most popular economist (up from 200th in 2019), the 2,082nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,722nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 168 out of 315Before him are Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Piero Sraffa, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Paul Milgrom, Nicholas Kaldor, and Peter Diamond. After him are Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Oliver Hart, Thomas Piketty, Ben Bernanke, and Lionel Robbins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 89Before him are Veit Harlan, Hans Swarowsky, Wolf Messing, Lotte Reiniger, Nicolas Frantz, and Eugene Ormandy. After him are John Barbirolli, Marcel Dalio, Gustaf Gründgens, Benjamin Péret, Princess Antonia of Luxembourg, and Mart Stam. Among people deceased in 1966, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 71Before him are Amédée Ozenfant, Victor Brauner, Edmond Locard, Bai Chongxi, Caterina Albert, and Fritz Wunderlich. After him are Elena Stasova, Emil Brunner, Vladimir Minorsky, Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, and George Ohsawa.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 2,082 out of 6,142Before him are Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst (1679), C. W. Ceram (1915), Uli Jon Roth (1954), Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1284), Gustav Schwab (1792), and Wols (1913). After him are Bertha of Sulzbach (1110), Clemens Winkler (1838), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Philipp Veit (1793), Konrad von Thüringen (1206), and Wilhelm Ackermann (1896).

Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 19Before him are Adolph Wagner (1835), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Ernest Mandel (1923), Ernst Engel (1821), Gustav von Schmoller (1838), and Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949). After him are Walter Eucken (1891), Lujo Brentano (1844), Adam Müller (1779), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), E. F. Schumacher (1911), and Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805).