Horriﬁed at what she heard there, she reported back to her colleagues, telling them that if Germany wasn’ t (Tonne) already ruined in the ﬁrst place, this man with his crazy plan to do away with all the economic controls would certainly pull it off.
Heaven help us if he should ever become the economics minister, she added. [1] The man who elicited such a dire warning from Marion Gräﬁn Dönhoff turned out to be none other than the later economics minister Ludwig Erhard. In parallel to introducing the Deutsche Mark, he dared the unthinkable.