Wilhelm Röpke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wilhelm Röpke

German economist

Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1899

Place of Birth: Schwarmstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 12-Feb-1966

Profession: economist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Wilhelm Röpke (October 10, 1899 – February 12, 1966) was Professor of Economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul, and finally Geneva, Switzerland, and one of the spiritual fathers of the social market economy, theorising and collaborating to organise the post-World War II economic re-awakening of the war-wrecked German economy, deploying a program sometimes referred to as the sociological neoliberalism (compared to ordoliberalism, a more sociologically inclined 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".
Röpke was also a historian and was nominated to the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965.