Talk:Ludwig Erhard

message: See http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/:CDU-Altkanzler-Ludwig-Erhard-Mitglied-CDU/587764.html (german) and others. There is a certain suspicion that Erhard never was a member of CDU. --Constructor 11:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The official CDU membership of Erhard is an open question for many years. The current discussion does seem more a "Loch Ness" debate.It can be .. but it cannot be too. Regarding the historic facts this story belongs more to the section "Trivia" --80.135.246.5 10:49, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  CDU party membership 

message: In the Economics Minister section it isn't explained that in Erhard's time Neoliberalism hadn't the same sense than today, being closer to Ordoliberalism/German Liberalism and it was neo in the same sense that Social liberalism was a new liberalism in relation to Classical liberalism. The Mont Perelin society broke into a Freiburg and an Austrian school faction which is why it included classical and neoliberals like Mises and Hayek.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.82.92.235 (talk) 13:19, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neoliberalism 

message: "Erhard believed the major world problems were soluble through free trade and the economic unity of Europe (as a prerequisite for political unification); he alienated French president Charles de Gaulle, who wanted the opposite." 
What does that mean?  Earlier in the Economics Minister section is says "He was deeply critical of a bureaucratic-institutional integration of Europe on the model of the European Coal and Steel Community."  It is contradictory.   The opposite of what did de Gaulle want? Supporting the economic and political unity of Europe is arguably the same as supporting the ECSC, which it says he strongly opposed.  This could all be a lot clearer.Wpalfreman (talk) 07:37, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chancellor, 1963-66 

message: There is no mention of the 1948 protests, unrest and general strike which are generally thought to have been a reaction to the high inflation and unemployment arising shortly after the introduction of the Deutschmark and removal of price controls (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Mark#Economics_of_1948_currency_reform or the German page on Erhard). This results in a severely biased presentation of Erhard's policies as an uninterrupted success story. Tdent (talk) 19:25, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  1948 economic problems and unrest 

message: He obviously had one, so which one was it? Was he elected from a constituency or on a state list? Lockesdonkey (talk) 18:14, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Initially he wasnt even member of a party when the Free_Democratic_Party_(Germany) proposed him as Minister of economics to Adenauer. He became member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany many years later but allegedly never payed his membership dues and according sources from the CDU itself it is not clear if he actually was member of the Christian Democratic Union. Nevertheless he was on the list as member of the German Parliament or Bundestag as direct candidate of the CDU in the city Ulm. --Kharon (talk) 09:12, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Erhard's seat in the Bundestag 

message: Erhard was Minister of Economics, not Minister of Finance. Yanis Varoufakis writes in his book titled And the weak suffer what they must? that Erhard was Adenauer's finance minister. Well, I guess I know which source Varoufakis used. ;-) --Zaunkoeniglich (talk) 18:44, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Erhard was Head of the ":de:Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft". There is a seperate ":de:Bundesministerium der Finanzen". These institutions did change their name, where put together to one and seperated again later in their history, as the government saw fit, but it actually did not change in Erhards time as Minister under Adenauer. Varoufakis has mixed it up obviously if he described it as you say. --Kharon (talk) 23:58, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minister of Economics, not Minister of Finance