Alfred Müller-Armack was an economist and sociologist of religion.
Education
At the age of18, he began studying economics and philosophy at the universities of Giessen, Freiburg, Munich and finally Cologne, where he obtained his doctorate in 1923 with a thesis on "The crisis problem in theoretical welfare economics".
In 1926 Müller-Armack wrote his habilitation dissertation in Economics "Economic theory of Economic policy".
Career
In Köln, he was appointed Associate Professor in 1934. In 1938 Müller-Armack, first as an associate professor, at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University of Münster and received a professor of political economy and sociology of religion in 1940.
In 1950, he was Professor of Economics and director of the Institute for Economic Policy at the University of Köln. In addition, among other activities came as a member of the Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry of Economics and as a member of the Society for Economic and Social Sciences from 1947 to 1966.
His political career developed after the Second World War. First he became a consultant in the process of switching from Nazi Germany to a market-oriented economy. In 1952 he the Federal Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard appointed to head the economic policy department at the Ministry.
In addition to the social market economy Müller-Armack connects with issues of European policy. So he had. A decisive role in the drafting and conclusion of the Treaty of Rome in 1957 Müller-Armack earned a great reputation over the years in relation to the European Economic Community.
In 1963 retired Müller-Armack out of the federal public service.
Politics
Müller-Armack was an influential economist and member of the NSDAP (Nazi) party from 1933-1945, and was known to be uncompromising of Nazi philosphy in his book "idea of the state and economic order in the New Kingdom". With direct reference to Hitler's "Mein Kampf", Müller Armack wrote of Nazi ideology that the German nation is "unified in feeling and thinking, by blood and by soil".