German chancellor Friedrich Merz meets Donald Trump in the White House for the first time. It might be the beginning of a ...

Noticeably absent is any discussion of his Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, who was responsible for Germany’s “economic miracle.” A year before Adenauer became chancellor, Erhard drew on ...

Only 17 at the outbreak of World War I, Ludwig Erhard came from modest circumstances in Bavaria. He attended school only to junior secondary level, and then entered a commercial apprenticeship at 16.

The German government wants to send asylum seekers back to Greece. Athens is opposed to such repatriation. Instead, it wants ...

Ludwig Erhard, the new Chancellor, finds neither political manuevering nor asserting his will very pleasant. But if he is going to change West German policy as much as he would like, he will have ...

Three names struck his fancy: physicist Werner Heisenberg, Bishop Hans Lilje and then-economics minister Ludwig Erhard. Ingenious. The folks back home would never think to come looking for Werner ...

Yet hardly had Ludwig Erhard settled into the Chancellor’s chair and lit his inevitable Brazilian Schwarze Weisheit (black wisdom) when he was faced with major military problems involving not ...

Logistics experts report uncertain times that are affecting business. They see international diversification as one solution ...

This was swiftly followed by the Ludwig Erhard Award, which he received this week from the German Chancellor in Fürth. The dissertation, which earned its 33 year-old writer a great deal of attention ...