For 70 years, Germany embodied postwar recovery – prosperous, stable and admired. Now, as exports falter, populism grows and ...

As Germany's minister of economic affairs from 1949 to 1963, Ludwig Erhard crafted the plan for West Germany's post-World War II economic recovery, sometimes called the German "economic miracle." Only ...

Ludwig Erhard’s stock has been going down faster than any glamor issue on the Big Board. Climbing living costs have tarnished his image as the creator of West Germany’s economic miracle. A sharp ...

(See Cover) It is hard to imagine a figure less martial than West Germany’s new Chancellor. Round of shape, soft in manner, sanguine in temperament, he is every one’s rich uncle, the man who made West ...

West German politics has been a queer mixture of weakly defined parties since the country's formation fourteen years ago. Konrad Adenauer maintained a continuity of policy only by clever political ...

EARLY in September rumors were coursing around Bonn’s corridors that the West German government of Professor Ludwig Erhard was in danger of falling. These rumors were at least in part the product of ...

In a moving tribute to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (“The Man Who Saved Europe the Last Time,” op-ed, April 29), Henry Kissinger credits Germany’s “astonishing [postwar] renewal” to Adenauer’s dual ...

Former Chancellor Ludwig Erhard will go to Israel at the end of next month for a “private” visit as a guest of the Israeli Government, it was announced here today. He will be accompanied by his wife.