death_date death_place birth_place school_tradition influences color contributions nationality institution field birth_date image article_title name alma_mater
12 february 1966 geneva , switzerland schwarmstedt , german empire ordoliberalism ludwig von mises darkgreen theoretical foundation of the german economic miracle german university of international studies of marburg , university of istanbul , institution economics , ethics 10 october 1899 wilhelm roepke.gif wilhelm röpke
 wilhelm röpke university of marburg
wilhelm röpke

wilhelm röpke -lrb- october 10 , 1899 -- february 12 , 1966 -rrb- 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 '' -lrb- compared to ordoliberalism , a more sociologically inclined variant of german neoliberalism -rrb- .
with alfred müller-armack and alexander rüstow -lrb- sociological neoliberalism -rrb- and walter eucken and franz böhm -lrb- ordoliberalism -rrb- 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 an historian .
