1899 - 1966
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, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 168 out of 315. Before 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.
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 162
1898 - 1983
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 163
1845 - 1926
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 164
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 165
1908 - 1986
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 166
1940 - Present
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 167
1899 - 1966
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 168
1715 - 1789
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 169
1903 - 1987
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 170
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 171
1971 - Present
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 172
1953 - Present
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 173
1898 - 1984
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 174
Among people born in 1899, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 89. Before 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 71. Before 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.
1899 - 1964
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 83
1899 - 1975
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 84
1899 - 1974
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 85
1899 - 1981
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 86
1899 - 1985
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 87
1899 - 1985
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 88
1899 - 1966
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 89
1899 - 1970
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 90
1899 - 1983
HPI: 55.06
Rank: 91
1899 - 1963
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 92
1899 - 1959
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 93
1899 - 1954
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 94
1899 - 1986
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 95
1886 - 1966
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 65
1903 - 1966
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 66
1877 - 1966
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 67
1893 - 1966
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 68
1869 - 1966
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 69
1930 - 1966
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 70
1899 - 1966
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 71
1873 - 1966
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 72
1889 - 1966
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 73
1877 - 1966
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 74
1882 - 1966
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 75
1899 - 1966
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 76
1893 - 1966
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 77
Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 2,082 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1679 - 1740
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 2,076
1915 - 1972
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 2,077
1954 - Present
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 2,078
1284 - 1356
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 2,079
1792 - 1850
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 2,080
1913 - 1951
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 2,081
1899 - 1966
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 2,082
1110 - 1159
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 2,083
1838 - 1904
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 2,084
1655 - 1707
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 2,085
1793 - 1877
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 2,086
1206 - 1240
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 2,087
1896 - 1962
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 2,088
Among economists born in Germany, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 19. Before 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).
1835 - 1917
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 13
1864 - 1943
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 14
1923 - 1995
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 15
1821 - 1896
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 16
1838 - 1917
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 17
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 18
1899 - 1966
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 19
1891 - 1950
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 20
1844 - 1931
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 21
1779 - 1829
HPI: 53.48
Rank: 22
1915 - 2012
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 23
1911 - 1977
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 24
1805 - 1875
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 25