Though this man did serve as chancellor from 1963 to 1966, he is more famous for holding a position that he assumed after being the director of the economic council for the Anglo-U.S. occupation zone, in which capacity he promoted his program of the "social market system.
This man branded cartels "enemies of the consumer," and argued against the expansion of the welfare state in his book Prosperity Through Competition. A member of his nation's "Ordoliberal" political faction, this politician overcame the opposition of Gerhard Kreyssig to remove price controls in his nation, and in his highest post, he distinguished himself from his predecessor by removing from the ministry Hans Kruger, who had turned out to be a war criminal. Though this man did serve as chancellor from 1963 to 1966, he is more famous for holding a position that he assumed after being the director of the economic council for the Anglo-U.S. occupation zone, in which capacity he promoted his program of the "social market system." For ten points, identify this West German politician who as economic minister under Konrad Adenauer engineered his nation's so-called "economic miracle."
This man branded cartels "enemies of the consumer," and argued against the expansion of the welfare state in his book Prosperity Through Competition.
Ludwig {Erhard}