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| party = [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|Christian Democratic Union]]{{efn|Erhard never formally joined the CDU and so was ''de jure'' an [[independent politician]]. However, Erhard spent his entire career with the CDU, and was believed to be a member by both the party and the public; his lack of party membership was not widely known until decades after his death.}}
| 1blankname = [[Vice-Chancellor of West Germany|Vice
| 1namedata = [[Erich Mende]]
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| chancellor2 = [[Konrad Adenauer]]
| predecessor2 = [[Franz Blücher]]
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==Minister of Economic Affairs==
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F004214-0033, Konrad Adenauer und Ludwig Erhard.jpg|thumb|[[Konrad Adenauer]] and Ludwig Erhard in 1956]]
In the [[1949 German federal election|first free elections]] of the federal parliament in September 1949, Erhard was elected in a [[Baden-Württemberg]] district as candidate of the Christian Democratic Union. He was appointed [[Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action|Federal Minister for Economic Affairs]], a position he would hold for the next 14 years; from 1957 to 1963 he was also the [[vice
A staunch believer in economic liberalism, Erhard joined the [[Mont Pelerin Society]] in 1950, and used this influential body of liberal economic and political thinkers to test his ideas for the reorganization of the West German economy. Some of the society's members were members of the Allied High Commission and Erhard was able to make his case directly to them. The Mont Pélerin Society welcomed Erhard because this gave its members a welcome opportunity to have their ideas tested in real life. [[Alfred Müller-Armack]], the secretary of state of Erhard's ministry, helped him guide German economy with theories until the beginning of 1960s.<ref name="cht">{{cite book |last1= Caciagli|first1=Mario |title=The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought |date=December 4, 2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781139053600 |page=179}}</ref>
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