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 ...

(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 ...

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.

Troubles have been piling up for Ludwig Erhard ever since his Christian Democrats suffered a severe setback in July’s state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia. Critics inside and outside his own ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chancellor Ludwig Erhard indicated today that he did not intend to take action in the near future on establishing normal diplomatic relations between West Germany and Israel but he emphasized that he ...